An Experimental Study on the Characteristics of Moxa Combustion in the Moxa Cone size - On the Pattern of Combustion temperature -

애주(艾炷)의 형태별(形態別) 연소(燃燒) 특성(特性)에 대한 연구(?究) - 연소온도(燃燒溫度)의 유형(類型)을 중심(中心)으로 -

In order to consider the clinical efficacy of moxa combustion, understand the quality and quantity of heat stimulation and get the basic data for the development of electric moxibustion apparatus, the pattern of combustion temperature was measured by size of moxa(small, medium, large and maximum size). The results were as follows. 1. The pattern of combustion temperature by moxa burning was classified into input period, consisting of preheating and heating periods, and output period, consisting of heat retaining and cooling periods, in all experimental groups. But it was difficult to observe the preheating period in small sized moxa. 2. It was inclined that the more moxa size was large, the more the heating and heat retaining periods were long and the maximum temperature was high. The characteristics of moxa combustion is primarily by the rate of combustion temperature, gradient temperature and duration of combustion, and their correlation among these factors and their clinical effects in practice.