After planting awn seeds, it is hot at noon, and people are prone to sweating. Clothes should be washed and changed frequently. In order to avoid heatstroke, we should often take a bath after the seeds of the canopy, which can relax the skin. For health and disease prevention, medicated bath is a good choice. I specially arranged several methods of medicated bath for everyone.
Medicinal bath is to add the decoction or immersion liquid of medicine into bath water, or directly steam bath or fumigate the whole body or affected part with the decoction, so as to achieve the purpose of fitness and disease prevention. The use of medicated bath has a long history in China. According to reports, from the Zhou Dynasty, it was popular to bathe in fragrant soup to keep it clean. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, this kind of fragrant soup bath was introduced to the people, and there appeared a "fragrant line" for people to wash fragrant soup bath, which gradually formed a custom. People choose different medicated baths on different days to keep clean and prevent diseases. For example, taking a bath with spiced soup in the Spring Festival is fragrant and refreshing. On the second day of the second lunar month, the ancients called it "Zhonghe Festival" and the folks called it "Dragon Head Up". Taking a bath with Lycium barbarum soup can make people's skin shiny and young. In summer, I often take a bath with Wuzhi soup, in order to get rid of breath, drive away poison and nourish blood. In Qing dynasty, medicated bath was not only used as a method to strengthen the body and prolong life, but also widely used to treat and rehabilitate diseases.
In the process of medicated bath, besides the physical and chemical effects of water itself (mainly warm), it is mainly the influence of drugs on human body. The effective components of the drug aqueous solution enter the body through the body surface and respiratory mucosa. According to the prescription of different drugs, it can play the role of dredging channels and collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, expelling wind and dispelling cold, clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and relieving itching.
There are various methods of medicated bath, such as immersion bath, fumigation bath, hot compress, etc., and immersion bath is the main method of health care.
Take Wuye Decoction (Cinnamomum cassia twig, Sophora japonica twig, peach twig, willow twig and hemp twig) as an example: first, wrap the same amount of medicine in gauze, add water ten times as much as the medicine, soak it for 20 minutes, then fry it for 30 minutes, and then put the liquid medicine into bath water to take a bath. Conditional can be once a day, this medicine bath method can be used for whole body bath or local immersion.