Do plasters belong to medical devices

No.

Medical devices are instruments, equipment, apparatus, in vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrators, materials, and other similar or related items used directly or indirectly in the human body, including required computer software.

Utility is obtained primarily by physical and other means, not by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, or is involved but only in an ancillary manner.

Purposes are the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of disease; the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation, or functional compensation of injury; the examination, replacement, regulation, or support of physiological structures or processes; the support or maintenance of life; the control of pregnancy; and the provision of information for medical or diagnostic purposes by the examination of specimens from the human body.

Poultices are a kind of traditional Chinese medicine for external use, anciently known as thin stickers, which are made of vegetable or animal oils boiled down with medicines to form a gelatinous substance, coated on one side of the cloth, paper or skin, which can be applied to the affected area for a longer period of time, and are mainly used for the treatment of sores, elimination of swellings and pains, and so on.

Plasters play a role through the skin plaster therapy is one of the commonly used external treatment methods in Chinese medicine clinics, which follows the principle of Chinese medicine and the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, the main treatment and attribution of the principle of fully mobilizing the effectiveness of the drugs coordinated with each other for the use of the effectiveness of the composition of multi-flavored drugs, in order to give play to the good effect of the drugs.

Because the plaster is directly applied to the surface of the body, and most of the drugs used in the production of plasters have a strong odor, and then added to the pungent and strong to go to the meridian drugs, through the infiltration of the skin, internal transmission of the meridians, internal organs, and play a role in regulating the qi and blood, through the meridians and channels, dispersal of cold and dampness, and eliminate the role of swelling and pain.

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