. There are many mosquitoes in summer and itch hard to bear after being bitten. In fact, using Chinese herbal medicine to boil water and bathe has the effect of eliminating diseases and mosquitoes. Here are some bath prescriptions that are especially suitable for current use. The medicinal materials used are common and easy to buy in pharmacies.
Disease and mosquito repellent medicine bath
is it better to use fresh or dry medicinal materials?
if it is a medicine bath, it is best to use dry products. Fresh products often have a smell of grass after boiling with water.
can the foot bath prescription be used for the whole body bath?
anyone who has experienced soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine knows that after soaking feet, there will be a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine on the feet, which can be dispersed in a few days. If you bathe with foot soaking formula, you may have taste all over the body and affect your daily life
herbal bath formula recommends
mosquito repellent and antipruritic formula: wormwood Perrin bath
wormwood or Perrin are aromatic herbs with the effect of preventing mosquito bites. You can bathe with 80g wormwood or 80g Perrin boiled water. Wormwood or Perrin boiled water bath can not only prevent mosquitoes and insects, but also relieve itching. After being bitten by mosquitoes, this medicine bath is also a good choice. This prescription can also be used for babies, but pregnant women should use it with caution.
dredging collaterals and relieving pain: Angelica dahurica bath
blowing air conditioner for a long time will cause discomfort such as neck and shoulder pain, waist and leg pain, headache and so on. You can use Angelica dahurica 100 grams of boiled water, cooked after adding appropriate amount of liquor, followed by bathing, can play the role of dredging meridians, activating pain and relieving pain. This prescription also has whitening effect on the skin.
sweating and antipyretic: Mint Bath
now the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is very large. If you are not careful, you will catch a cold. If you have a cold due to wind heat (fever, sore throat, headache, sticky nose, dry lips and tongue, etc.), you might as well try a mint bath. Take a bath with 60g of dry Mint boiled water, which can play a role in sweating and antipyretic. Bathing with mint boiled water is also helpful for eczema and dermatitis. If you have a cold (cold, runny nose and other symptoms), you might as well try perilla bath, that is, take a bath after boiling water with dry perilla.
special reminder
● if the elderly have cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease and hypertension, they should appropriately shorten the bathing time, and stop immediately if they feel uncomfortable halfway.
● dry medicinal materials can be put into the cloth bag of soup, and then boiled in water for easy cleaning after bath.
Children have delicate skin and higher skin temperature than adults, plus the unique & ldquo; Milky smell & rdquo;, Summer is the easiest time to be bitten by mosquitoes. Parents can choose the commonly used traditional Chinese medicine with fragrant smell, heat clearing and dampness removing, and give their children a cool and comfortable traditional Chinese medicine bath to keep the taste on the skin, which can not only make mosquitoes & ldquo; Stay away & rdquo;, It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying and relieving itching. It can also prevent and treat common skin diseases of infants and young children, such as heat rash, papular urticaria, eczema and so on. Here are two common & ldquo; Mosquito repellent Bath & rdquo; Bath prescription can be used according to specific conditions.
take 15 ~ 20g mint (or 15 ~ 20g clove and Perrin respectively, with the same method) and a piece of gauze. Wrap the mint with gauze and cook it in boiling water for 5 minutes. Turn off the fire immediately after the taste is slightly released, so as not to affect the efficacy due to too fast volatilization. Finally, take out the gauze medicine bag, and the medicine liquid can be used for bathing after it is cooled. When going out for a walk, you can also pour some mint water in the bottle for standby. After the child sweats too much or the smell volatilizes, use a towel to take mint water and rub it on the exposed skin.
Peppermint is a kind of vanilla. It tastes pungent and cool. It has the effects of relieving wind and heat, detoxifying and penetrating rash, cooling muscles, relieving itching, refreshing and refreshing. Because of its aromatic smell, it is widely used in external drugs such as toilet water, cooling oil and traditional Chinese medicine bag to drive away mosquitoes. The skin feels cool after Mint Bath. It is more suitable for children with long prickly heat, boils, depressed spirit or easy to be irritable and have a poor appetite.
clove flavor is pungent and warm, which can reduce inversion in temperature, remove turbidity and dampness, disperse cold and relieve pain; Perrin has a pungent taste and a flat nature. It is fragrant to remove dampness, invigorate the spleen and awaken the stomach, clear the heat and dispel turbidity. Both smell fragrant and are mosquito repellent & ldquo; Little expert & rdquo;, It is also a common medicine for removing dampness and filth in summer. The combination of the two drugs is good at removing dampness. It is more suitable for children with skin eczema, chest tightness, less food, nausea, abdominal distention and loose stools caused by heat dampness stagnation and coke.
when using it for the first time, apply it on the child’s skin in a small area, observe and confirm that there is no allergy, and then take a bath. If the mother is pregnant with a second child, contact should be avoided to avoid abortion.