Promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, accelerating blood circulation and enhancing local resistance. The main function of hot compress is to raise local skin temperature, relax muscles, expand skin capillaries and improve local and even systemic blood circulation. Moreover, studies have shown that warm stimulation can activate the phagocytosis of reticuloendothelial system, promote the metabolism of various substances in the body, and have a good effect on various inflammatory reactions. It can also promote intestinal peristalsis, promote inflammation absorption, accelerate blood circulation, relieve tissue adhesion and improve local nutrition.

Physiotherapy effect: The salt bag is hot-pressed on waist, knees, shoulders, abdomen and other body parts, which can play the role of health care and physiotherapy. Hot salt has strong heat insulation and permeability, which can not only penetrate the hot temperature into the body, but also suck out the sick gas and cold in the body. It can relax muscles, dilate capillaries, increase sweat gland secretion, promote blood circulation and improve metabolic rate. Has the effects of warming channels and activating collaterals, diminishing inflammation and dispelling cold, and relieving pain. It is effective for joint pain, lumbago, backache, arthritis, chronic stomachache, diarrhea, neuralgia and paralysis caused by chills. Especially, immediately after cupping, hot compress the affected area with a salt bag often gets twice the result with half the effort, which is beneficial to strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits and promoting the recovery of the sick body.

1, hot compress with coarse salt to dispel dampness and dispel cold, relieve pain and dispel cold.

Some people have a lot of moisture in their bodies, so they can apply hot compress on the soles of their feet when doing hot compress, and then apply hot compress after soaking their feet every time, so that the dehumidification is very good. After a course of treatment, there will be obvious changes in the body and moisture will be driven away. For people with cold body, hot compress is also carried out after soaking their feet every day, so that the dehumidification is good and the effect of expelling cold is obvious.

For gout patients, you can apply hot compress on your knees to relieve pain, and long-term use of rheumatism will improve.

In addition, crude salt has a great external health care function, especially for diseases related to bone and joint such as wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, which can play a role in relieving pain and dispelling cold. To treat joint stiffness and pain, wrap two Jin of raw salt on the joints that are painful and afraid of cold, each time 15-20 minutes, until the raw salt gradually cools down. This method can only relieve joint pain, and cannot completely replace drugs and surgery. It is best for patients to seek medical treatment as soon as possible so as not to delay the best opportunity for treatment.

2, salt fennel hot compress navel has the effect of tonifying kidney.

With the increase of age, many men often suffer from yin deficiency of liver and kidney due to the gradual shortage of vaginal fluid. In order to avoid this situation, here is a trick to teach you, that is, stir-fry with half a catty of edible salt and a little fennel, and then put it in a cloth bag and apply it to the navel, which can achieve the purpose of regulating yin and promoting the balance of yin and yang.

Among them, salt entering the kidney meridian has a certain effect of tonifying kidney and nourishing yin; Fennel is pungent and warm, which has the effect of enlightening. The reason why it is placed in the navel position is because the navel is an important part for regulating human vaginal fluid, and salt is easily absorbed by the human body through this part. On the one hand, heat energy promotes the absorption of salt by human body; On the other hand, the thermal effect directly stimulates the navel, which can effectively regulate the meridians.

To make it play a greater role, it is suggested to apply it from 17 to 19, because this is the season of kidney meridian and the best time to tonify kidney. In addition, eat more black kidney-tonifying foods, such as black soybean milk, sesame paste, walnuts and so on.

Need to be reminded that after the first hot compress with large grains of salt, red and white "flowers" will appear on the stomach. Generally speaking, they will retreat after the third or fourth time. If there are sores or ulcers around the navel, don't use this health care method.

3, hot compress armpit, strong heart and lung

Speaking of fitness, many people know that there are many acupoints on the hands and feet, which can be massaged frequently for health care. However, I didn't expect the armpit, a part that people seldom touch in their daily activities, to be as healthy as their hands and feet.

Axillary is the passage of blood vessels and nerves between the neck and upper limbs, and also the gathering place of axillary arteries and axillary lymph nodes, which is responsible for blood transmission and immune defense. There is an important acupoint under the armpit, which is called Jiquan in Chinese medicine (where the axillary artery beats at the apex of the armpit).

Both Chinese medicine and western medicine attach great importance to the health care function of armpits, and pressing armpits often is very beneficial to the body.

Western medicine believes that pressing armpits frequently can improve the blood supply, stimulate lymph, improve cardiopulmonary function, increase vital capacity and improve respiratory system function; Promote appetite and improve digestion.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that acupuncture and massage at Jiquan point has the effect of relaxing the chest and calming the nerves; Regulating qi and blood, relieving spasm and pain, and relieving "heartache" have certain curative effect on cold pain of elbow and arm; Promote neurohumoral circulation, so that the whole body organs can enjoy more nutrition and oxygen.

4. Other functions

(1) Gynecological symptoms, menstruation, pregnancy: (Hot compress is the most commonly used for this disease, and the adjuvant treatment effect is obvious) It can be applied during menstruation, which is also helpful for dysmenorrhea, but of course, if you have menorrhagia, you'd better stop using it. It also has a good auxiliary effect on gynecological diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease, tubal adhesion, dysmenorrhea and palace cold. Moreover, it needs to be combined with drug therapy to play a better role (the corresponding auxiliary Chinese medicine will be put in the salt bag, which can be combined with oral and external Chinese medicine when used, and the medicine will be emitted after heating, which has a certain acupoint massage effect). This method needs to be used for a long time to have better results. But if you plan to get pregnant, you may get pregnant after using it. If you continue to use hot compress, the fertilized egg will be deformed. It is best to use hot compress from YJ to PL.

The treatment of dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea women lie flat on the bed, with about a catty of crude salt hot compress in abdominal pain, once a day.

To treat pelvic inflammatory disease, put about a catty of crude salt in the abdomen for 30-60 minutes to gradually relieve the pain. Crude salt can be repeatedly fried for 4-5 times and then replaced with new ones. It is important to insist on using this method. In addition to the conventional antibacterial and anti-inflammatory treatment, the prescription can achieve better results. The Beijing News

(2) Shoulder and neck: frying salt and ironing can relieve neck and shoulder pain.

For office workers who work at their desks for a long time, especially those who face the computer every day, because they always keep a posture, they often have neck and shoulder pain. In this case, you can try simple salt frying and ironing therapy at home to relieve the symptoms of neck and shoulder pain by relaxing muscles, expelling cold and dampness, and strengthening blood circulation.

The method of frying salt and ironing belongs to one of the "ironing methods" in the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine Ouyang Qi, an attending physician in the Department of Physiotherapy of the General Hospital of Beijing Military Region, said that the neck and shoulder pain of office workers is mostly caused by sitting posture for a long time and lack of exercise, which makes the neck and shoulder muscles stiff and the blood circulation blocked. However, salt is difficult to cool after heating. Applying the fried salt to the neck and shoulder will raise the local tissue temperature, regulate the autonomic nerve, improve the motor nerve function, dilate the capillaries, accelerate the blood circulation, make the muscles relax slowly and flexibly, and play a role in eliminating fatigue and improving the neck and shoulder pain.

(3) Chinese medicine believes that for obese people with edema, hot compress with coarse salt can help to eliminate excess water in the body and achieve the purpose of slimming.

(4) Anti-inflammatory and detumescence: The warm stimulation of fried salt can activate the phagocytosis of reticuloendothelial system and improve local metabolism, so it has the functions of anti-inflammatory, detumescence, relieving reflex muscle spasm and analgesia.

(5) It can improve children's dyspepsia, wind-cold common cold and women's cold dysmenorrhea.

(6) Effect of ice compress: The younger generation is under great pressure, and the impact brought by various aspects every day makes them physically and mentally exhausted, and they are easily angry, upset and impatient. You can use ice compress to decompress yourself. Usage: put the sea salt bag in the refrigerator for 6 minutes, then take it out and put it on your head, or put it in a comfortable place and ice it quietly for a while. The coolness brought by this ice compress can stretch the body and mind, eliminate the feeling of irritability, and cheer up and work hard again. The effect of ice compress is very good, giving yourself a cool world is healthier than drinking cold drinks 100 times.

(7) Ice compress to reduce swelling and reduce fever: If you accidentally twist your foot, you can use this ice compress to put the salt bag in the refrigerator for 5 minutes, and then take it out and put it on the twisted part. This principle is the same for ice.