External Treatment With Herbal Medicines

Herbal Medicines

       External treatment with herbal medicines for rehabilitation is also a method which is meant to apply decoctions, juice or paste of herbal medicines generally, locally or on certain acupoints of the patient's body by way of steaming, steeping, bathing, scalding or pasting, in order to recover patient from his disease. The external treatment shares the same theoretical basis with the internal treatment; it must also be exercised on the principle of "diagnosis and treatment based on overall analysis of symptoms, signs, the cause, nature, location of the illness and the patient's physical condition," that is, making up a prescription according to whether the syndrome is exterior or interior, coldness or heat, deficiency or excess.  Main therapies of external treatment with herbal medicines are introduced as follows:

Steaming Therapy
This means steaming the patient's boby with the steam produced by boiling certain herbal medicines, so as to promote his recovery from a disease.  The combined effect of warmness- heat and herbal medicines may induce diaphoresis and disperse expathogen from the striae of skin and muscles, and help qi and blood flow smoothly.  This therapy has the efficacies of warming the channels to expel pathogenic cold and promoting blood circulation to remove obstruction in the channels, and is usually used in the rehabilitation from common cold of wind-cold type, arthralgia syndrome due to pathogenic wind-dampness, strain of muscles or tendons, flaccidity syndrome and  paralysis.Senile chronic bronchitis: The following herbal me dicines are usually used in the treatment of the disease.

Prepared white mustard seed, Semen Sinapis Albae Prae- parata    21 g
Corydalis tuber, Rhizoma Corydalis    12g
Wild ginger, Herba Asari    12g
Kansui root, Radix Euphorbiae Kansui    21g
Fresh ginger, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens    60g

The first four herbal medicines are ground into fine powder, while fresh ginger is washed, pounded and the juice is squeezed out.  The powder and the juice are mixed together, forming a pile of paste.  Divide the paste into six parts, one on each piece of oilpaper.  Each oilpaper is 5 cm in diameter and each part of paste is 3 cm in diameter.  Put the six plasters on the acupoints of bilateral Feishu (UB 13), Xinshu (UB 15) and Geshu (UB 17), fix them with adhesive tape.  Keep them there for 4-6 hours before taking them off.  Usually, the treatment is given once every 10-day period of dog days (usually consisting of three 10-day periods) for 3 successive years.  That the disease becomes severe in winter, but gets treated in summer has the advantage of  abundant sun heat other than drugs themselves, hence, satis-factory  therapeutical results are obtained.  If ginger moxibustion or plum-blossom needle tapping are conducted on those acupoints before the plaster are covered, the therapeutical effects will be better. Modern researches have proved that this therapy may increase human nonspecific immunity, alleviate allergy and invigorate the function of the thalamus-hy pophysis-adrenal cortex system.

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