Sweating therapy belongs to the category of external treatment of internal diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, and its application has a long history with the development of traditional Chinese medicine. In recent years, steaming therapy is a popular physical therapy in Asia, such as Korea and Japan. This therapy can be traced back to our country for a long time. The earliest medical work in China, Huangdi Neijing, records that sweating depends on the condition, and it is necessary to calm down the moisture, drive away the accumulated water in the body, and do some slight exercise to gradually spread the yang. For example, it is recorded in the Collection of Collected Works of Yu Su: spleen wind, itching, abdominal fever, irritability and yellowing. When this happens, you can press, take medicine and take a bath. This is the most typical description of bathing and treating diseases; Mongolians get sick because of wind and cold, so they wrap the patients with newly slaughtered skins of cattle and sheep and steam them with fire to make people sweat and treat diseases. In China, there is also a method of whole body steaming of Tibetan medicine. The popular Turkish bath in Europe is similar to modern steaming therapy, but it is not more comfortable and scientific than modern steaming therapy. Sweating therapy is a traditional self-cultivation therapy, focusing on health care. The benefits of steaming therapy can improve the blood circulation and water balance of human body. Steam therapy is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people (not suitable for children). Indication of steaming therapy: 1. The steaming therapy is mainly used to treat hyperhidrosis, cold and dampness, gout, rheumatism, rheumatoid disease, joint pain, lumbago and leg pain, various cervical and lumbar protrusion, hyperosteogeny, sciatica, femoral head necrosis and stroke hemiplegia. 2. Sweat steam therapy has a significant effect on female dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, postpartum wind, acne, facial macula and gaunt face. By steaming, it can detoxify and beautify the face, reduce the activity of melanin, fade black and yellow, have ruddy complexion, remove body odor and lubricate the skin. The beauty of a woman comes from steaming. Instead of relying on the beauty of chemical pigments. 3. Sweat steam therapy can balance the yin and yang of middle-aged and elderly people, strengthen functional cells, sterilize and disinfect all kinds of itchy skin, get exogenous cold in the first time, dredge meridians, eliminate dampness and relieve pain, mediate sleep, and help people feel refreshed. 4. Especially for all kinds of intractable obesity, it is also a very good way to lose weight, with remarkable effect. Western medicine is talking about the disorder of the hidden system, such as gout patients, which is caused by the imbalance of acid and alkali in the human body. Gout patients are due to the accumulation of urate crystals in the human body, which can not be excreted and decomposed, stimulating the inflammatory reaction of joints and surrounding tissues and causing severe pain. If the human body is in a state of high uric acid for a long time, gout will occur frequently. Arteriosclerosis turns congestion attached to blood vessels into congestion. Hyperlipidemia leads to thick blood. (Drinking phlegm) will slow down the blood flow of the human body, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the heart, brain and limbs. Without timely treatment and adjustment, the body will be sore and numb, resulting in coronary heart disease, cerebral thrombosis and other diseases. Steam therapy can relieve the symptoms of some diseases, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, angina pectoris, stroke and chest tightness. Gastrospasm, dyspepsia, diarrhea, constipation, hemorrhoids, halitosis, anorexia, fatty liver. Cold hands and feet, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, headache, shoulder and neck pain, lumbago, leg pain, neuralgia, varicose veins, beriberi, urinary incontinence, prostatitis, etc. Cold, rhinitis, asthma, tonsillitis. Insomnia, depression, chronic fatigue. Because through steaming therapy, harmful substances in the human body can be excreted to achieve certain therapeutic purposes. However, any business has both good and bad sides. Some people don't know how to arrange the steaming time scientifically and reasonably when steaming, which not only fails to achieve the function of health care, but also harms their health. So they should pay attention to the following matters when steaming: 1, the steaming time should not be too long, and it is more appropriate to do it once or twice a week. One time can be about an hour according to the sweating situation. Conducive to sweating, gout patients should drink alkaline soda water conditionally. After steaming, if you feel weak, you can drink some light salt water and citrus water with more potassium to supplement the potassium and salt lost in your body after steaming, and also add some calcium. 2. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay attention to protect themselves when steaming. Once you feel unwell, you should leave the steaming room immediately and lie flat in a room with relatively good air circulation. Carrying first-aid medicine with you is good for treatment. 3, it is best to urinate before steaming, which is conducive to dredging kidney function. After sweating, it will inevitably lead to a decrease in urine volume, which is not conducive to the normal excretion of renal function. According to TCM, water in human body accounts for about 40% of the body. Adequate water can replenish blood, and a large amount of water loss in the human body can also cause insufficient blood supply, which makes people dizzy and weak. Therefore, when steaming, you can't be eager for quick success and instant benefit, and haste makes waste. It varies from person to person and from time to time. In recent two or three years, the number of steaming rooms imitating steaming therapy has gradually increased in northern China. Many people feel that steaming therapy is of great benefit to improve their physical condition through personal experience after steaming. It can relax muscles and tendons, promote blood circulation, relax people's spirit, relieve fatigue and relieve psychological pressure brought by work and life. Especially through steaming therapy, people who engage in mental work and sit in the office for a long time can replace the physical and mental exhaustion syndrome caused by long-term lack of physical labor, inability to persist in physical exercise in winter and inability to sweat for a long time. Being unable to sweat for a long time will do a lot of harm to your body. Exercise, which we often say at ordinary times, is actually to achieve the purpose of sweating and fitness. Sweating therapy can also be called lazy therapy, and sweating can be achieved without exercise. Chinese medicine says that the human body is wet and sleepy; What is wet sleep? It is a sticky substance that is not easy to circulate in the human body like phlegm, which is called phlegm drink in Chinese medicine. Many sticky things are stored in various parts of the human body. Because of the existence of wet sleepiness, people feel sleepy and heavy for many years, forming wet sleepiness. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, people are naturally healthy if necrotic blood (phlegm) is regarded as the dregs that need to be removed urgently. The source of all diseases lies in blood stasis. People often say that it hurts to be in it. People have different pain sites and diseases because different places are blocked by blood stasis (phlegm). If the blood stasis (phlegm) is dredged, the blood supply of the human body will be normal, and the pain will disappear, which will make you feel the pain of the body, and there will be more cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. People used to say that running water does not rot, but it will deteriorate without running water, forming some harmful substances, and so does the human body. The flow and normal circulation of water in human body are also very important. When people have a common cold, they feel pain in different parts. It is dampness that hinders the normal circulation of water and fluid in the body. The liquid in the human body can't fall and rise, can't reach and sweat with the skin, and it will be produced. People often say diseases such as rheumatism. A healthy human body depends on the normal flow of liquid, so as to expel redundant and discarded harmful things from the body, and achieve smooth and healthy body.