Chinese medicine bath must ask Chinese medicine practitioners to prescribe medicine according to the condition and make medicine soup according to the doctor's advice. Don't choose your own medicine blindly.
2. Be sure to take a shower before taking a shower to keep yourself clean, so as to keep the medicine pool clean.
Rinse with warm water immediately after bathing, dry your skin and get dressed in time. Generally speaking, hot water medicated bath (39℃ ~ 45℃) is suitable for rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic myalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, sequela of various bone injuries, obesity, psoriasis and so on. The temperature of medicated bath is suitable for nervous hyperactivity, insomnia, general pain, dyspepsia, etc. Should be equal to or slightly lower than body temperature; 25℃ ~ 33℃ is suitable for acute sprain and contusion. When taking medicine bath, the room temperature should not exceed 20℃ When taking a local medicated bath, you should pay attention to keeping warm all over, and take shelter from the wind in summer to prevent colds.
3, the location of the bath is particular.
When taking a bath for the first time, the water level should be below the heart. After the body adapts for about 3 ~ 5 minutes, it slowly soaks to the shoulder position. Bathing time should not be too long, especially the whole body hot bath. Due to excessive sweating, the loss of body fluids is large; The skin blood vessels are fully dilated, and the blood volume on the body surface increases, leading to head ischemia and dizziness or syncope. In case of syncope, you should get out of the bathtub in time, lie flat on the bed in the lounge, and give the patient some boiled water or sugar water to replenish body fluids and energy. Or wash your feet with cold water, so that the blood vessels in the lower limbs contract and the blood supply to the head is sufficient.
4, the bath time should be chosen.
It is not advisable to take a full-body medicated bath before and half an hour after meals. Medicinal bath before meals, due to an empty stomach, sweating too much when taking a bath, is easy to cause collapse. Medicated bath immediately after meals can cause gastrointestinal or visceral blood decrease, blood tends to the body surface, which is not conducive to digestion, and can cause gastrointestinal discomfort and even nausea and vomiting. It is not advisable to take a whole body hot bath before going to bed, so as not to affect sleep after excitement.
These people take a bath carefully.
Patients with severe heart failure, severe pulmonary insufficiency, myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, aortic aneurysm, arteriosclerosis and hypertension, and those with bleeding tendency, the elderly and children should use medicinal bath with water temperature above 39℃ with caution, but they should be bathed with liquid medicine close to body temperature, accompanied by family members or medical staff, and the bathing time should not be too long. It is not advisable to take medicinal baths during pregnancy or menstrual period, especially basin baths and sitz baths.
6. Drink water properly after bathing.
After soaking in hot medicine bath, the whole body is easy to faint, so I get up slowly from the bathtub after bathing; Mild chest tightness, dry mouth and other discomforts occur when soaking in medicine bath, so you can drink water or drinks properly; If you have serious discomfort, you should immediately stop taking the medicated bath.