The therapeutic source of wet compress therapy

Judging from the existing literature, the wet compress (wet compress) prescription was first seen in "Elbow Backup Urgent Prescription", which contained: "You Dan Qian began to immerse himself in the long and small Dan tackled the prescription". Liu's "Ghost Legacy Prescription" called this prescription "catching soup prescription", and described two methods of cold compress and hot compress, namely "making it extremely cold to catch swelling" and "warming sores" and "keeping wet". By the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao's Prescription for Preparing a Thousand Daughters for Emergency included several prescriptions, such as Xiaozhong Prescription, Prescription for Treating Carbuncle at the Beginning, Prescription for Redundancy and Fever Growing Quickly, Prescription for Detumescence of Cimicifuga, Prescription for Treating Rhubarb, etc. The specific usage methods are also discussed: "Therefore, the fourth silk is in the juice", "Therefore, the second silk is in the soup", "It is easy to dry after grasping, and it lasts for hundreds of days and nights" and "it is often wet". This is completely consistent with the wet compress method commonly used in clinic now.