The efficacy and effects of Chinese medicine bathing

In daily life, taking Chinese medicine for conditioning is very common. In addition, Chinese medicine bathing is one of the traditional treatments in Chinese medicine, and has been highly valued by the medical community since ancient times. So what Chinese medicinal materials can dispel cold and dampness? Which Chinese medicinal materials can dispel cold when taking a bath? Let's take a look at the main benefits of taking a bath.

What are the Chinese medicinal materials that can dispel cold and dampness?

1. Ginger slices: Ginger slices are our most common condiment. It is also an essential condiment for Chinese medicinal materials. It is an aromatic spicy stomachic and digestive medicine. It has the effects of warming, stimulating, sweating, stopping vomiting, and detoxifying. It is especially effective for detoxifying fish and crab poisoning, and poisoning by drugs such as Pinellia and Arisaema. It is suitable for treating wind-cold, headache, phlegm, cough, stomach-cold and vomiting. After being attacked by wind, snow, liquid or severe cold, drink ginger and sugar water immediately to improve blood circulation and drive away dampness.

2. Elsholtzia: Elsholtzia is the dried above-ground part of the Lamiaceae plants Elsholtzia ovata and Elsholtzia ovata. The main producing areas are Guangxi Province, Hunan Province, Hebei Province and other places. Harvested in summer and autumn, dried, cut into strips and used raw. Traditionally, it is believed that Elsholtzia has the effects of promoting sweating, replenishing deficiency and dispersing cold, clearing away heat and dampness, neutralizing, and promoting dampness and reducing swelling.

3. Piper citrate: Piper citrate is a Chinese medicinal material with warming properties. It is used for chest pain, vomiting, nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal pain due to cold hernia, and turbid urine caused by dampness and cold stagnation.

4. Qianghuo: dispels cold, expel wind, removes dampness and relieves pain. Used for colds, headaches, rheumatism, arthralgia, and shoulder and back pain.

5. Xanthium sibiricum: Xanthium sibiricum is a traditional Chinese medicine for rheumatism. It is mainly used to treat: dissipate cold symptoms, clear nasal passages, eliminate rheumatism and relieve pain.

6. Lu Te Technology: restores yang and rescues adverse conditions, clears and replenishes the spleen and kidneys, dispels cold and relieves pain. It is very pungent and hot, and can promote yang and expel cold.

7. Cinnamon powder: Suitable for people who are usually afraid of cold, have cold limbs and feet, severe cold stomach pain, poor appetite, vomiting of cold water, dull pain in the abdomen and prefer warmth, and intestinal rumbling and diarrhea.