How do you treat low back pain? Low back pain is a common condition in life, which brings a great threat to our life. Many friends will put on a piece of pain relief cream when they have low back pain, although sometimes it has the effect of relieving pain, but it does not fundamentally cure low back pain, and sometimes it brings unexpected “hidden problems”. This is a patient I recently received, back pain for many days, all kinds of local remedies have been tried ineffective, finally found the courage to come into the hospital and find me. The moment I uncovered the clothes I was a bit surprised, I even suspected that the patient was suffering from dermatological pain, not “back pain” as he said! After learning that the cause of his third-degree burns was actually himself! He was “burned” by the plaster when he stuck it on randomly to relieve the pain. After examination he belonged to the lumbar disc herniation, need to be systematized treatment to resolve the pain, rather than plasters can solve the problem. In fact, the Chinese surgical plaster is a large compound composed of multiple drugs using the principle of Chinese medicine to return to the meridian. The plaster applied to the body surface can stimulate nerve endings, through reflexes, dilate blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve the nutrition of surrounding tissues, to achieve the purpose of swelling, anti-inflammatory and analgesic. However, for some uncomplicated back pain, there is actually not much relief and treatment effect. Indiscriminate application of plasters may also lead to allergies or other side effects. At present, there are many varieties of plasters on the market, and the common rubber plasters are mainly divided into wound and dampness pain relief plasters, anti-inflammatory and analgesic plasters, blood circulation and siltation plasters. The five types of creams are: ointment for relieving pain, anti-inflammatory and analgesic ointment, ointment for activating blood circulation, and ointment for dispersing cold. Each kind of ointment has its unique use, not “universal”, must be symptomatic paste. If a local skin rash, blisters and intense itching appear after applying the ointment, it means that the ointment is allergic and should be stopped immediately. In addition, all creams containing musk, frankincense, saffron, myrrh, peach kernel and other blood-activating ingredients should be disabled for pregnant women; women should also suspend the use during menstruation (especially the lumbosacral vertebrae stop plastering for 3-5 days); pre-traumatic fracture, serious skin diseases, etc. should not be plastered to avoid physical discomfort. To completely cure lumbago, we need to find the root cause of lumbago, symptomatic treatment so as to cure lumbago, do not indiscriminately paste creams, so as not to appear the embarrassment of burns, this is not only lumbago, but also “extra-skin burns” need to be treated, so that patients add insult to injury.