The health care franchise expert recommends that patients with skin diseases can use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) steam therapy. The skin is the largest organ of the human body, with a large area and many pores. In addition to its protective function of defending against external evil invasions, it also has multiple functions such as secretion, absorption, penetration, excretion, and sensation. TCM steam therapy (also known as TCM vapor bath and vapor therapy) takes advantage of these physiological characteristics of the skin, allowing drugs to be absorbed through the surface layer of the skin, penetrate through the stratum corneum, and transfer into the dermis to enter the blood circulation and exert pharmacological effects. TCM steam therapy integrates various functions such as TCM therapy, heat therapy, vapor therapy, and TCM ion penetration therapy. It combines temperature, humidity, and drug concentration, treating diseases according to their nature, ensuring that drugs target symptoms effectively for treating various skin diseases.
Through thousands of years of TCM practice, it has been shown that TCM steam therapy highlights the characteristics of TCM and specialty expertise in the treatment of skin diseases. Compared to conventional therapies, it has the following three major advantages:
1. Administering drugs through the skin can avoid irritation to oral mucosa, digestive tract, and gastrointestinal tract, reduce the burden on the liver and kidneys, ensure that drugs target symptoms directly reaching the affected areas, thus increasing the utilization rate of drugs.
2. Natural drugs are green and environmentally friendly, safe and reliable, with unique therapeutic effects based on syndrome differentiation, providing medical benefits that cannot be achieved by oral medications.
3. Steam therapy expels evil toxins, making the treatment process feel like a "TCM sauna," helping to alleviate patient discomfort while greatly enhancing the patient's inherent ability to fight and cure diseases.
TCM steam therapy has good therapeutic effects on the following skin diseases: psoriasis, ichthyosis, eczema, acne, post-herpetic neuralgia from shingles, flat warts, neurodermatitis, cutaneous amyloidosis, erythema nodosum, chilblains, and pruritus.
Health care franchise experts remind that TCM steam therapy is not suitable for the following patients: patients with acute infectious diseases, severe heart disease, hypertension, severe anemia and dizziness, arteriosclerosis, pregnant and menstruating women, those with a tendency to bleed on the skin, and individuals who are allergic to drugs.