What is the history of the development of medicinal bath

Medicinal bath belongs to one of the traditional Chinese medicine external treatment method, it is the water in the vessel, soak some parts of the body or the whole body, the use of water temperature itself on the skin, meridians, acupoints stimulation and drug absorption of transdermal, to achieve the purpose of treatment of diseases, health care, which is different from the general bath, hot spring baths, etc., but in accordance with the principle of traditional Chinese medicine, according to the principle of identification of treatment, according to the different diseases, adding different medicines

Chinese medicinal bath, ancient. China's earliest medical prescription "fifty-two disease prescription" in the treatment of infantile epilepsy medicinal bath. Rites of passage" said "head sores are bathed, body ulcers are bathed", "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" in the "its subjected to the external evil, impregnated with the shape of the sweat" records, it can be said that the history of the medicinal bath has a long history, the foundation of the Qin Dynasty, the development of the Han and Tang dynasties, enrichment in the Song and Ming Dynasties, maturity of the Qing Dynasty, and the development of the Chinese medicinal bath.

Medicinal baths have a long history.

Medicinal bath is divided into local medicinal bath and the whole body medicinal bath two kinds of local medicinal bath more choice of foot, calf for the immersion part, foot is running blood, contact viscera, communication inside and outside the upper and lower meridians of the important starting and stopping parts of the foot and foot of the three yang and foot of the three yin meridians are intersected here, the foot of the internal organs and the whole body reflex zones, there are 52 blocks of bone, more than 60 muscles, known as the "second body's heart", and the calf of the second heart. There are 52 bones and more than 60 muscles in the foot, which is known as "the second heart of human body", and the cuticle of the calf is thinner and rich in blood vessels, nerves and muscles, which is more conducive to transdermal absorption of medicines. The whole body bath is soaked and fumigated in addition to the head and neck of the other parts of the body, the role of a larger area, the utilization of drugs is higher, suitable for use in a wide range of lesions of systemic diseases.

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, in addition to the protection against external aggression, there are secretion, absorption, infiltration, excretion, sensory and other functions. The medicinal bath therapy is the use of this physiological characteristics of the skin, play the purpose of the treatment of disease, its mechanism is no more than the local role and the overall role of two aspects. Local effect is through the drug directly on the surface of the muscle, as well as muscles, joints, improve the skin, muscles, joints, metabolism, to restore its function, directly targeting the location of the disease, the cause of the disease to play a therapeutic role; the overall treatment is through the drug absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream, through the adjustment of the whole body yin and yang, qi and blood, adjusting the function of the internal organs.

Modern research has shown that the drug ions in the medicated bath enter the body through the skin, mucous membrane absorption, diffusion, radiation and other pathways, avoiding the first-pass effect of the liver, increasing the concentration of effective drugs in the local area of the lesion, and playing a therapeutic role in directly targeting the cause of the disease, the disease site. At the same time, hot and humid stimulation causes local vasodilatation, promotes local and peripheral blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, makes the metabolism vigorous, local tissue nutrition and systemic function can be improved, so that the disease to the healing.

Medicinal bath therapy through the role of drugs, the warmth of the water and magnetic effect, can reach the harmonization of qi and blood, balance yin and yang, dredge the meridians, penetrate the coupling, dispel evils and in the warming of the cold, eliminate wind and dampness, clearing the heat and detoxification, swelling and knotting, through the pain, nourishing the glory of the muscle, health care and so on, not only to treat scleroderma, polymyositis, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism and other rheumatism, and to the Insomnia, constipation, bone fracture and other diseases have the exact efficacy, for patients suffering from such stubborn diseases to bring the gospel, made a breakthrough in the efficacy of the treatment, loved by the majority of patients.