Moxibustion therapy has been used in East Asian medicine for more than a thousand years. However, there are some problems\r\nassociated with this therapy in clinical practice. These problems include lack of control over the treatment temperature, emission of\r\nsmoke, and uneven temperature distribution over the treatment region. In order to resolve these problems, we developed a precise\r\ntemperature-control device for use as an alternate for conventional moxibustion therapy. In this paper, we describe the treatment of\r\na single patient with paralytic ileus that was treated with moxibustion.We also describe an evaluation of temperature distribution\r\non the skin surface after moxibustion therapy, the development of a heat-transfer control device (HTCD), an evaluation of the\r\nHTCD, and the clinical effects of treatment using the HTCD. The HTCD we developed can heat the skin of the treatment region\r\nuniformly, and its effect may be equivalent to conventional moxibustion, without the emission of smoke and smell. This device\r\ncan be used to treat ileus, abdominal pain, and coldness of abdomen in place of conventional moxibustion in modern hospitals.
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