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  Patients with chronic respiratory diseases are characterized by high morbidity and mortality, and their quality of life is seriously affected as symptoms recur and their disease progresses. It is an important challenge for respiratory physicians to reduce the recurrence of these diseases and to reduce the trend of declining lung function year by year. In recent years, with the widespread dissemination of the concept of “winter and summer treatment”, it has been accepted by more and more patients because of its advantages of less side effects, low cost, easy operation, safe and effective, and suitable for both young and old. Many patients with respiratory diseases choose to undergo compress treatment at the beginning of each year’s volcano, and their conditions have improved to varying degrees as a result. However, most people are still unfamiliar with the “Sanjiu paste”. In fact, the “three ambers” and the “three nine patches” are collectively known as the “ambrosia patch therapy” in Chinese medicine. The “Fuxiu patching therapy” refers to a Chinese medicine external treatment method that uses special Chinese medicine creams applied to specific points on the body in the three volt days and three ninth days, which includes “winter disease summer treatment” and “winter disease winter prevention “It includes two periods of treatment. Generally, 3 years is a treatment cycle.  It is a kind of “internal and external treatment” based on the theory of “Heaven and Man correspond to each other” and “Spring and Summer nourish Yang, Autumn and Winter nourish Yin”, which is in accordance with the climatic characteristics of the four seasons. It is a traditional treatment of “internal disease and external treatment”. In Chinese medicine, chronic cough, asthma, recurrent respiratory infections and other winter diseases are called “winter diseases”. Most of them are characterized by deficiency of Yang energy, loss of harmony between Qi and Blood, and imbalance of Yin and Yang. Therefore, it is necessary to harmonize qi and blood and balance yin and yang to prevent and treat “winter diseases”. “The three volt days are the hottest time of the year, and people’s yang energy is in full swing. This is the easiest time to stimulate the acupuncture points and stimulate the meridian qi, so that the drugs can be absorbed through the skin and promote the smooth flow of meridians and the harmonization of qi and blood. “The third nine days are the lowest temperature of the year, and there is a saying in Chinese medicine that the winter solstice is the first sunrise. The word “yi” means the beginning. The root cause of coughs, asthma, recurrent respiratory infections and other diseases is the internal growth of phlegm in the body due to the lack of yang qi. At this time, the use of drugs such as warming Yang and opening the channels, resolving phlegm and opening the orifices, through the application of acupuncture points, can achieve the effect of invigorating Yang Qi, unblocking the meridians, adjusting the function of the internal organs and expelling evil. At this time, the application can enhance the patient’s ability to resist the cold, but also to “three volt paste” effective consolidation of the therapeutic effect, to play the Yin and Yang and regulate, summer nourishment three volt, winter tonic three nine purposes.  The main indications for the “Sanjiu patching therapy” are cold respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic rhinitis, pharyngitis, recurrent colds, and so on. These patients have different degrees of fear of cold, wind, like warmth, cough and sputum thin white, the condition of winter heavy summer light. The time of the year is appropriate after the winter solstice. The specific method of compressing should be different according to the different diseases. But 6-8 hours per day is appropriate. The site of the compress is generally based on the meridian points, and the commonly used clinical points are Lung Yu, Ding Qi, Ankylosis, Dazhi, Tan Zhong, etc.. The points can be taken according to the patient’s condition.  There are many benefits to “Sanjiu Compress Therapy”, but some patients are not suitable. Pneumonia patients and patients with acute fever of various infectious diseases; patients with extreme sensitivity to patching drugs, special constitution and contact dermatitis and other skin diseases; patients with local skin damage at the patching points and women during pregnancy are not very suitable for Vujiu patching. The duration of patching depends on the patient’s tolerance level, generally 6 – 8 hours. For children, it is 4–6 hours. Children over the age of one year old can be compressed.  As a medicine, whether it is Chinese medicine, Western medicine, there are more or less precautions, including some adverse reactions. First, the acupressure time, do not eat cold food, such as cold drinks, some spicy food. Second, the drug is stimulating the skin, by stimulating the body’s acupuncture points, to regulate yin and yang, so the skin feels warm, hot, there is some slight tingling, but this is a normal phenomenon, this is the phenomenon of drug action, so do not worry. But for some rare patients, causing severe pain, itching, this time can be removed from the drug. Thirdly, in the past, like the ancients, when using compress treatment, the more foaming the better the curative effect, but now people have changed their views on this, that is, they ask the doctor not to foaming, the curative effect should also be better than the ancient curative effect. If you encounter a patient with foaming, one, do not use soapy water or wash with cool water, foaming more should go to the hospital for treatment, through treatment, these patients quickly have healing. But for some patients whose skin is prone to infection or extremely allergic, you should be careful with the patching treatment.