Smoke therapy is an ancient means of disease prevention and treatment, which can be traced back to primitive society at the earliest. In primitive society, people used leaves, firewood and so on. Ignite and smoke a certain part and find that it can relieve or eliminate pain, which may be the origin of smoking method.
The earliest record of fumigation in medical works is Fifty-two Diseases Prescription, which records the treatment of epilepsy, hemorrhoids, burns, scars, dry itching, snake injuries and other diseases by fumigation. For example, direct fumigation, burying under mats, putting in containers, digging and burning drugs underground, burning drugs and other methods.
There was also smoke therapy in Qin and Han Dynasties. The smoke cage unearthed from Mawangdui No.1 Han Tomb is the earliest visible smoke cage.
There is a statement in Neijing that "the cold is hot, and the heat is cold" ...... "Rub bath" ("Rub bath" means fumigation and washing). In the synopsis of the golden chamber by Zhang Zhongjing in the Han Dynasty, there are records of burning realgar and taking smoked anus to cure fox chaos. Huatuo adopted fumigation and washing therapy in gastrointestinal surgery.
Li Long Parallel Prose, written by Wu Shangxian (Wu Shiji), a master of external governance in Qing Dynasty, made great contributions to fumigation therapy. This book makes a thorough and systematic exposition on the theoretical basis, mechanism of action, syndrome differentiation and treatment, drug selection, application methods, indications, indications and matters needing attention of fumigation and washing therapy. It is a milestone in the history of fumigation therapy to make fumigation therapy rise to a theoretical level on the basis of thousands of years of clinical application, and creatively apply fumigation therapy to clinic under the guidance of its theory, so as to make fumigation therapy develop to a more perfect level.
Since the founding of New China, the cause of traditional Chinese medicine has made great progress, especially since the 1990s, fumigation and washing therapy has made great progress and has become a common method to treat some diseases.
Fumigation is a kind of treatment method that uses the smoke generated by the combustion of a drug to fumigate, and with the help of the power and heat of the drug, it can kill insects, sterilize, relieve pain, relieve itching and drive away malodorous and dirty gases. Fumigation and washing method is to make use of the permeability of medicinal smoke and the absorption function of skin, and act on the muscle surface through the combined force of heat and medicine, so as to spread the meridians and viscera inside, so as to achieve the purposes of eliminating evil spirits, dredging qi, regulating viscera, sterilizing and relieving itching, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. This method is not only used to treat some skin diseases and surgical sores, but also commonly used for air disinfection. When fumigating the focus with medicinal smoke, it can stimulate local body surface, dilate local blood vessels, accelerate blood flow, improve the nutrition of surrounding tissues, and play an anti-inflammatory and detumescence role; The local action of drugs stimulates the body's self-regulation through nerve reflex, which makes the body produce some antibodies, thus improving the body's immunity; In addition, the warmth of drugs can play a role in warming meridians and dredging collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold. Through the adjustment of meridians, it can tonify deficiency and diarrhea, promote the balance of yin and yang, and play a role in disease prevention and health care.
Moxibustion (also known as grass moxibustion) is a kind of smoke therapy, which sucks smoke into the lungs in a way similar to smoking, and the smoke extends to the whole body through penetrating capillaries, quickly opening up the microcirculation of the whole body and solving the blockage problem of microcirculation disorder; Quickly clean up the garbage in human body fluids, decompose and discharge the blood toxins accumulated in the body for many years, speed up blood circulation, and conduct fragrant moxibustion on every cell of the whole body to make the cells full of oxygen, thus activating the cells of the whole body and making our body reach the health standards as much as possible.