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On April 10, 2006, local news reported that a sick man fainted and was confirmed dead after being sent to the hospital during a medicinal bath treatment at a traditional Chinese medicine clinic. The cause of death is still under further investigation, but the incident serves as a warning to patients who use medicinal baths for self-treatment at home not to take it lightly.
Medicinal baths are a type of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation and washing therapy. Their function is to use temperature and the effects of medicinal substances to enter the skin pores and reach the internal organs through the meridians, acting locally or systemically to dilate blood vessels, promote local and systemic blood and lymphatic circulation, regulate metabolic mechanisms, and improve local tissue nutrition and overall body function.
There are many types of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation and washing therapies, and the prescriptions and methods used vary depending on the different diseases and through syndrome differentiation and treatment. Medicinal baths also have many contraindications, such as for some acute infectious diseases, severe heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, kidney disease, as well as after eating, when hungry, or overly fatigued. Full-body medicinal baths are not advisable in these cases or should only be conducted under the supervision of a physician.
For self-treatment with medicinal baths at home, it is necessary to follow the doctor's advice according to the type and severity of the patient's illness and to proceed under safe and suitable conditions. As for safer self-administered fumigation and washing therapies, doctors mostly recommend foot baths. For those who are usually afraid of cold, have cold hands and feet, or have a weak constitution, soaking and washing their feet with warm water before bedtime (especially in cold seasons) and then vigorously rubbing the soles of their feet can not only protect against cold and keep warm but also strengthen the kidneys, relieve fatigue, promote sleep, delay aging, prevent colds, and even have preventive and therapeutic effects on various diseases such as coronary heart disease and hypertension.
Source: http://www. takungpao. com/ news/ 06/ 04/ 10/ GY- 550357. htm
Caution Required for Medicinal Bath Therapy
Medicinal baths are a type of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation and washing therapy. Their function is to use temperature and the effects of medicinal substances to enter the skin pores and reach the internal organs through the meridians, acting locally or systemically to dilate blood vessels, promote local and systemic blood and lymphatic circulation, regulate metabolic mechanisms, and improve local tissue nutrition and overall body function.
There are many types of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation and washing therapies, and the prescriptions and methods used vary depending on the different diseases and through syndrome differentiation and treatment. Medicinal baths also have many contraindications, such as for some acute infectious diseases, severe heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, kidney disease, as well as after eating, when hungry, or overly fatigued. Full-body medicinal baths are not advisable in these cases or should only be conducted under the supervision of a physician.
For self-treatment with medicinal baths at home, it is necessary to follow the doctor's advice according to the type and severity of the patient's illness and to proceed under safe and suitable conditions. As for safer self-administered fumigation and washing therapies, doctors mostly recommend foot baths. For those who are usually afraid of cold, have cold hands and feet, or have a weak constitution, soaking and washing their feet with warm water before bedtime (especially in cold seasons) and then vigorously rubbing the soles of their feet can not only protect against cold and keep warm but also strengthen the kidneys, relieve fatigue, promote sleep, delay aging, prevent colds, and even have preventive and therapeutic effects on various diseases such as coronary heart disease and hypertension.
Source: http://www. takungpao. com/ news/ 06/ 04/ 10/ GY- 550357. htm