What Is Steam Therapy?

Steam therapy, also known as traditional Chinese medicine steam bath, is a method that uses medicinal liquid to heat evaporated gas for treatment. This method is recorded in many Chinese medicine books. For example, Wu Shangxian's Li Wenwen contains more than 20 fumigation prescriptions, which are used to treat symptoms of colds, colds, strokes, constipation, dysentery, dysentery, and prolapse of the anus. This method mainly uses the liquid medicine to lighten the spleen, straight through the spleen, and at the same time can be inhaled through the mouth and nose to sweat, expelling wind, dispersing cold and dehumidifying, warming the meridians, removing pain and itching, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment.

Steam therapy

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Steam therapy, also known as traditional Chinese medicine steam bath, is a method that uses medicinal liquid to heat evaporated gas for treatment. This method is recorded in many Chinese medicine books. For example, Wu Shangxian's Li Wenwen contains more than 20 fumigation prescriptions, which are used to treat symptoms of colds, colds, strokes, constipation, dysentery, dysentery, and prolapse of the anus. This method mainly uses the liquid medicine to lighten the spleen, straight through the spleen, and at the same time can be inhaled through the mouth and nose to sweat, expelling wind, dispersing cold and dehumidifying, warming the meridians, removing pain and itching, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment.

Chinese name

Steam therapy

Also known as

Chinese medicine steam bath

Principle

Use medicinal solution to heat vaporized gas for treatment

Operation method

Full body fumigation, partial fumigation

Indications

Traumatic pain, etc.

Disable

Cardiac insufficiency, chronic pulmonary heart disease, etc.

First, whole body steaming

1. In a closed room, the medicine used is heated and boiled, the gas is evaporated, the patient is sitting or lying in the room naked (only wearing shorts), and the temperature in the treatment room starts from 30-35 ° C and gradually increases to 40-45 ° C. Generally, fumigation Time is 15-30 minutes. Patients should rest in bed quietly after steaming, and do not rinse. Treatment can be done once a day or every other day, and 5 to 10 times is a course of treatment.

2. In the simple steaming method, the boiled traditional Chinese medicine decoction is poured into a large container. A wooden board is placed on the container, and the patient sits naked on it. The whole body is covered with a sheet, and only the exposed face is used for fumigation.

Partial steaming

Pour the boiled Chinese medicine decoction into a container of appropriate size, about 1/2 to 2/3, so that the patient puts the affected part in the container, a certain distance from the liquid medicine, and covers it with a towel to prevent the hot air from leaking out. Steamed.

Traumatic pain

To Bone Grass Steamed Fumigation Formula ("Simplified External Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine")

1. The steam bath has an observation window. During treatment, the staff should pay attention to the patient's condition at any time in order to deal with it accordingly; this method should not sweat too much, otherwise it will easily cause a cold and collapse. When treating with simple steaming method, care should be taken to avoid wind and keep warm.

2. During local fumigation, keep a proper distance between the affected part and the liquid medicine, which can be continuously adjusted according to the temperature of the liquid medicine, in order to be warm and comfortable, not to burn the skin.

3. Malignant tumor, epilepsy, acute inflammation, cardiac insufficiency, chronic pulmonary heart disease, etc., this method is prohibited.