1, promoting sleep
Medicinal bath helps to improve blood circulation, relax body and mind, relieve physical fatigue, and use drugs to soothe the nerves, nourish yin and blood, and effectively promote sleep.
Medicated bath formula for promoting sleep: Evodia rutaecarpa 20g and proper amount of rice vinegar. Take juice from Evodia rutaecarpa soup, put it in a basin, add rice vinegar and soak your feet for half an hour.
2. Reduce fat and lose weight
Medicinal bath helps to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, accelerate metabolism, promote fat burning in the body and help to lose weight effectively.
Prescription of medicated bath for reducing blood fat and weight: cut lotus leaves into fine powder, add clear water, boil and filter residue, and bathe all over, once a day/kloc-0.
3. Beauty and black hair
Medicated bath can stimulate local parts of the body, make qi and blood smooth, and achieve the purpose of beauty. In addition, medicated bath can also treat dermatoses, replenish skin moisture, nourish skin, remove epidermal necrotic cells, and finally prevent premature skin relaxation and wrinkling.
Prescription of medicated bath for nourishing face and blackening hair: Take appropriate amount of pulp of winter melon, decoct in water and bathe, which can whiten skin. Soak 30 grams of Fructus Cannabis and 30 grams of Fructus Zanthoxyli in clear water for one night, and then decoct to remove residue. Taking juice and washing your hair can blacken your hair and moisten it.
Step 4 Moisturize and relieve itching
Most of the traditional Chinese medicine ingredients used in medicated bath have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, killing insects and relieving itching, moistening skin and removing dryness. Medicinal bath can soften the original dry and rough skin and relieve itching.
Medicated bath prescription for moistening skin and relieving itching: 50 grams of chrysanthemum and 30 grams of green tea, soaked in 400 ml of water for 20 minutes, then boiled and bathed.
Step 5 promote digestion
Medicinal bath can help promote blood circulation, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, strengthen the spleen to help digestion, and promote defecation. Generally, there will be exhaust during the medicinal bath, which can improve habitual constipation.
Medicinal bath prescription for promoting digestion: 50 grams of ginger and 50 grams of mugwort leaf are boiled in water for 100 minutes, then about 1000 ml of liquid medicine is taken, 30 grams of salt is added to dissolve it, and then the lower abdomen is scrubbed, and the skin is red, 20 minutes each time, twice a day is appropriate.
6. Enhance immunity
Immunity is the body's own defense mechanism, which can help eliminate invasive bacteria and viruses and reduce the risk of illness. Medicinal bath is helpful to enhance human immunity, repair and improve the ability to prevent various diseases.
Medicated bath prescription for enhancing immunity: 500g of Lycium barbarum leaves, soaked in 1000 ml of water 1 hour, then decocted and bathed, can prolong life, prevent diseases and protect health.
7. Matters needing attention
1. Follow the prescription.
Like internal medicine, medicated bath also needs to follow the principle of prescription, select drugs according to diseases, and choose different prescriptions according to factors such as one's physique, time, place and illness.
The specific methods of decocting and bathing are also particular: after crushing the medicine, wrap it in gauze (or directly put it in a pot and add water to make it liquid), add appropriate amount of water, soak it for 20 minutes, cook it for another 30 minutes, then pour the liquid medicine into a basin and take a bath when the temperature is suitable. There are fumigation and bathing methods.
Step 2 pay attention to safety
On the one hand, it is necessary to avoid excessive water temperature. For rheumatic cold, the effect will be better if the temperature of medicinal bath is higher, but it is necessary to avoid scalding the skin if the temperature is too high. Especially when the elderly and children have poor temperature perception ability, they need family members to help test the water temperature, or ask the elderly to measure it with a thermometer. On the other hand, children must pay attention to avoid choking, and people with mobility difficulties should be taken care of by their families when taking medicine baths.
When the skin is damaged, it is not advisable to take a medicated bath to avoid infection.
3. It is not advisable to take a full-body medicated bath within half an hour before and after meals.
Before meals, my stomach is empty and my energy is insufficient. Taking a bath makes the whole body's qi and blood smooth, accelerates energy consumption, aggravates hunger, and even causes hypoglycemia symptoms. Medicated bath immediately after meals, the skin will take away the blood from the stomach and intestines, affect digestion and lead to bloating. People with indigestion should be delayed until after meals 1 hour.
4. Don't take a whole body hot bath before going to bed.
Because the whole body hot water medicinal bath has an exciting effect, it is easy to make people fall asleep before going to bed. You can use normal temperature medicine bath or warm water medicine bath.
The medicated bath should not last too long.
If the medicated bath lasts too long, the blood will concentrate on the skin for a long time, and long-term ischemia of internal organs and brain will cause discomfort. Severe cerebral ischemia can lead to syncope, especially in hot baths. At this time, cold water can be used to soak the feet, so that the blood vessels in the feet of patients can contract and increase the blood supply to the head. In order to avoid this situation, you can drink Shengmai drink or honey water before the medicated bath.
6. Leave the bathtub slowly after taking the medicine bath.
People who are weak should not get up too hard after taking a medicated bath to avoid sudden blackness and dizziness.