Can I take a medicated bath twice a day?

It is best to take a medicinal bath 1-2 times a day, each time 15-30 minutes.

Medicinal bath is one of the external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine. For the purpose of treatment or health preservation, it bathes the whole body or a part of the body with liquid medicine or water containing liquid medicine. It mainly includes: full body bath, sitz bath and foot bath. Medicinal bath has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, warming channels and dispelling cold, relieving swelling and pain, clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling wind and relieving itching, and harmonizing viscera. As long as the water temperature is well controlled, medicated bath is still a very safe treatment and health preservation method. The frequency of bathing should start from one day 1 time, and each time 15 minutes or so. When the procedure is proficient, the times and duration of soaking in medicinal bath can be gradually increased, but in principle, the times should not exceed 2 times a day and the time should not exceed 30 minutes.

There are many benefits of medicated bath, but we also need to know some precautions: patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should use medicated bath with caution; It is not advisable to take medicine bath on an empty stomach; If the skin is scalded or allergic after medicated bath, you need to see a doctor in time.