1, the formula varies from person to person.
Honghua Huoxue Tongluo, Artemisia argyi Qufeng Huoxue, Chrysanthemum Qinggan Mingmu. Usually, we can choose traditional Chinese medicine with relevant efficacy to take a bath according to different physical conditions or different health care purposes.
Artemisia argyi and safflower take a bath to relieve fatigue: urbanites are busy with life and work pressure, and often feel tired easily. At this time, you might as well take a bath in the bathtub with 30 grams of Artemisia argyi and 30 grams of safflower, which can relax muscles and collaterals and quickly eliminate fatigue.
Chrysanthemum Rose Bath Skin Care: Take proper amount of chrysanthemum, decoct it to remove residue, and add it to bath water for bathing, which has the effects of relieving summer heat, improving eyesight, clearing fire and refreshing, and caring skin, and is suitable for mental workers to bathe; Women can also often take a rose bath to help maintain their skin.
Removing prickly heat in honeysuckle bath: Take appropriate amount of honeysuckle, add water to decoction, and add the filtered juice to bath water, which will be cool and comfortable after bathing, and can also effectively treat prickly heat.
Huoxiang bath to eliminate dampness: the weather in the south is humid, especially in recent days. You can use 30 ~ 50g of Pogostemon fragrans alone or add a proper amount of Folium Artemisiae Argyi to take a bath, which is helpful to expel moisture from the body.
There are many formulas of traditional Chinese medicine for medicated bath, which vary according to illness. If you take a bath with Dalbergia odorifera and Radix Aucklandiae, you can detoxify, relieve itching, refresh yourself, relieve spasm, lower blood pressure and resist bacteria. Taking a bath with Lycium barbarum soup can make the skin smooth, prevent diseases and resist aging, and also reduce inflammation and swelling. Taking a bath with calamus, chrysanthemum and mugwort leaves can improve eyesight, refresh the mind, reduce fever and relieve summer heat, and prevent skin diseases.
2. Water temperature and time for bathing
Excessive water temperature will burn the skin. If the water temperature is too low, the effective components of herbs cannot be released. The optimum water temperature for bathing is 39℃. You can put the herbs directly into the water, or you can boil them with water to extract concentrated juice, then pour them into the bathtub and soak them with water to adjust the temperature.
It is advisable to soak for 20~30 minutes, and soak 1~2 times a week, or 15 times as a course of treatment, once a day.
3, the taboo of medicated bath
1. Do not take a medicated bath immediately after meals, exercise or drinking.
When you catch a cold, you should keep warm in the medicated bath.
3. People with heart disease, poor cardiopulmonary function or skin diseases and infectious diseases should not take medicine bath; Old people, or people with high blood pressure but poor control, should not take medicine bath; Pregnant women and women should not take medicine bath during physiological menstrual period.
Everyone takes a bath, but not everyone can realize the way of keeping in good health from taking a bath.
4, the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine bath
China has a long history of medicated bath culture. According to the mechanism of internal and external circulation of zang-fu organs, meridians and collaterals in traditional Chinese medicine, the relevant drugs are dissolved in boiling water, and the drugs directly enter the meridians and blood vessels through the skin and acupoints by warm method, and are distributed throughout the body, which plays a role in treatment and health care through physical action and drug action. In short, there are many benefits of bathing in Chinese medicine. Here are ten benefits to share:
1, sweating, detoxification.
2. Promote maternal rehabilitation and prevent gynecological diseases.
3, moisturizing and relieving itching, preventing and treating skin diseases.
4. Improve cardiac output and cardiac function.
5. Improve systemic microcirculation.
6, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, spleen and digestion.
7. Eliminate fatigue and relieve muscle and joint pain.
8, easy to sleep and easy to sleep.
9. Enhance the function and immunity of endocrine system.
10, enhance the ability of nerve regulation.