It is generally recommended to take a bath after 4~6 hours after acupuncture, and the characteristic situation needs to take a bath after 24 hours. Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine external therapy, with treatment and prevention of disease, health care efficacy, can dredge the meridians, regulating qi and blood yin and yang, warm meridian dispersal of cold (warm the human body meridians, get rid of the body of cold). Therefore, it is necessary to take a bath only after the healing of the skin needle holes, and it is generally recommended to take a bath after 4~6 hours, to avoid causing infection of the patient’s skin, as well as cold, affecting the effect of acupuncture treatment to dredge the meridians and prevent the cold from taking advantage of the invasion of the body, aggravating the condition. In the process of acupuncture, if it is due to the patient’s condition needs, but also with gua sha, cupping, moxibustion, physical therapy, buried wire and other methods; or in the acupuncture accidentally punctured capillaries, should be after 24 hours to take a bath. Please consult your acupuncturist for details.