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What's the difference between fire therapy and steaming?
Speaking of fire therapy, many people may not know what it is. In fact, fire therapy is a kind of treatment method, which belongs to a very important treatment method in Chinese medicine. Perhaps most people have heard of acupuncture. In fact, fire therapy is a part of acupuncture medicine, which mainly uses fire to treat some diseases. What's the difference between fire therapy and steaming? Which is better, fire therapy or steaming?

1, different definitions

Fire therapy is a kind of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, which is based on the principle of meridians and acupoints, and is a health care method combining traditional Chinese medicine prescription with massage, which is widely used in life.

Sweating is a health care method in energy valley hyperthermia, which has a long history and is deeply loved by people. It is a major feature of Korea. In recent years, with the popularity of Korean dramas in China, sweat steam has gradually appeared in people's lives. Sweat steam is mainly used for expelling wind and cold, warming the body and promoting blood circulation, and warming the skin and beautifying.

2. Different approaches.

Fire therapy is to put the Chinese herbal medicine rope soaked in Chinese herbal medicine on the fire treatment site and cover it with a layer of plastic wrap, and then use the thermal effect of alcohol combustion and the operator's massage to make the medicine reach the affected site.

Sweating refers to heating yellow mud or stone at a temperature of 38~42 degrees Celsius. People sit or lie on it for about an hour, and then sweat out.

3. Different effects

(1) the role of fire therapy

Promote blood circulation. Fire therapy is a kind of warm stimulation, which can accelerate the circulation of qi and blood in the body, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Warming meridians to dispel cold. Fire therapy is to gradually raise the temperature by burning alcohol, so that the heat can reach the body. After being applied to the dragon liquid, massage can make the medicine reach the affected area, warm the channels, dispel cold and remove dampness.

Warming and nourishing Yang Qi, invigorating middle energizer and benefiting qi. Fire therapy can promote qi and blood circulation, guide qi and blood upward, warm yang and help transport, and replenish middle qi.

Health care and prevention. Fire therapy can stimulate healthy qi, improve disease resistance and keep fit.

(2) the role of sweat steam

1. Beauty. Sweating can change skin texture, enhance skin elasticity and delay aging.

2. lose weight. Sweating can reduce blood lipid and cholesterol, promote fat burning, lose weight and shape.

3. Detoxification. Sweating can accelerate the blood circulation in the body, relax pores and accelerate the discharge of toxins in the body.

4. Enhance immunity. Activate dormant cells in vivo, enhance lymphatic circulation and enhance immunity.

5. Reduce stress. In the process of steaming, people can fully relax their bodies, relieve mental stress and physical tension.

4. Suitable for different people

(1) Fire therapy is suitable for people.

1. For sub-healthy people, fire therapy can regulate the whole body's qi and blood, dredge meridians and enhance healthy qi.

2. For people with rheumatism, fire therapy can promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis, dispel wind and relieve pain, and can be used for diseases caused by rheumatism such as scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervical spondylosis, lumbago and leg pain.

3. People with yang deficiency constitution. Fire therapy can warm yang, tonify middle energizer, and warm qi and blood, and can be used for palace cold and dysmenorrhea caused by yang deficiency.

(2) Suitable for steaming people.

1. For sub-healthy people, steaming can improve immunity and regulate endocrine and autonomic nervous system.

2. Rehabilitation people, rehabilitation after illness, postpartum rehabilitation, can promote metabolism in the body and discharge toxins through steaming.

3. Love beauty, steaming can enhance skin elasticity, lose weight and shape, whiten and beautify.

4. Normal people, normal people can also improve internal circulation, prevent diseases and keep healthy by sweating.

5. Which is better, fire therapy or steaming?

Fire therapy and steaming have their own advantages. If people with weak constitution suggest fire treatment, steaming will discharge a lot of sweat, and blood is the source of sweat. If there is more sweat, the yang in the body will dissipate. People with weak constitution may not be able to bear it, but forced steaming will make them weaker. Fire therapy should be mild, but those with yin deficiency should not be treated with fire, so as not to hurt yin and help yang.

6. What are the benefits of steaming?

1, beauty and freckle removal, detoxification and beauty, skin is prone to oxidative aging due to long-term ultraviolet radiation, resulting in freckles and black spots, and dull skin. Health preservation through steaming can improve the antioxidant capacity of the skin and effectively excrete the stains deposited on the bottom of the skin.

2. Exhausting sweat and toxins accumulated in the body can relieve arthritis, gastroenteritis, chronic bronchitis and other symptoms.

3. Strengthening the function of trachea, bronchus and lung has a good effect on desensitization and expectoration.

4, detoxification and beauty, too much moisture is prone to dizziness, heavy limbs, heavy body pain, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Sub-healthy people have poor natural adjustment ability and are prone to get sick. Keeping healthy by steaming can also effectively eliminate moisture in the body.

5. The most remarkable point is whitening skin, changing skin quality, enhancing skin elasticity and delaying aging, especially suitable for women. Steam it several times more, and your skin will be smooth and tender.

6. It has the functions of reducing fat, reducing fat, whitening, bodybuilding and shaping, and also has a significant effect on weight loss.

7. The natural negative ions released by tourmaline can completely relax the human body. Relieve tension, relieve stress, and have the effect of calming the nerves.

8, accelerate blood circulation in the body, open pores, get through the internal environment of the body, and completely discharge body dirt.

9. Activate dormant cells of the body, enhance human immunity and promote wound healing.

10, enhance the body's basic metabolism, reduce blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides, and increase exercise endurance.

1 1, antibacterial, promoting body repair and regeneration.

12, improve acidic constitution, treat sub-health state of urban population, and have good effects on sleep and neurasthenia.

13, deep perspiration, we sweat in the steaming hall, which is not the same as usual. It is really a bath cell. When human cells are young and healthy, people will be younger and healthier.

14, regulating yin and yang, people live in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, such as bedrooms, cars, shopping malls, banks, offices and so on. Over time, it will inevitably destroy the balance of yin and yang in the human body. Sweating can effectively balance the yin and yang of the human body.