The Principle of Traditional Chinese Herbal Plaster

Author: Kongdy Patch

Date: 08 29，2022

In the development of traditional Chinese medicine, herbal plaster plays an important role for a long history, which belongs to the Paste of 5 traditional medicines: Pills, Powder, Paste, Dan and Soup.

It was recorded as early as in the "Shan Hai Jing": boil the vegetable oil or animal oil with Chinese herbal medicine into the gelatinous substance, and apply it on the skin. Such as the grease of wether, is usually used to prevent the chapped of skin, which is the most primitive plaster.  Alchemy was popular in the Wei-jin Period, black plasters come into the world, and the preparation of black plasters gradually improved in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the treatment of plasters in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been widely used. There are related records of plasters in famous Chinese ancient medical works such as "Huangdi Neijing", "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", and "Treatise on Febrile Miscellaneous Diseases". To this day, plasters and relevant therapy are still playing an important role and doing contributions to human health.

01. Do You Know About The Traditional Chinese Herbal Plaster?

Skin and pores have the effect of absorption: Skin plays a very important role in the physiology, pathology and treatment of the human body. In the theory of meridians, skin is the part of body surface, on which the meridian function is reflected, also It's where the collateral energy spreads. The skin resides in the outermost layer of the human body and is the protective barrier of body, as well as the receptor and effector.

02. The principle of action of plaster:

The Chinese Herbal plaster should apply to the acupuncture points, make it forming a sealed state in the local area, which could increases the water content of the stratum corneum from 5% to 50%, and promotes the opening of the occluded sweat gland pores, which can form the advantage of concentrated medication in the local area and reach the lesion parts of body, so that there is a large amount of effective ingredients of the medicine Agglomerated in the affected tissues, and through transdermal absorption and meridian stimulation, dredge the meridians, open up the blood vessels, improve the nutrition of the surrounding tissues, and achieve the effects of reducing swelling, anti-inflammatory and repairing diseased tissues.