What Are the Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine Packages?

Traditional Chinese medicine packet therapy is one of the traditional external treatment methods in Chinese medicine, widely used in various diseases of internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, and surgery. It has the advantage of directly applying drugs to the affected area without absorption and metabolism through the digestive tract. According to the patient's symptoms, signs, and four diagnostic methods, different functional traditional Chinese medicines are selected, powdered, mixed with water or honey-like auxiliary materials, and placed on the affected area. It can play a role in dispelling wind and relieving itching, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing heat and detoxifying, eliminating dampness and reducing swelling, etc. This method is suitable for the treatment of focal diseases. For systemic multiple diseases, it is still necessary to combine with oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine for overall adjustment, and the effect is better.

In the hot compress prescription, raw Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii and raw Radix Aconiti Carmichaeli are used to dispel wind and eliminate dampness, warm meridians and dispel cold, and relieve pain; Cortex Cinnamomi disperses cold and dispels wind, and clears the blood vessels; Boswellia Carteri and Myrrha activate blood circulation and qi, reduce swelling and relieve pain; Rhizoma Chuanxiong activates blood circulation, dispels wind, and relieves pain; Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae resolves blood stasis, clears meridians, and relieves pain; Rhizoma Cyperi relieves depression and regulates qi to stop pain; Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae removes wind-dampness and relieves arthralgia; and Mulberry Twig removes wind-dampness and benefits joints. The whole prescription has the effects of dispelling wind, resolving dampness, dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving pain, etc. The affected area is applied with hot compress, and the drug can reach the diseased area directly through thermal action.

Traditional Chinese medicine packet therapy has therapeutic effects such as warming and unblocking meridians, reducing swelling and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, removing dampness and dispelling cold, strengthening tendons and bones. When used after the manipulation technique, it can enhance the treatment effect of the manipulation and reduce the adverse reactions caused by the manipulation stimulus to the local area of the body. Modern research has proved that the frequency of the heating wavelength of sea salt after heating is very similar to the frequency of the qi and blood of the human body's meridians. Therefore, ancient people used salt blocks for hot compress to treat diseases, regulate health, and use sea salt combined with symptomatic formulas of traditional Chinese medicine to treat various acute and chronic diseases after heating.