Medicated bath is one external application of traditional Chinese medicines
and it is to put certain Chinese medicines into water to achieve the purposes of
treating some diseases and building up physical strength while taking the bath.
This therapy is very comfortable and it causes no side effects or injuries to
the patients.
Action principle
With the aid of warm gas in medicines and medicinal soup, promote flow of
meridians and qi and blood, make pores open and acupoints unimpeded.
The medicines for full bath permeate into striae and meridians through pores
and acupoints, enter into viscera along meridians, disperse lung and open
orifice, warm kidney and strengthen yang. With such actions, they can restore
dispersing and descending of lung as well as steaming and transforming of
kidney, discharge toxic pathogen in meridians through sweat and in viscera
through urine.
Medication
Bath in the medicinal decoction made from medicines with discharging
function.
Cold should be treated with medicines that can warm kidney and strengthen
yang; Heat should be treated with medicines that can clear heat and eliminate
dampness; pain should be treated with medicines that can promote qi circulation
and relieve pain; Edema should be treated with medicines that can induce
diuresis for removing edema.
Precautions
Pay attention to water temperature to avoid scald. Diabetic patients whose
skin sense of warm and pain is not sensitive should be more cautious.
Patients with high, low or unstable blood pressure should be treated under
particular circumstances.
This therapy is contraindicated in pregnant women.
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