title: [Development and usage of the convenient moxa cone maker].
abstract: Moxibustion therapy is a non-invasive and natural therapy that is accepted by modern society with advantages of effectiveness and low-cost. However, the traditional process of producing hand-made moxa cone is time consuming, complicated, inefficient and difficult for mass production. Consequently, it hardly meets the clinical demands. This seriously reduces the popularization and promotion of traditional therapy with moxa cone. To deal with this problem, a new type of convenient moxa cone maker, which can easily and quickly produce multi-model moxa cones in mass production with constant specifications and uniform density. The mass production process is saving in material and low cost with high production efficiency. Application of the convenient moxa cone maker meets the needs of moxa cone in the clinical and scientific research and contributes to the popularization and promotion of traditional therapy with moxa cone.
authors.affiliation: College of Acupuncture and Massage, Henan University of TCM, Zhengzhou 450008, China. zhshj0406@sina.com
authors.forename: Shu-jun
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wei-qi
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Guang-ling
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xiao-min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Xiang-zhuan
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Ming-rui
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*