Moxa-ironing therapy is a kind of external method in Traditional Chinese Medicine with a long history and has been noted highly by those famous physicians of past ages for thousands of years. However, traditional moxa-ironing therapy owns some shortcomings, for example, the heating method is backward, and even in modern society, power could be cut off or it could not be used in the area or in the occasion without power supply. In addition, electric wire could be somewhat troublemaker. When moxa stick bums, smoke will spread so as to give stimuli to the eyes and nose and pollute the environment. It is also inconvenient and inefficient for it has to be held by the practitioner in hand. Hualun Medicinal Moxibustion combines traditional moxibustion therapy with modern infrared physiotherapy, in which fire is replaced by electriic heat and energy is also stored. Therefore, during the treatment, power source is unnecessary so it is safe, portable and small-sized without any trouble of wire. It won the golden price in the First International Contest on Achievements of Traditional Chinese Medicine in America in l994.

Duoke Automatic Heating Plaster can give out heat automatically without necessary use of electricity. The heat can last longer for over l2 hours. It also possesses the actions of infrared TDP physiotherapy, and the irradiation board, Which is soft in quality can attach to the skin closely so as to Strengthen the absorption of medicine through the skin. The infrared wavelength is set between 9-l l (m, which is just the peak wavelength to produce the best resonance absorption for
　　 the body). Compound medicinal powder is mixed with heat- generating substance. The plaster is small in size with each one weighing only 25g, so it is quite easy and convenient to carry.

Since the coming out of Huatuo Medicinal Moxibustion and Duoke Automatic Heating Plaster, one hundred thousand apparatuses and plasters have already entered thousands of families and been used to treat diseases for l0 millions of person-time. It combines moxa-ironing therapy of TCM with thousands of years of history with medicinal steaming and penetrating, absorbing through skin and modern physiotherapy. It is of great innovation of moxa-ironing therapy of TCM, a new breakthrough of modem TDP physiotherapy, a significant beginning of integrated medicinal therapy with physiotherapy. It also makes infrared TDP become smaller in size, new in design and convenient in use. It is safe with assured therapeutic effect.

　　By Wu Jilun, Chen denbin & Jing Anling
　　Hualun Medical Equipment Co. Ltd. Chongqing 630000, China