The common methods to treat kidney disease are dialysis and kidney transplantation. But dialysis has huge side effects and kidney transplantation cost high. Therefore more and more patients tend to take traditional Chinese treatment, such as medicated bath. Traditional Chinese medicated bath has thousands of years’ history in china. From Qing dynasty, medicated bath as an effective therapy has been highly praised.
What is the cure mechanism of medicated bath?
Skin is the largest organ of human being and it has many functions including secretion, excretion, absorption, penetration, sensation, etc. Medicated bath therapy is to take advantage of these features. Its cure mechanism has local and overall aspects. On one hand, the medicines in the bath can directly act on the skin, muscles, joint so as to improve the metabolism of the skin, muscles and joint and recover their functions; on the other hand, these active ingredients in the medicines can be absorbed through skin, meridians and acupuncture points and enter into blood circulation and help regulate the disorders and imbalances in the internal body and improve the functions of internal organs and systems.
What is more, stimulation of hot water can expand the blood vessels and promote local and systemic blood and lymph circulations, thus promoting metabolism and increasing the supply of blood, oxygen and other necessary nutritions to damaged tissues and organs so that the disease will be recovered.
Medicated bath is an external application. The active ingredients will enter into the blood circulation through the skin and the efficacy will not be damaged by the stomach and intestine, therefore it has quicker effects compared with orally intaked medicines. And medicated baht will not increase additional burdens to the liver. What is more, this therapy is very comfortable and cause no side effects or injuries to the body. Therefore it is called a green therapy and is becoming more and more popular among patients.
