How to treat body odor with traditional Chinese medicine

Body odor is called "body odor", "fox dryness", "body odor" and "Hu odor" in traditional Chinese medicine. As early as "The Secret of Wai Tai", it said: "The source of the disease is armpit odor, such as the gas of onion and black bean, or the gas of fox, so it is called body odor. Because of the disharmony between qi and blood, the gas stinks ... After elbow treatment, the human body and armpits are like body odor, which is called Hu odor in the world." Hu Shi, a physician in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "The Axillary Qi of the Pearl Boat": "Today, the axillary qi is a fox odor, and the fox is a Hu. Therefore, there is a cloud in Qian Jin Fang:' There is a smell of nature'. "

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause of body odor and patients are congenital, inheriting the dirty gas under the armpit of parents, smoking outside and coming out from the armpit; Or because of overeating spicy and thick products, damp heat is accumulated in sweat pores; Or it is caused by hot weather and thick clothes, so that body fluids can not flow freely, leading to the precipitation of damp heat and turbid gas, which fumigates the body and skin. Moxibustion with garlic paste is very effective in treating this disease, and it is simple and easy to operate. You might as well give it a try.

The method is to take a comfortable lying position and fully expose the affected part, shave off the hair of the affected part, mix high-quality starch into paste, apply it to the affected part, and when the starch is naturally air-dried, take a proper amount of garlic, peel and mash it to make a garlic cake with a thickness of about 0.3 cm. Punch a few holes in the middle with a sewing needle to make the affected part see thicker sweat glands. Put the garlic cake on the affected part and rub pure moxa sticks with one thumb and two fingers. Make a cone-shaped moxa cone with a round top and the size of peanuts, put it on the garlic cake, and light it from the top of the moxa cone with thread incense, so that it spontaneously turns into ashes, or when the patient feels burning at the moxibustion site, take the moxa cone out and replace it with a strong one, and then continue moxibustion with a strong one as before, no matter how strong it is, until the patient feels warm and comfortable. Once a day, moxibustion lasts about 30 minutes each time, and 10 is 1 course of treatment. After resting for 5 days, according to the atrophy and smell of coarse sweat glands and the degree of sweat reduction (disappearance), consolidate treatment every other day or twice a week as before until it is completely cured.

In the early stage of this method, high-quality starch was mixed into paste and applied to the affected area. The reason is that after starch reacts with sweat, thicker sweat glands can be fully exposed, preparing for the second moxibustion with garlic paste to find the "goal" of moxibustion.

Garlic mud moxibustion, also known as garlic money moxibustion, was first recorded in Jin's "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription". Moxibustion with garlic paste directly on sweat glands can promote qi circulation and blood circulation, promote camp defense, and suck poison out of the body, that is, the so-called "dispersing poison, shifting light to heavy, turning deep to shallow", which makes sweat glands in thicker parts atrophy and die on their own, thus reducing (disappearing) odor and sweat, and body odor disappears.

The above operations need to be carried out with the help of a doctor, and must not be tried alone to prevent injury due to improper operation.