There are many ways to get rid of dampness in Chinese medicine, such as moxibustion, cupping, and taking herbal remedies.
1. Moxibustion: through the ignition of moxa cones or moxa sticks smoked or warm burned body surface points, to give the body with warm and hot stimulation. It can warm the meridians, activate blood circulation, and dispel cold and dampness.
2. Cupping: Through burning, suction, steam and other methods to form a negative pressure inside the can, so that the can is adsorbed on the surface of the body acupuncture points or the affected area, so that the local skin congestion, blood stasis and benign stimulation. It has the functions of dispelling wind and dampness, warming menstruation and dispersing cold, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, subduing swelling and relieving pain, and warming yang and benefiting qi.
3. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) prescription: You can take dampness-expelling agents, such as Chai Ping Tang, Scutellaria Slippery Stone Tang, Xuan Piao Tang, etc..
Chai Ping Tang has the efficacy of relieving Shao Yang (treating external heat disease between half-expression and half-li), dispelling dampness and stomach, and treating damp malaria; Scutellaria and Slippery Stone Tang has the efficacy of clearing away heat and inducing dampness, and treating damp-heat embodied in the middle jiao (dampness and heat evils accumulate with each other in the body), while Xuan Paralysis Tang has the efficacy of clearing away heat and dispelling dampness, and clearing up the collaterals to alleviate pain, and treating wind-damp-heat paralysis.
Specific treatment and medication should follow the doctor’s instructions, it is recommended that daily attention to maintain good habits, adjust the daily diet, maintain a certain amount of exercise.