Yao's medicated bath is to boil medicinal liquid with a variety of herbs, put it in a cedar barrel, and soak it in a fumigation bath in the barrel, so that the medicinal liquid can penetrate into the viscera and meridians of the whole body, and achieve the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, sweating and detoxifying.
According to legend, Yao ancestors lacked medical care and medicine when they migrated, and Yao compatriots generally lived on high slopes. Due to high altitude, fog and humidity all the year round, it is easy to cause diseases such as rheumatism and typhoid fever. For thousands of years, in order to survive and resist the virus, the Yao people in the deep mountains and forests have formed a life concept of paying attention to disease prevention, health care, health preservation and longevity. Yao medicinal bath is a secret Yao medicinal bath that has been passed down from generation to generation after decades of practice and application.
In the long years and long-term labor, they often collect the lingcao and fresh medicine from the mountains, boil them in water, repair wooden barrels and soak them in baths. Yao old people often say: relying on mountains to eat mountains does not hurt their roots; Take water as the manuscript, don't damage its source; Let the water be clear forever and the mountains be green forever. Therefore, the Yao people only choose one mountain a year and another next year, never demanding too much, so as to achieve harmony between man and nature.
Yao medicinal bath is a shower method handed down from generation to generation by Yao people in congjiang county, and it is a unique, ancient and magical health care method. Yao people's medicinal bath is a custom of medicinal bath formed in the long-term farming and hunting life, which can strengthen the body, eliminate fatigue, keep out the cold and treat diseases.