Hair dryer is a common household appliance. It is a good helper to blow freshly washed hair and help dry clothes. However, hair dryer has become very popular on the Internet recently. On Weibo, many netizens teach how to use hair dryer to treat colds, cervical spondylosis and joint pain. However, the reporter learned from consulting the experts of traditional Chinese medicine in Nanjing yesterday that hair dryer has a similar effect to external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, but it can not replace conventional treatment. There are also many precautions for use. It is best to consult a doctor before use.
online rumors
how to cure a cold by blowing noodles with hot wind
“Tiedan Niang tried and strongly recommended a wonderful trick to prevent children’s colds: use the hot wind of an electric hair dryer to blow at the Dazhui point and Feishu point on the baby’s back for 10 minutes, immediately treat the initial symptoms of colds such as sneezing, runny nose and slight cough, and nip the cold in the cradle! Tiedan’s cold stopped like this a few days ago. This is a method told by an excellent pediatric elderly Chinese medicine, and it is effective. I share it with my mothers here.” The simple method of blowing acupoints with an electric hair dryer can cure a baby’s cold, which still makes many mothers eager to try. In addition, on a micro blog “tips for preventing and dealing with colds” that has been turned tens of thousands of times, there is also a message “hot air blowing noodles. At the beginning, you can blow hot air to your temples with an electric hair dryer for 3 to 5 minutes, several times a day.”
When the reporter searched the website, he found many methods of treating diseases with hair dryers, many of which described in detail how to treat colds and joint pain with hair dryers. Among them, blowing “Dazhui point” (located under the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra of the human body) and temple mainly can promote the discharge of a large amount of sweat, so as to reduce fever. Blowing 2-3 times a day is enough until the body temperature returns to normal.
expert explanation
hot wind can treat cold diseases
-It conforms to the treatment principle of “cold is hot”, but it can not replace conventional treatment
Then, can the hair dryer really have such a great “effect”? Wang Dongxu, deputy director of the Department of geriatrics of Nanjing Integrated Chinese and Western medicine hospital, said that the reason why many readers feel that hair dryers have “therapeutic effects” is that their diseases are basically characterized by “cold”.
Let’s take the simplest example. If we have diarrhea caused by a cold, what we like most is to warm our stomach with a hot water bag, which will make us feel much more comfortable. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there is the treatment principle of “cold is hot”, which simply means that cold diseases are treated with warm methods. Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that “cold dominates the collection and introduction”, which will make the blood flow in the meridians of a person’s body not smooth, and eventually lead to the phenomenon of “blockage leads to pain”. Therefore, diseases such as wind cold cold, cold cough, arthritis (caused by wind cold factors) in the early stage can play the role of eliminating swelling, removing blood stasis, expelling cold and relieving pain, similar to the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.
Li Jing, vice chairman of the health preservation and rehabilitation professional committee of Nanjing Natural Medicine Association and associate professor of Nanjing Institute of physical education, pointed out that Japan once had “hair dryer therapy”, which used the warm air blown by the hair dryer to stimulate the relevant acupoints of the human body, so as to obtain a warming effect. But this method can not replace the conventional treatment.
But for patients with tinea pedis, hair dryers are a good helper. The shoes of people who are prone to sweating are always wet, which not only affects the comfort of wearing, but also causes mold infection in serious cases. Before putting on shoes, you may as well blow an electric hair dryer into the shoes for a moment. In this way, the hot air will not only make the shoes dry and comfortable, but also kill mold and avoid athlete’s foot.
can’t treat viscera internal bleeding
– “hyperthermia” sometimes aggravates subcutaneous bleeding and damages the body by blowing too often
Professor Guo Haiying from the health preservation and rehabilitation teaching and Research Office of Nanjing University of traditional Chinese medicine said that the “hair dryer therapy” circulated online has an auxiliary treatment effect on patients with “cold” symptoms, which is similar to the “hyperthermia” in rehabilitation medicine, but it is not applicable or even forbidden for some diseases. For example, in case of internal organ bleeding, hyperthermia can dilate local blood vessels, increase blood flow and vascular permeability of organs, and aggravate bleeding tendency. For example, in the early stage (48 hours) of soft tissue injury, such as contusion, sprain or crush injury, hyperthermia is prohibited. Because hyperthermia can promote local blood circulation, thereby aggravating subcutaneous bleeding, swelling and pain. Do not blindly use “hair dryer therapy” to alleviate symptoms, but go to the hospital for regular treatment in time, so as not to delay the best diagnosis and treatment time, which is harmful to recovery.
Associate Professor Li Jing reminded that if you use the hair dryer too frequently, you will also be injured. Hair dryers can be used as health care appliances, but it is better to use them safely under the guidance of doctors. When using, pay attention to the wind force and the number of times of use, so as to avoid overheating and burning the skin, and avoid injury to the body due to excessive use.
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