1. What is traditional Chinese medicine fumigation? "Traditional Chinese medicine fumigation" refers to the method of fumigating the human body with the steam generated by boiling medicines to treat diseases and maintain health.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine fumigation has a long history

(1 ) Beginning in the Spring and Autumn Period

There are written descriptions of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation therapy in the ancient literature, history and geography books of the early Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. The Book of Rites states: If there are sores on the head, bathe, and if there are sores on the body, bathe.

Mugwort is an early medicine used in fumigation therapy. For example, "Mencius" records that "if you are sick for seven years, you can seek moxa for three years", and "Zhuangzi" records that "the Yue people smoked it with moxa". It can be seen that mugwort was widely used at that time. Use fumigation to cure diseases.

(2 ) Exploration period

By the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancients began to explore the fumigation theory. For example, the "Huangdi Neijing" says, "A good healer will heal the skin, and then the muscles..." It is believed that diseases are caused by the invasion of evil spirits from the outside, and the treatment of diseases should also be solved from the outside. "Huangdi Neijing" also states that "if there is evil, the stains will be regarded as sweat" and "if the evils are removed, disordered Qi will not arise". This 'stain' is fumigation treatment.

The earliest medical record of fumigation is recorded in the "Historical Records of Bian Quecang Gong" of the Western Han Dynasty. Chun Yuyi treated Korean women's back pain by "applying medicine, twisting it off, and the disease was gone." Channeling was a drug fumigation treatment.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing recorded in the "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" that fumigation was used to treat a large number of diseases, giving full play to its characteristics of simplicity, convenience, convenience and low cost.

(3 ) Development period During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" and unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb contained fumigation baths from all directions. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Sun Simiao, a master of medicine, wrote "Qian Jin Yao Prescription", which described the prescription and method of using a large dose of Astragalus Fangfeng Decoction to fumigate and revive Empress Dowager Liu after she suffered a stroke and revived her. It was particularly sensational.

The "Yu Yao Yuan Fang" of the Yuan Dynasty records the fumigation prescriptions of emperors and empresses and various fumigation prescriptions for treating joint pain, hemorrhoids, impotence, scrotal swelling and pain, etc.

(4 ) Heyday

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fumigation therapy became more mature. Wang Kentang's "Principles of Syndrome and Treatment", Chen Shigong's "Authentic Surgery", Zhang Jiebin's "The Complete Book of Jingyue", and "Miracle Prescriptions", "Rejuvenation for All Diseases" and "Longevity Preservation" There are extensive records in medical books such as Chinese medicine fumigation to treat various diseases.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" alone contains more than a hundred fumigation prescriptions, such as "cough and hiccups, sulfur burning smoke, stop immediately after smelling it", "hemorrhoids are swollen and painful, fumigated with winter melon decoction" and so on. "Chuanya Waibian" of the same period divided fumigation therapy into fumigation method and steaming method, and listed the various methods to be more clinically practical. For example, to treat excessive sweating of hands, use "one liang of astragalus, one liang of kudzu root, three qian of schizonepeta, and water". Decoct the soup in a basin, smoke it hot and wash it warmly, and there will be no sweating after three times."

3. Principles of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation

The principle of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation is transdermal administration. The skin is the largest organ of the human body: · Large area with many pores, · In addition to its protective effect against invasion by external evil spirits, · It also has various functions such as secretion, absorption, penetration, excretion, and sensation. Traditional Chinese medicine fumigation makes use of this physiological characteristic of the skin, allowing the medicine to enter the blood circulation through skin surface absorption, stratum corneum penetration and dermal transport to exert pharmacological effects.

4. Ten major effects of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation

1. Dredge the meridians: relax the muscles and bones to open up the meridians of the human body, promote the circulation of the meridians, and improve all kinds of gout 

2. Blood purification and detoxification: improve human metabolism, promote blood circulation, and help eliminate waste and liver and kidney toxins from the body

3. Disinfection and sterilization: Go deep into the subcutaneous tissue to clean the whole body, clear away heat and sterilize, and remove dead skin to whiten the skin. 

4. Eliminate fatigue: relax the whole body, relieve stress, make the mood relaxed and happy, and restore vitality 

5. Activating cells: Activates cells throughout the body, effectively improves physical fitness, and increases immune function 

6. Improve cold hands and feet: Promote blood circulation, improve the human circulatory system, and achieve good blood circulation throughout the body 

7. Strengthen functions: warm up the human microcirculatory system and improve various functions of the human body 

8. Slimming and shaping: Helps perspire, consume excess calories and burn excess fat, making the body slim and contoured. 

9. Beauty and lightening of spots: regulate endocrine, prevent gynecological diseases, and lighten spots. 

10. Improve sleep: improve symptoms of insomnia and dreaminess, making people feel refreshed