Cycle Therapy

1. Definition

Cycle therapy refers to such a treatment that crushing the Chinese medicines that can draw out toxin, smearing them on different body parts according to various diseases, and drawing out different toxins from blood tier with different medicines.

2. Function

Drawing out toxins: drawing out pathogenic factors in blood tier.

3. Diagnosing and determining cycle

▪ Find the reactive area of disease on the skin by meridian theory and palpation.

▪ Draw gyrate cycles on the reactive area with special Chinese medicines.

4. Administration

Once per day, draw gyrate cycles on each of reactive areas five times, circle clockwise in cold diseases whereas counterclockwise in heat diseases. 4-8 hours later, take a bath with warm water and wash the cycles.

Short course of treatment for seven days, long course of treatment for 49 days.

5. Short-term effects

Effective manifestations in cold disease: fever, red rash, thermal pain, sweating, tinnitus, increased appetite, etc.

Effective manifestations in heat disease: pale skin, black spots, sweating, sleepiness, tinnitus, diarrhea, etc.

6. Medication

Draw out toxic pathogenic factors with the nature of Chinese medicines and vortex suction

Use Chinese medicines that draw out cold-dampness to eliminate cold-dampness.

Use Chinese medicines that draw out damp-heat to eliminate damp-heat.

7. Precautions

This therapy is contraindicated in patients with allergic skin and sensitive physique, traumatic diabrosis and pregnant women.

Keep warm and do not open air-conditioning in summer.

Do not retain cycle overtime, otherwise skin will be damaged.

Encircle medicinal cycles with liquorice ointment or radix rehmanniae ointment, which means that earth restricts water and water restricts fire, lest pathogenic factors escape and root of disease cannot be removed.

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