Moxibustion, as a traditional Chinese medical therapy with a history of thousands of years, is widely used in regulating the body and preventing and treating diseases. Moxa sticks, as the core consumables for moxibustion, their quality directly affects the effect and experience of moxibustion. When purchasing moxa sticks, you can consider the following aspects.

1、The color of moxa sticks

2、The overall texture of moxa sticks and the reasons behind it

3、The color of the smoke when moxa sticks burn and the reasons behind it

Form color of moxa sticks

Generally, high-quality moxa sticks have moxa wool that is usually yellowish-brown to golden yellow.

Texture

From the appearance and texture of moxa sticks, high-quality moxa sticks should be overall firm and not loose. This is because high-quality moxa wool is made through multiple processes of repeated screening and pounding, with a large amount of impurities removed, leaving moxa leaf fibers with high purity. Moxa wool with high purity has better connectivity between fibers, which are closely intertwined, just like a tightly woven fabric, which can maintain a good morphological structure, making the moxa sticks firm and not easy to loose.

Form color of the smoke

In terms of the performance of moxa sticks after burning, good moxa sticks produce light white moxa smoke, without a strong pungent smell, and the firepower is gentle. Such moxa sticks can make people more comfortable during moxibustion and reduce the irritation of smoke to the respiratory tract, etc. Then why can the quality of moxa sticks be judged by the smoke?

This is because in the production process of moxa sticks, multiple processes are carried out to repeatedly screen out impurities, branches and leaves, etc., resulting in high purity. High purity means that when burning, there are few other substances except the effective components of moxa leaf，so the combustion is relatively full and uniform, and the smoke contains few impurities, so the color of moxa smoke is light white. Inferior moxa sticks, on the other hand, contain more impurities, so they produce a lot of black smoke and a pungent smell when burned.

Choosing good moxa sticks can not only ensure the effect of moxibustion but also make the moxibustion process safer and more comfortable.