Thai Medicine
Burning medicine
Burning medicine is to take herbs such as turmeric, ginger, and galangal, pound them together, and place them on the stomach around the navel, then use a wet cloth to make a circle around it. Add a little salt and herbal oil, and cover it with another cloth and set it on fire. (Burning medicine can also be done on other muscles of the body, such as the shoulder muscles, back, and sciatica, etc.)
The benefits of burning medicine are: Used to treat symptoms of indigestion and flatulence.
- Use fire to create heat for the body or area to be treated.
- It is generally used for large muscle groups such as the abdomen, chest and back.
- Or use it to focus on treating specific areas such as the wrist, knee, and back of the knee.
** Mostly used to burn medicine in the abdominal area (around the navel), which is the origin of the ten main meridians along the body.
Examples of diseases that use this procedure
- Bloating but not bloated or sour burping
- Back pain, knee pain
- Hip pain
- Menstrual pain
- Constipation, no bloating
- Weak downward wind, numbness, cramps
- Snoring due to excessive phlegm in the chest
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- Applied Thai Medicine