2 English reference medicine ironing [Xiangya Medical Dictionary]
Thematic application of heated powder [Xiangya Medical Dictionary]
Hot bag method [Chinese medicine terminology Committee] Terminology of traditional Chinese medicine (20 13)]
3. Overview of ironing: 1. One of the treatment methods; 2. The name of the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine ophthalmology.
4 One of the external treatments, hot bag method is one of the external treatments [1]. It refers to the external treatment method of adding wine and vinegar to the medicine, rubbing the affected area with a cloth and dredging the acupuncture points to achieve the purpose of treatment [2]. See Historical Records Biography of Bian Que and Cang Gong. At present, drugs are often used less because of the inconvenience of frying and boiling, but simple hot compress is still widely used in clinic.
Huangdi Neijing Lingshu Hand Medicine Rigid and Soft: "Those who stab adults should be ironed with medicine [1]."
Due to the different drugs used, their names and functions are different [1]:
Wine can promote yang and dispel cold, so sudden cold attacks people's skin, so it is ironed with wine [1].
Rice vinegar can eliminate hardness and break knots, so it should be ironed with vinegar when gangrene occurs [1].
There are also salt ironing, onion ironing, ginger ironing, orange leaf ironing, silkworm excrement ironing and perilla ironing. All the medicines are put into a cloth bag and placed in the abdomen to make the medicine gas enter the abdomen, which plays the role of dispelling cold, eliminating evil and relieving pain [1].
4. 1 Principle of ironing method: stir-fry, cloth-wrap and scald the affected area; Or soak the cotton cloth in the medicinal juice and iron it while it is hot, so as to play the role of warming meridians, dredging collaterals, harmonizing qi and blood, warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold, and restoring yang to save the adverse events [3].
4.2 Indications Ironing is suitable for wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and epigastric pain [1].
Ironing is suitable for deficiency syndrome, cold syndrome and stagnation of menstrual qi [3].
It is suitable for syndromes such as wind-cold-dampness blocking bones and muscles, as well as incipient breast carbuncle or breast return.
4.3 Usage: Take 240g of red onion and mash it, mix it with the powder evenly, fry it with vinegar, iron the affected area with cloth, and change it when it is slightly cold. It has the effects of warming channels, dispelling wind and relieving pain, and is suitable for gangrene, excessive phlegm, unchanged skin color and sore bones and muscles. Another example is to take 80g of Glauber's salt, put it in a cloth bag, cover it on the part of * * *, and then put the hot water bag on the cloth bag to dissolve and absorb it, which has the function of reducing swelling and restoring milk, and is suitable for restoring milk at the beginning of breast abscess or during lactation.
4.4 Precautions: Listen to the patient's reaction to the thermal sensation of the treatment site at any time, so as not to cause skin burns. When the room is full of smoke, the air should be properly circulated.
Generally, Yang-syndrome swelling and ulcers are prohibited.
5 Chinese medicine ophthalmology external treatment method name ironing method