(1) Easy-to-use medicated bath therapy is simple and convenient to operate, and it is suitable for family self-treatment, especially for patients with poor medical conditions and inconvenient medical treatment. No matter in the preparation or use of bath liquid, it can be used anytime and anywhere, and is not limited by environmental conditions. As for the equipment used, most of them are household items, such as pots, barrels, altars, casseroles, towels, cloth pieces, stools, chairs and so on. Some commonly used drugs can also be used locally, such as onion, garlic, pepper, alum, salt, vinegar and so on. As for some drugs, they can be purchased on demand, which is very convenient for family use and easy to popularize.
(2) Medicated bath therapy has a long history and is widely used. After a long period of historical verification, it has been constantly summed up and innovated, and its application range is quite wide. It is not only suitable for surgery such as sores, swelling, dermatoses and poisonous insect bites, but also suitable for diseases such as internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, andrology, orthopedics and ent. At present, there are more than 100 kinds of diseases that can be used in clinic. In particular, medicated bath therapy can not only cure diseases, but also prevent diseases, so it is more suitable for people with physical weakness. In addition, medicated bath therapy also has a cosmetic effect, and has a good curative effect on acne, freckles and verruca plana.
(3) The drugs used in medicated bath therapy are relatively simple, and most of them have only a few or even a single drug. The dosage used is usually very small, only110 of the oral dosage, or even less. However, its function is to directly contact the affected part, which can shorten the distance from the absorbed drug to the affected part to the maximum extent, so that the effective components of the drug can reach the affected part in a short time and produce immediate results. In addition, skin administration is beneficial to the formation of blood drug concentration needed for treatment in a short time, which avoids the damage of digestive juice and liver to the effective components of drugs to a certain extent, thus promoting the therapeutic effect to play a good role.
(4) Safe and reliable Because the medicated bath therapy acts on the skin and muscle surface, it can avoid the stimulation of drugs on the gastrointestinal tract, reduce the burden on the liver, change "bitter medicine" into "good medicine" for external use, and avoid the pain of injection. Therefore, medicinal bath therapy generally does not have adverse reactions. Even if the patient is unwell, it is easy to observe the condition at any time and decide to stop treatment. Therefore, medicated bath therapy is safer and more reliable than other therapies such as oral administration.
(V) Significant curative effect Clinical practice has proved that medicated bath therapy has a good curative effect on many diseases, especially in the treatment of certain diseases such as surgery, orthopedics and dermatology, such as eczema, psoriasis and vaginitis. It is obviously superior to oral therapy, and its unique curative effect is irreplaceable by other therapies.
Finally, it needs to be explained that medicated bath therapy can not only avoid the disadvantages of patients' fear of injection pain and bitter medicine taking, but also achieve the purpose of treating diseases and preventing diseases through simple external treatment and make up for the deficiency of internal treatment, so it is accepted by the majority of patients.