1, Matters needing attention in traditional Chinese medicine bath
1, Chinese medicine bath should suit the remedy to the case.
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 local medicated bath, we should pay attention to keeping warm all over the body and avoid 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. Medicated bath is not suitable during pregnancy or menstrual period, especially tub bath and sitz bath.
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.
2, the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine bath
1, sweating, detoxification.
2. Promote maternal rehabilitation and prevent gynecological diseases.
3, moisturizing and relieving itching, preventing and treating skin diseases.
4. Improve cardiac output and cardiac function.
5. Improve systemic microcirculation.
6, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, spleen and digestion.
7. Eliminate fatigue and relieve muscle and joint pain.
8, easy to sleep and easy to sleep.
9. Enhance the function and immunity of endocrine system.
10, enhance the ability of nerve regulation.
3. Chinese herbal medicine for foot bath
1. Ginger dispels cold
Ginger is a pungent and warm medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the function of dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, and has little toxic and side effects. People who are afraid of cold and easy to get cold hands and feet can soak their feet with ginger.
Generally, take ginger/kloc-0.5 ~ 30g (about half a slice of ginger with the same size), pat it flat, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot, and boil it in hot water for about/kloc-0.0 minutes. After cooking, pour out all the Jiang Shui, and add appropriate amount of cold water to about 40℃ (generally it is better to feel it is not hot). When soaking your feet, don't let the water pass over your ankles. You'd better rub your feet when soaking.
After soaking feet with Jiang Shui for a period of time, the symptoms of being afraid of cold can be improved to some extent.
2. Cinnamon can reduce swelling
Cinnamon, also known as Cinnamon, Cinnamon or Cinnamon, and Zanthoxylum bungeanum are all commonly used spices in the family, which have the functions of warming kidney and strengthening yang. Soaking feet with them can relieve edema caused by kidney disease.
The so-called nephrogenic edema is mainly caused by renal function problems or diseases. Generally, it first occurs in loose tissues, such as eyelids or face, ankles and ankles, and it is most obvious when getting up in the morning. Pressing the skin in the edema area with your fingers can lead to depression.
If nephrogenic edema occurs, you can soak your feet with 15g pepper and 15g cinnamon (a pinch or a small piece). The cooking method is the same as that of ginger: add half a pot of water to the pot, cover the pot, and cook with hot water for about 10 minute. After cooking, pour off all the water, and then add an appropriate amount of cold water to about 40℃. Continuous foot soaking in this way can play a certain role in reducing swelling.
3. mugwort leaves warm the lungs
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood is a kind of drug with flat nature, bitter taste and no toxicity. It has the functions of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage, and is also commonly used in acupuncture, so it is also called "herb". Soaking feet with wormwood can also improve lung function, which is very beneficial to people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white sputum.
The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that with ginger. Generally, 30 ~ 50g (a handful) of dried wormwood is boiled in water to soak feet. The cooking method is the same as above. Patients with severe cold and dampness can soak their feet with wormwood once a week.
You can also soak your feet with wormwood water and drink a cup of ginger and red jujube water (10 dried red jujube plus two slices of ginger and ten bowls of boiling water for two hours) as an assistant, which has better lung warming effect.
4. Safflower prevents frostbite
Safflower is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in gynecology, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. People who are prone to chilblain and chapped skin in winter, using safflower to soak their feet in early autumn can play a very good preventive role.
Soaking feet with10 ~15g (about a handful) of safflower can prevent and improve chilblain.
If 30 ~ 50g of dried wormwood and 10 ~ 15g of safflower are used to soak feet at the same time, blood circulation can be improved, and varicose veins and peripheral neuritis can be prevented and alleviated.