Can stomach pain, abdominal pain, shoulder and neck pain and joint pain of waist and legs be solved by hot compress salt bag?

There is a traditional folk therapy to relieve shoulder pain-coarse salt hot compress. Many patients with joint pain in waist and legs feel quite effective after trial. In fact, crude salt hot compress is also a Chinese medicine therapy. It is to put the heated crude salt or some Chinese herbal medicines into a cloth bag and apply it to the waist and leg joints or other parts, which can not only warm the body, but also dispel wind and cold, promote qi circulation and blood circulation, and relieve pain.

Why can crude salt hot compress relieve the pain of waist and leg joints?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "warming the meridians, the general principles do not hurt." Its principle is that applying hot objects to painful parts can eliminate and relieve pain, and it is especially suitable for treating various cold diseases. Applying hot raw salt to some parts of the body can relieve pain.

External application of fried raw salt is an ancient Chinese medicine therapy. Because raw salt is heated evenly and is not easy to cool after heating, it can achieve the effect of local hot compress. The heated crude salt can not only make the hot air penetrate into the body, but also suck out the moisture and cold in the body, which has the functions of warming meridians, activating collaterals, expelling wind and dispelling cold and relieving pain. It has obvious effects on backache, arthralgia, stomachache, diarrhea and chills.

Hot compress with coarse salt can relieve these pains.

1. Shoulder and neck pain

For people who face computers for a long time, it is easy to have symptoms such as shoulder and neck pain and stiffness, scapulohumeral periarthritis and cervical spondylosis. This is mainly because keeping a posture for a long time, the shoulders are cold, leading to poor local blood circulation. It can also be directly applied to the painful part with a coarse salt bag, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dispelling cold and removing dampness.

In addition, for neck pain and rotation stiffness caused by stiff neck, coarse salt bags can also be used for hot compress, which can play the role of expelling wind and cold, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.

2. Gynecological diseases such as dysmenorrhea and palace cold.

There will always be a few days every month, and women are very upset and painful. They must not only endure physical discomfort, but also restrain mental irritability.

Dysmenorrhea is mostly caused by poor menstrual blood and cold uterus. Therefore, adding salt to the palace point (4 inches below the navel and 3 inches beside it) and Shenque point (navel) can quickly eliminate the palace cold and relieve the pain. If some traditional Chinese medicines, such as motherwort and safflower, are added to the salt bag, the effect will be better.

3. Stomach ache

Applying hot salt to the stomach can relieve stomach spasm, straighten out stomach qi and relieve pain caused by cold. In addition, hot compress can also treat diarrhea caused by cold, dispel cold and relieve pain.

4. Low back and leg pain

Lumbar and leg joint pain bothers many people. No matter what season, as long as the waist and leg joints are cold or overworked, they will be painful. Especially in rainy or cold weather, the air humidity increases and the temperature decreases, which leads to the invasion of moisture and cold at the waist and leg joints, resulting in pain at the waist and leg joints.

In view of the pain of waist and leg joints caused by the invasion of cold and dampness, the coarse salt bag is applied to the buttocks or waist and back for 20 minutes each time, 2-3 times, which can warm the meridians and dispel the cold and dampness in the body. Many patients with waist and leg joint pain will choose to use household salt bag hot compress for self-treatment, and the pain will be relieved, all because it has the functions of expelling wind, dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming meridians and relieving pain.

It is the theory that "warming is the only way to relieve pain" in traditional Chinese medicine that makes many experienced doctors or patients with chronic low back and leg pain who have been ill for a long time tend to choose some traditional Chinese medicines, such as Yaotongning, which have the functions of dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming meridians and dredging collaterals, and relieving swelling and pain, to relieve low back and leg pain more effectively through salt bag hot compress and massage physiotherapy.

Although the crude salt hot compress is good, we should beware of the 4-point hot compress misunderstanding

Crude salt hot compress is also particular, not all pain can be treated with crude salt hot compress. Many people will have the misunderstanding of hot compress. Don't let hot compress "do bad things with good intentions". Pay special attention to hot compress at home.

1. Not everyone is suitable for hot compress.

People with insensitive or abnormal skin feelings, such as the elderly, children, diabetic neuropathy and stroke patients, should not blindly apply hot compress. If you need hot compress, be sure to control the temperature, otherwise it will be easy to burn.

2. Not all boxes can be hot-pressed.

If the skin has ulceration or dermatosis, avoid hot compress on the surface of the lesion to prevent infection or irritation of dermatosis and aggravate symptoms. In addition, in the early stage of acute soft tissue injury such as sprain and strain, there is blood stasis under the skin, so it is not suitable for hot compress within 24-48 hours, otherwise it will aggravate local swelling.

Not all diseases are suitable for hot compress.

Hot compress is mainly aimed at cold diseases, so patients with warm diseases should not be hot compressed. This kind of people tend to get angry easily, especially afraid of heat, or accompanied by bad breath and constipation, and women also show excessive menstrual flow.

4. Hot compress is not as hot as possible.

The temperature of hot compress should not be too high, generally 40 to 50 degrees Celsius, and the hot compress lasts for about 20 minutes. If hot compress is applied to delicate parts of the skin, the temperature needs to be lower. At the same time, it is necessary to avoid being fixed in one place for a long time, otherwise it is easy to cause burns.