Usually rubbing ginger on sciatica every day does not help. This disease can be treated by medication and physical therapy. Ginger is pungent in flavor and slightly warm in nature, which can release and disperse cold, but it is used clinically to treat wind-cold cold, stomach-cold vomiting, lung-cold cough and other diseases, so it is useless to rub ginger on sciatica every day. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the basic mechanism of sciatica is meridian blockage, qi and blood stagnation, the patient can follow the doctor’s instructions to use astragalus gui zhi wu wu tang, shuji jian lumbar pill and other medicines. Secondly, the patient should also cooperate with the doctor to carry out acupuncture, commonly used acupuncture points are foot sun, foot Shaoyang, etc., if the cold and dampness evidence, need to be matched with the fate of the door, lumbar Yangguan points; if the evidence of insufficient qi and blood with the foot Sanli, three yinjiao. In addition, you can also take piercing cupping method of treatment, to a certain extent, can relieve discomfort. To summarize, sciatica patients need to go to the hospital in time, with the doctor to carry out a series of standardized treatment, so as not to delay the condition.