This year’s winter solstice, December 22, is the first day of the lunar calendar “Sanjiu”, which is also the day when the “Sanjiu compress” begins. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners apply acupressure on this special day for people suffering from chronic respiratory diseases and those who are weak and susceptible to prevent and cure diseases. Why is it necessary to treat winter diseases in winter? In summer, “three volt paste” belongs to “winter diseases in summer”, while in winter, “three nine paste” belongs to “winter diseases in winter”. The “winter disease” simply means “winter disease”. “Winter diseases” simply means diseases that tend to attack in winter or diseases that are aggravated or recurring in the cold, mainly various respiratory diseases such as recurrent upper respiratory tract infections, chronic bronchitis, allergic rhinitis, asthma, and rheumatic immune diseases such as arthritis. In Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, the clinic is always full of children with cough, runny nose, phlegm, wheezing, etc., and a large number of them have recurrent illnesses that do not heal, which are sometimes good and sometimes bad, and are quite annoying to parents. This is mostly due to the dry climate and frequent cold air in winter, the children’s organism is still in the process of development, the immune function is not perfect, the organism’s poor control of temperature and humidity changes, coupled with the children’s hyperactivity, often sweating, and lack of self-protection, they become susceptible to respiratory diseases. In addition, children with frequent infusions, antibiotics and hormones, as well as children with various allergic diseases often have “relapses” during this time. “The Chinese medicine has the ancient saying “Spring and summer nourish Yang, autumn and winter nourish Yin”. The winter solstice is the time when the body’s yang energy is the weakest. At this time, the use of warming yang and opening the channels, phlegm and opening the orifices of Chinese medicine for acupuncture point compresses can achieve the role of invigorating yang energy, unblocking the meridians, adjusting the function of the internal organs and driving out the evil. It can also enhance the patient’s ability to resist cold evil, and is an effective consolidation of the “three volts” treatment effect. The alternate application of “Sanjiu” and “Sanfu” can complement each other and achieve the effect of strengthening resistance, preventing and curing diseases. How to carry out the three nines of compressing The three nines of compressing is a kind of acupuncture point compressing therapy, that is, on the first day of each “nine days” after the winter solstice, the prepared Chinese medicine is ground into powder and made into a plaster, which is applied to different acupuncture points on the human body to treat diseases, which belongs to the “internal disease external treatment”. Shenzhen Children’s Hospital TCM Department starts: the first nine days (December 22-24, choose any day, the same below); the second nine days (December 31-January 2); the third nine days (January 9-11); the fourth nine days (January 18-20). A total of 4 times. Indications: Asthma, allergic cough, allergic rhinitis, chronic bronchitis, recurrent upper respiratory tract infections, recurrent pneumonia, weakness and cold, and those with cold constitution. Appointments are now being accepted. Due to the high number of attendances each year, the hospital hopes that parents will make appointments and complete the procedures in advance to avoid inconvenience caused by long waiting time in line on the day of the patching. Contraindications: Pregnant women; people with serious heart and lung diseases; people with skin allergy to adhesive tape; people with skin diseases and broken skin; patients with acute asthma, severe cough, fever; patients under 2 years old.