moxa/expelling demons

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Hi All,

 

Thanks for sharing your experience with burning moxa off the body, and also for

the link to your incense site.

 

Brian, there are these smallish machines they make for smokers, that suck the

smoke into them and clean the air up; I put one under the treatment table and

turn it on when I'm doing moxa treatments because I agree we shouldn't be

breathing it (or anything) all the time. Works really well, costs about $100 or

less, and is pretty quiet.

 

But the effects my patients have been getting for emotional disturbance as I

described in my first letter can't be explained away with your explanations. As

it happens, I know both patients very well; neither of them would fall for the

mood-making effect, in fact, just the opposite; and the patient who is grieving

the loss of her partner - it hasn't been long enough for time to heal that

wound, nor is it healed; she gets in pretty desperate straits still from time to

time, and the moxa is still the only thing that's helping when she gets there.

 

It really is a medicinal effect, and smoke is a traditional way to ingest

medicine. Why moxa particularly bothers you (and other people) is one of those

mysteries... taking a medicine that your body doesn't need isn't good for us;

too much is too much and for the practitioner, it often is too much in a small

closed space; you might just have that reaction to moxa, the way raw onion

immediately gives me a sore throat and pain behind my eyes for about 2 hours

after I eat any. I assume an allergic reaction.

 

---deb marshall

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " Deb Marshall "

<taichideb wrote:

>

> Hi All,

>

> Thanks for sharing your experience with burning moxa off the body,

and also for the link to your incense site.

>

> Brian, there are these smallish machines they make for smokers, that

suck the smoke into them and clean the air up; I put one under the

treatment table and turn it on when I'm doing moxa treatments because

I agree we shouldn't be breathing it (or anything) all the time. Works

really well, costs about $100 or less, and is pretty quiet.

>

I have been using a Nederman product for a few months now and I am

VERY happy with it. I have the FX75 with some an additional hood,

viewable in their catalogue

http://www.nederman.com/upload/nederman_hq.pdf on page 62-64.

85% of the moxa smoke gets sucked up in the hood and no irritation

for the patients or me. I also used to get red eyes etc from moxa

smoke, but not anymore. Check it out, it really works.

 

Tom.