Preliminary Investigation on Zhuang Folk Medicated Bath Prescriptions: A Case Study of Hechi Region

Through medicated bath conditioning, the human body is in harmony with the outside world in a synchronized state of heaven, earth and man, thereby achieving the effects of ensuring good health, curing diseases and prolonging life. Modern medicine found that medicated bath can make the active ingredients of drugs to stimulate the skin or penetrate into the body, so as to improve blood circulation, accelerate the body's metabolism, and eliminate or reduce local lesions; meantime, it also increases the amount of immunoglobulin in the blood, and further improves the elasticity and vitality of the skin[2]. Fibraurea recisa, Phryma leptostachya, Uncaria rhynchiophylla, Caulis spatholobi, Bletilla striata, Lycopodium clavatum, Caesalpinia sappan , Paeonia veitchii, Taraxacum monogolicum, Boswellia carerii, Artemisia anomala, Pseudocydonia sinensis , Carthamus tinctorius, A. argyi and cassia twigs are boiled with mountain spring water and used for fumigation and then bath. 2.5.6 Medicated bath prescription for athlete's foot. (i) Sopilora flavescens, fresh Capsicum annuum, fresh Portulaca oleracea and Melia azedarach leaves are boiled with mountain spring water and used to fumigate the affected area. (ii) Fresh products of Brasssa juncea leaves are scalded with water for about 3 min, and B. juncea leaves are used to rub the affected area. 2.5.7 Medicated bath prescription for osteoproliferation. The use of light therapy easily lead to infant dehydration, severe dry skin and sunburn; if light therapy is lasted for more than 24 h, it can cause a decrease in riboflavin, and then reduce the reductase activity of glutathione in red blood cells and aggravate hemolysis; light therapy is costly and the therapeutic effect is not significant.