Microneedle moxibustion device

Abstract

The present invention provides a microneedle moxibustion device comprising a microneedle layer, a skin-attaching layer and a moxibustion material layer, wherein the microneedle layer and the moxibustion material layer are respectively located on two sides of the skin-attaching layer that are arranged opposite to each other, a plurality of microneedles are arranged on the side of the microneedle layer away from the skin-attaching layer, and the moxibustion material layer comprises a combustible material; with the above structure, when the skin-attaching layer is attached to human skin, the microneedles on the microneedle layer penetrate into the human skin layer, causing slight damage to the human skin, without causing skin bleeding, and bringing painlessness to the human body, thereby reducing the patient's pain level; and the moxibustion material layer of another layer of the attachment layer contains a combustible material, and the heat and light produced by burning the combustible material stimulate the human acupuncture points or specific parts, and adjust the disordered physiological and biochemical functions of the human body by stimulating the activity of meridian qi, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing and curing diseases, and the inflammatory effect caused by the microneedle insertion and the stimulating effect of moxibustion are superimposed on each other, effectively filling the defect of indirect moxibustion lacking moxibustion-induced inflammation.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicine treatment equipment, and in particular to a micro-needle moxibustion device. Background Art

[0002] Classical moxibustion involves placing moxa directly on the skin at acupuncture points, igniting and burning, creating "moxibustion scars." This direct application requires repeated application to ensure the scars reach a certain level. Because moxibustion directly affects the skin, causing surface trauma, it is also known as scarring. The therapeutic principle of moxibustion is as Sun Simiao observed: "To keep the body at ease, do not dry out the Zusanli acupoint." This requires continuous moxibustion at the Zusanli acupoint to maintain normal secretions. In other words, moxibustion creates direct bioenergetic and physical trauma, triggering a relatively long-lasting acute and chronic inflammatory stress process. This in turn triggers a series of extensive and profound changes in the neuroendocrine and immune networks, placing the body in a state of high alert, significantly enhancing immunity and preventing disease. However, classical moxibustion can be quite painful for patients, making it difficult for them to tolerate it.

[0003] It was not until the early 1950s that indirect moxibustion (mild moxibustion) appeared to reduce the pain of patients. In recent years, improved indirect moxibustion such as grain moxibustion has gradually appeared. Although indirect moxibustion does not cause moxibustion wounds, the stimulation is mild, the moxibustion sensation is maintained, and the burning pain is greatly reduced, but the long-term continuous inflammatory special stress response of the inflammatory stress response of "moxibustion wounds" is lacking, which greatly reduces its therapeutic effect. Summary of the Invention

[0004] The main purpose of the present invention is to provide a micro-needle moxibustion device for achieving indirect moxibustion that can cause trauma.

[0005] In order to achieve the above-mentioned main purpose, the microneedle moxibustion device provided by the present invention includes a microneedle layer, a skin-attaching layer and a moxibustion material layer. The microneedle layer and the moxibustion material layer are respectively located on two sides of the skin-attaching layer that are arranged opposite to each other. Multiple microneedles are arranged on the side of the microneedle layer away from the skin-attaching layer, and the moxibustion material layer includes a combustible material.

[0006] It can be seen from the above scheme that the microneedle moxibustion device includes a microneedle layer and a moxibustion material layer. When the skin-attaching layer is attached to the human skin, the microneedles on the microneedle layer penetrate into the human skin layer, causing slight damage to the human skin. It will not cause skin bleeding, but it can trigger the body's stress response, making the body in a high-level alert state of high vigilance, thereby significantly enhancing immunity, but bringing painlessness to the human body and reducing the patient's pain level; the moxibustion material layer of the other layer of the attachment layer contains combustibles, which stimulate the human body's acupuncture points or specific parts through the heat and light produced by burning the combustibles, and adjust the disordered physiological and biochemical functions of the human body by stimulating the activity of meridian qi, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing and curing diseases. The inflammatory effect caused by the microneedle insertion and the stimulating effect of moxibustion superimpose on each other, effectively filling the defect of indirect moxibustion lacking invasive inflammation.

[0007] A further solution is that the microneedles are hollow microneedles, and essence hydrogel is arranged inside the microneedles.

[0008] In a further embodiment, the essence hydrogel may include at least one of mugwort extract, polyphenols, Blumea balsamifera extract, and safflower extract.

[0009] It can be seen that the hollow microneedle is equipped with essence hydrogel. The essence hydrogel can be extracted from various plants. After the microneedle penetrates the human skin layer, the substance in the microneedle enters the body under the pressure of the concentration gradient of the human tissue fluid, realizing substance delivery, completing the delivery of medicine to the human body, and igniting the combustible material of the moxibustion layer above, combining with the microneedle to stimulate the human body, effectively improving the effect of moxibustion.

[0010] A further solution is that the microneedle moxibustion device includes a filtering biomembrane, which is arranged between the skin-applying layer and the moxibustion material layer, and has a plurality of filtering holes formed in the filtering biomembrane.

[0011] It can be seen that the filtering biofilm can microfilter harmful particles in the smoke produced by moxibustion, increase the focus of infrared light, and improve the moxibustion sensation during the moxibustion process.

[0012] A further solution is that the area of the moxibustion layer on the side close to the filtering biomembrane is smaller than the area of the filtering biomembrane.

[0013] It can be seen that the area of the filtering biofilm is larger than the area of one side of the moxibustion layer in order to more effectively absorb and filter the harmful particles in the smoke produced by moxibustion.

[0014] In a further embodiment, the filtering biofilm includes mugwort fibers, linalool fibers, kudzu fibers and pine wood pulp fibers.

[0015] A further solution is that the microneedle moxibustion device includes a light focusing component, which is arranged between the moxibustion material layer and the skin-adhering layer.

[0016] It can be seen that the light focusing component can focus infrared rays and reflect light of other wavelengths, thereby strengthening the light at the moxibustion site, superimposing it with the heat and light generated at the moxibustion site, and thus enhancing the effect of moxibustion.

[0017] A further solution is that the height of the moxibustion layer is 0.5 cm to 3 cm.

[0018] A further solution is that the shape of the moxibustion material layer is conical.

[0019] It can be seen that the volume of the conical moxibustion layer is smaller than that of the cylindrical moxibustion layer, but the heat generated by the combustion is more concentrated and closer to the skin, making the moxibustion effect on the skin better.

[0020] A further solution is that the skin-applying layer and the moxibustion material layer are bonded with ginger cellulose.

[0021] It can be seen that cellulose has adhesive properties. By using cellulose to complete the bonding between the layers of materials, the intervention of other harmful chemicals can be reduced, making the final product more environmentally friendly. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0022] Figure 1 It is a stereoscopic diagram of an embodiment of the microneedle moxibustion device of the present invention.

[0023] Figure 2 It is an exploded view of an embodiment of the microneedle moxibustion device of the present invention.

[0024] The present invention will be further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0025] The microneedle moxibustion device of the present invention is used in traditional Chinese medicine treatment. The microneedle moxibustion device includes a combination of at least two treatment methods, namely microneedles and moxibustion. The microneedles penetrate the skin, causing trauma to the skin and causing the body to produce a stress response. At the same time, moxibustion stimulates the human body, so that the inflammatory effect caused by the microneedle penetration and the stimulating effect of moxibustion are superimposed on each other, which can enhance the therapeutic effect of moxibustion and effectively fill the defect of indirect moxibustion in lacking moxibustion-induced inflammation.

[0026] See also Figure 1 and Figure 2 The microneedle moxibustion device includes a microneedle layer 1, a skin-attaching layer 2, a filtering biomembrane 3, a light-converging component 4 and a moxibustion layer 5. The microneedle layer 1, the skin-attaching layer 2, the filtering biomembrane 3, the light-converging component 4 and the moxibustion layer 5 are arranged in sequence from bottom to top, so that the microneedle layer 1 and the moxibustion layer 5 are respectively located on two sides of the skin-attaching layer 2 that are arranged opposite to each other. In this embodiment, the skin-attaching layer 2 is arranged between the microneedle layer 1 and the filtering biomembrane 3, the filtering biomembrane 3 is bonded between the skin-attaching layer 2 and the light-converging component 4, and the light-converging component 4 is bonded between the filtering biomembrane 3 and the moxibustion layer 5.

[0027] The microneedle layer 1 can be a microneedle patch. A plurality of microneedles 11 are arranged on the side of the microneedle patch 1 facing away from the skin-applying layer 2. The microneedles can be prepared based on biomaterials such as hydrogels. Such hydrogel biomaterials may include HAMA, GelMA, and HA. The adhesive patch on the microneedle patch 1 can be circular or rectangular. Microneedle therapy is a medical technology that uses a fine needle-like instrument to implement mechanical or physical minimally invasive damage stimulation on the skin soft tissue to obtain treatment. It can be accompanied by the synchronous or step-by-step administration of drugs or functional ingredients, with the help of microneedles to increase their transdermal or absorption rate and enhance the therapeutic efficacy. The principle of microneedle 11 administering drugs or functional ingredients is as follows: the drug is pre-loaded in the hollow needle cavity of the microneedle 11. After the hollow needle tip penetrates the skin, the drug enters the body driven by the pressure of the tissue fluid concentration gradient to achieve drug delivery. In this embodiment, the microneedles 11 can be hollow microneedles. Microneedles 11 may not contain any drugs or active ingredients. The stimulation of the microneedles 11 alone causes minimally invasive stimulation to the human body, resulting in "moxibustion wounds" on the skin when the moxibustion layer 5 is burned, enhancing the efficacy of indirect moxibustion. The microneedles 11 may also contain drugs or active ingredients. In this embodiment, the microneedles 11 contain an essence hydrogel. The essence hydrogel may include at least one of mugwort extract, polyphenols, linalool extract, or safflower extract. When micro- and nano-active ingredients such as mugwort plant flavonoids and polyphenols are infused into the hollow microneedles, the chemical damage is amplified in addition to the physical micropuncture of the microneedles, synergistically stimulating inflammation. Alternatively, extracts from Asteraceae plants such as mugwort, linalool, and safflower can be made into micro- and nano-essences, which can then be directly prepared into a hydrogel. Alternatively, the essence can be first prepared into liposomes, and then the hydrogel is prepared using the liposomal structure. The presence of the active pharmaceutical ingredients in the hydrogel in liposomal form increases the lipid solubility of the active pharmaceutical ingredients, leading to faster absorption.

[0028] In this embodiment, the skin-adhesive layer 2 is a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape 2, and the microneedle patch 1 is adhered to the side of the skin-adhesive layer 2 that contacts human skin.

[0029] On the side facing away from the skin-applying layer 2, a filtering biomembrane 3 is bonded using mugwort cellulose. This filtering biomembrane 3 is provided with numerous pores to microfilter harmful particulate matter from the smoke produced by moxibustion. This filtering biomembrane 3 also increases the focus of infrared light, improving the sensation during moxibustion. The filtering biomembrane 3 in this embodiment comprises mugwort fibers, mugwort balm fibers, kudzu root fibers, and pinewood pulp fibers. It utilizes the active composite fiber membrane described in Chinese invention patent publication number CN13576900A, entitled "Active Composite Fiber Membrane Material for Moxibustion Spacer."

[0030] A light-focusing element 4 is disposed between the moxibustion layer 5 and the skin-applying layer 2. In this embodiment, the light-focusing element 4 is a Fresnel lens 4. The Fresnel lens 4 focuses infrared light and refracts light of other wavelengths, thereby intensifying the light at the moxibustion site. This light, combined with the heat and light generated by the moxibustion site, further enhances the moxibustion effect. In this embodiment, when the microneedle patch 1 is positioned at the bottom and the microneedle moxibustion device is placed vertically, the vertical area of the light-focusing element 4 is larger than the area of the filter biofilm 3.

[0031] The moxibustion material layer 5 includes a combustible material. In this embodiment, the moxibustion material layer 5 is a moxa stick 5, approximately the size of a grain of wheat. In this embodiment, the height of the moxa stick 5 ranges from 0.5 cm to 3 cm, and preferably, from 1 cm to 2 cm. The moxibustion material layer 5 is conical in shape. A conical moxibustion material layer 5 is smaller in volume than a cylindrical moxibustion material layer 5, but the heat generated by combustion is more concentrated and closer to the skin, resulting in a more effective moxibustion effect. The area of the moxibustion material layer 5 on the side closest to the filtration biomembrane 3 is smaller than that of the filtration biomembrane 3, more effectively absorbing and filtering harmful particles from the smoke generated by moxibustion. The area of the moxibustion material layer 5 on the side closest to the light focusing element 4 is smaller than that of the light focusing element 4. In this embodiment, adjacent layers of the microneedle moxibustion device are bonded together using cellulose. This inherent adhesiveness of the cellulose allows for bonding between the layers, reducing the presence of other harmful chemicals and making the final product more environmentally friendly. In this embodiment, a hollow portion is further provided in the moxa stick 5, so that the moxa stick 5 forms a hollow body. When the hollow moxa stick 5 burns to the hollow portion, the moxa stick 5 burns around the hollow portion, so that the moxa stick 5 burns faster.

[0032] The microneedle moxibustion device includes a microneedle layer 1 and a moxibustion material layer 5. When the skin-attaching layer 2 is attached to the human skin, the microneedles 11 on the microneedle layer 1 penetrate into the human skin layer, causing slight damage to the human skin. It will not cause bleeding, but it can trigger a stress response in the body, making the body in a high-level alert state of high vigilance, thereby significantly improving immunity, but bringing painlessness to the human body and reducing the patient's pain level; the moxibustion material layer 5 on the other layer of the skin-attaching layer 2 contains a combustible material. The heat and light produced by burning the combustible material stimulate the acupuncture points or specific parts of the human body, and adjust the human body by stimulating the activity of the meridians. The disordered physiological and biochemical functions of the body are alleviated, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing and curing diseases. The inflammatory effect caused by microneedle insertion interacts with the stimulating effect of moxibustion, effectively filling the defect of indirect moxibustion in the absence of invasive inflammation. The microneedle moxibustion device also includes a filtering biofilm 3 and a light focusing component 4. When the microneedle 11 penetrates the skin, it ignites the wheat-grain open flame moxa stick 5 of the upper connected structure. Through the filtration of the filtering biofilm 3, the burning products of the moxa are helped to enter the subcutaneous layer, forming a combination of inflammatory and stimulating effects. Moreover, the drugs or effective ingredients in the microneedle 11 are quickly released to the subcutaneous layer under the stimulation of moxibustion heat, and even reach deeper tissue depths. In addition, the filtering biofilm 3 and the light focusing component 4 can both achieve infrared light focusing, thereby increasing the light intensity at the moxibustion site under the combined superposition of the filtering biofilm 3 and the light focusing component 4, thereby enhancing the moxibustion effect.

[0033] Finally, it should be emphasized that the above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention. For those skilled in the art, the present invention may have various changes and modifications. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention should be included in the scope of protection of the present invention.

Claims

1. A microneedle moxibustion device, characterized in that: include: A microneedle layer, a skin-attaching layer, and a moxibustion layer, wherein the microneedle layer and the moxibustion layer are respectively located on opposite sides of the skin-attaching layer, and a plurality of microneedles are arranged on the side of the microneedle layer away from the skin-attaching layer, and the moxibustion layer includes a combustible material; The microneedle is a hollow microneedle, and an essence hydrogel is provided inside the microneedle; The micro-needle moxibustion device includes a filtering biomembrane, which is arranged between the skin-applying layer and the moxibustion material layer, and has a plurality of filtering holes formed in the filtering biomembrane.

2. The microneedle moxibustion device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The essence hydrogel may include at least one of mugwort extract, polyphenols, Blumea balsamifera extract, and safflower extract.

3. The microneedle moxibustion device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The area of the moxibustion material layer on a side close to the filtering biomembrane is smaller than the area of the filtering biomembrane.

4. The microneedle moxibustion device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The filtering biofilm comprises mugwort fiber, linalool fiber, kudzu root fiber and pine knot wood pulp fiber.

5. The microneedle moxibustion device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The micro-needle moxibustion device includes a light focusing component, which is arranged between the moxibustion material layer and the skin-adhering layer.

6. The microneedle moxibustion device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The height of the moxibustion material layer is 0.5 cm to 3 cm.

7. The microneedle moxibustion device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The moxibustion material layer is in a cone shape.

8. The microneedle moxibustion device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that: The skin-attaching layer and the moxibustion material layer are bonded by using ginger cellulose.

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