Pure moxa sticks: ordinary moxa sticks, made from pure moxa velvet.

Medicine moxa stick: Actually, it is not the invention of our modern people. It has existed in ancient times, also known as thunder-fire moxibustion.

Besides wormwood, its main ingredients include some other substances, such as traditional Chinese medicine such as Chuanxiong, safflower and mint. It will add different traditional Chinese medicine and wormwood to mix according to different diseases, which will play a role of disease control.

The quality of moxa sticks can be comprehensively judged from the following 9 aspects:

1. Look at the color of mohair

The good wormwood is earthy yellow with a small amount of green and black stalks with fine particles.

The inferior wormwood is cyan and cyan black, and the stalks are very large and many.

2. Smell the smell of wormwood

The smell of good quality wormwood is fragrant and light, not pungent. The smell of poor quality wormwood is strong and pungent, and the smell of worse wormwood is also musty.

3. Feel the texture of mohair

Good mohair feels soft and delicate, while poor mohair feels rough.

Good moxa velvet is easy to hold together. Even if you tear off the wrapping paper, it will not completely fall apart.

The poor wormwood will scatter as soon as the wrapping paper is torn off.

4. Feel the fire during moxibustion

Good moxa sticks have soft fire and strong penetration.

Poor moxa sticks are strong, weak in penetration and prone to burning.

It depends on how moxibustion feels, which is real.

5. Look at the burning speed

Because the moxa with high proportion is fine and fluffy, the impurities of moxa with low proportion are much less, so the burning speed of moxa with high proportion is faster than that of moxa with low proportion.

6. Ash after burning moxa sticks

The ash after burning of good quality moxa sticks is grayish white, which feels fine and smooth, and is not easy to scatter, while the ash after burning of poor quality moxa sticks is dark gray, which is scattered everywhere, and feels rough and granular.

7. Color and aging of wormwood

The moxa stick is made of wormwood rolls after being crushed and screened over and over again.

What should be noted is that the wormwood in that year is green in color and strong in flavor, so the wormwood extracted from wormwood in that year is also green in color, black in color and strong in flavor.

After more than one year of storage, wormwood gradually turns from green to yellow, which is called wormwood.

The moxa velvet extracted by Chen Ai is yellow in color, and only contains a small amount of turquoise and black petiole fiber particles.

So, when you buy moxa sticks that are said to be 3 years old, 5 years old, or 7 years old from a certain merchant, when you receive the goods, the color is green or black, it must be the same year's moxa, not the old one.

8. Purity and proportion of wormwood

The meaning of the proportion of mohair, such as 10:1.

10:1 refers to the extraction of 1 kg of wormwood wool from 10 kg of wormwood leaves. This ratio is an indicator of the fineness of wormwood wool and an important factor of the quality of wormwood wool.

9. The higher the proportion, the finer the mohair

The higher the proportion of wormwood, the lighter the smoke, the milder the firepower, the better the penetration, and no damage to the meridians,

In addition, the ash is not easy to fall when burning, and there is no danger of falling sparks and scalding.

However, the lower the proportion of the impurities contained in the wormwood, the more the stalk particles, the greater the smoke during combustion, the drier the firepower, and the worse the penetration. During combustion, there will be deflagration, and sparks and wormwood ash will fall everywhere, which is easy to burn people.