To provide theoretical basis for the classification of medicinal moxibustion(藥灸劑) in Health Insurance Medical Benefit in Korea through investigating trend of judicial precedents on indirect moxibustion and usage of medicinal moxibustion in 『Donguibogam』.
Methods:
We analyzed statistical data of moxibustion from Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service and National Health Insurance Statistical Yearbook. We investigated major judicial precedents on indirect moxibustion to find out some trend and we searched the usages of medicinal moxibustion in 『ZhenJiuDaCheng』 and 『Donguibogam』.
Results:
According to recent judicial precedents, indirect moxibustion with equipment is no loner regarded as Korean Medical Procedure. In composition of ‘Oriental Health Treatment’, amount for acupuncture has gradually decreased instead, amount for moxibustion has increased steadily for 5 years. Medicinal moxibustion(藥灸劑) is often used as a form of indirect medicinal moxibustion with moxa in 『Donguibogam』. Argyi Folium, Moschus, Natrii Chloridium, Radix Preparata, Realgar and Olibanum are most frequently used for medicinal moxibustion in 『Donguibogam』. Medicinal moxibustions are composed of simple prescription or herb-pair or multiple prescription in 『Donguibogam』.
Conclusions:
In Health Insurance Medical Benefit in Korea, under the division of moxibustion, direct medicinal moxibustion and indirect medicinal moxibustion should be classified in addition.
Fill the navel with one portion of the drugs and five pun of Moschus powder. Fill the area inside flour dough with another portion of the drugs and press it to make the dough become firm. Make a few holes in the center. Place one piece of Sophorae Fructus (槐皮) to cover the drugs and apply moxa with mugwort.
External bodily elements·Navel (外形篇·臍)
Training the Navel to Lengthen Lifespan / Minor Secret Prescription to Welcome Life by Smoking the Umbilicus (小接命熏臍秘方)
Knead buckwheat powder with water and make a mass slightly bigger than one chon if the navel is big. Insert the powder of the drugs into the mass and put it on the navel. Cover this with one piece of Sophorae Fructus (槐皮) and apply moxa as big as a bean.
External bodily elements·Navel (外形篇·臍)
The navel should be warmed / Warm the Umblicus for Fertility Prescription (溫臍種子方)
Powder these drugs. Soften buckwheat powder with water into dough and make it long. Put this around the navel and fill the navel with the drugs. Apply moxa on the drugs.
External bodily elements·Foot (外形篇·足)
Waist and legs swell up and urine doesn’t come out (腰脚腫 小便不通)
Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparat a (附子)
Mix Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata powder with saliva and after sticking it on KI1(湧泉穴), apply moxibution with mugwort to lower the heat.
External bodily elements·Anus (外形篇·後陰)
Hemorrhoid sore (痔瘡)
Dirt from one’s head(頭垢), Garlic (蒜) Artemisiae Argyi Folium (艾葉)
Make a rice cake with dirt from one’s head, put it on the edges of the hemorrhoids, put pieces of garlic and burn moxa with Artemisiae Argyi Folium.
Paste Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata powder with saliva and make a rice cake with it. Put above the hemorroids and burn moxa with Artemisiae Argyi Folium.
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