Moxibustion is an effective means of enhancing the body’s resistance. No physician, no tonic medicine can achieve such an effect. The substances produced in the skin after a mild burn are known in technical terms as heteroproteins—abnormal proteins that, if absorbed in excess, can easily trigger allergic reactions or illness. However, small amounts of heteroproteins can function as antibodies within the body. Diseases such as smallpox and chickenpox are contracted only once in a lifetime precisely because the body produces heteroproteins in response. (Antibody).

Place the moxa stick on the skin and heat it to At around 60°C, the skin will suffer mild burns; as the damaged cells break down, they release specific foreign proteins into the body. Once absorbed by the bloodstream and circulated throughout the body, these foreign proteins can help strengthen weakened cells and promote cellular regeneration, thereby enhancing the body’s immune defenses.