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The use of hot compress to treat certain diseases has a history of more than 2,000 years in my country. It is called "ironing" method in "Inner Canon of Medicine". There were many methods of applying hot compress in ancient times, including medicine ironing, soup ironing, wine ironing, onion ironing, earth ironing and so on. So what are the methods of hot compress with traditional Chinese medicine?

(I) Moist heat compress

Hot compress is an effective treatment method, which is usually used after manual therapy. It can not only enhance the therapeutic effect of the manipulation, but also reduce the adverse reactions caused by improper manipulation. -

1. Damp-heat prescription

(1) Traditional massage hot compress recipe

Ingredients: 10g safflower, 15g cassia twig, 10g frankincense, 10g myrrh, 50g sophora japonica, 50g camphor wood, 10g papaya, 15g old lithospermum, 15g smilax glabra, 10g diatomaceous earthworm, 15g rhizoma spatholobi, 15g smilax glabra, and 15g millennium health. -

Indications: joint sprains and bruises, cold-dampness arthralgia, joint pain, etc. -

(2) Simplified massage and hot compress recipe

Ingredients: 50g camphor wood, 30g sissoo, 50g mulberry branch, 50g knotweed root. -

Main indications: pain and swelling caused by sprains and contusions, and limb soreness, etc. -

(3) Pittosporum tobira bark soup

Ingredients: Pittosporum tobira bark 6g, Polygonum aviculare 6g, frankincense 6g, myrrh 6g, angelica 5g, Sichuan pepper 10g, Chuanxiong 3g, safflower 3g, Clematis 2g, Angelica dahurica 2g, Licorice 2g, Saposhnikovia divaricata 2g. -

Indications: persistent pain caused by trauma. -

(4) Acanthopanax bark soup

Composition: Angelica 10g, Myrrh 10g, Acanthopanax Cortex 10g, Saltpeter 10g, Green Peel 10g, Sichuan Pepper 10g, Cyperus 10g, Clove 3g, Musk 0.3g, Old Onion 3g, Rehmannia Glutinosa 3g, Cortex Moutan 6g. -

Indications: blood stasis and pain after injury. -

(5) Sanyu Heshang Decoction

Ingredients: 15g of Strychnos nux vomica, 5g of safflower, 15g of raw pinellia, 10g of drynaria, 10g of licorice, and 30g of scallion roots. After boiling the water, add 60g of vinegar. -

Indications: injuries caused by falls, and blood stasis. -

(6) Eight Immortals Xiaoyao Soup

Ingredients: 3g of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 3g of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, 3g of Licorice root, 3g of Phellodendron chinense, 6g of Phellodendron chinense, 10g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 10g of Moutan bark, 10g of Sichuan pepper, and 15g of Sophora flavescens. -

Indications: swelling and pain on the body surface caused by falls, rheumatic pain, limb soreness, etc.

(ii) Dry hot compress

1. Qi-regulating and pain-relieving prescription

Ingredients: 500g salt. -

Indications: chest and abdominal fullness and pain, bloating and pain due to qi stagnation. -

Operation: Put the salt in a pot and heat it on the stove. Then take a cloth bag and put the heated salt into it. Let the patient lie on his back, place a cloth bag wrapped in salt on the patient's chest, and then slowly move the bag from the chest to the abdomen, and repeat this several times. -

2. Prescription for removing stagnation

Ingredients: 30g Citrus aurantium, 30g Radish Seed, 1 piece of Gleditsia sinensis, 15g salt. -

Indications: Food stagnation and phlegm stagnation in the stomach. -

Procedure: Grind the above medicines into powder, stir-fry with white wine, then wrap it in cloth and apply it to the stomach while it is still hot. -

3. Warming Phlegm Recipe

Ingredients: 1 raw aconite, 30g ginger. -

Indications: Children with cold phlegm in the chest, temporary coma, and when awake they spit out phlegm that is like mung bean powder, thick and green in color. -

Procedure: Mash the above medicines together and stir-fry until hot. Use another cloth bag and put the crushed and fried aconite and ginger into the bag. Apply the bag to the child's back first and then to the chest. When the bag is not too hot, take out the aconite and ginger from the bag, make them into round cakes, and stick them on the child's chest. -