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patients with special requirements, can also try the following two kinds of "hot compress method", the right medicine, the effect will be better.
1 hot salt compress
is mainly aimed at deficiency cold pain. This method can be used by people who suffer from cold or usually weak physique.
after wind, cold and dampness stimulation, the meridians are blocked, resulting in pain in many parts and organs of the body, especially neck, shoulder, lumbago and leg pain. In addition to being warm and hot, salt is also used to enter the kidney meridian, so it is effective in treating joint pain caused by cold.
2 medicine hot compress
select the traditional Chinese medicine with the effect of dispelling wind and cold, warming meridian, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, and using decocted liquid to treat some cold diseases and pain, and the effect is better.
experts suggest that patients with light disease can make hot compress at home, and should be treated by TCM syndrome differentiation, using specific drugs and other treatments.
in addition, the chronic diarrhea of people with deficiency cold constitution can use 50 grams of dried ginger, Psoralea and cuttlebone, 500 ml of water for 20 minutes with water, and hot compress around the navel with the juice, and apply for 20 to 30 minutes a day. Hot powder can also be used for hot compress.
hot compress into four mistakes:
not everyone is suitable for hot compress
skin feeling insensitive or abnormal people, such as the elderly, children, diabetes with neuropathy and stroke patients, should not be blind hot compress. If you need hot compress, you must pay attention to the temperature control, otherwise it is easy to scald.
not all cases can be hot compress
skin with ulceration or skin disease, to avoid skin lesions on the surface of hot compress, to prevent infection or irritation of skin disease, aggravating symptoms.
in addition, acute soft tissue injury such as sprain, strain, and other acute soft tissue injury, subcutaneous blood stasis, 24 - 48 hours should not be hot, otherwise it will aggravate local swelling.
no disease is suitable for hot compress
hot compress is mainly for cold diseases, so patients with warm symptoms are not suitable for hot compress. This kind of crowd often appears to be easy to get angry, especially heat, or accompanied by halitosis and constipation. Women also show excessive menstruation.
hot compress is by no means the hotter, the better the temperature of
hot compress should not be too high, usually 40 - 50 degrees Celsius, hot compress for about 20 minutes. If the skin is tender, the temperature should be lower.
at the same time, avoid hot compress in one place for a long time, otherwise it is easy to cause scald. The most common thing is that the improper use of hot water bag leads to scald of skin.