Six Tips for Taking Chinese Herb Bath

As we know, taking Chinese Herb Bath to treat Chronic Kidney Disease is available and effective, but we should know some details about the process if we want to take the bath.
I. Firstly, the medicines used in the Chinese Herb Bath must follow the doctors’ direction. Do not choose the medicines by yourself.
II. Secondly, patients should take a shower before the herb bath so that the medicine pool can keep clean. Another shower is necessary after the bath and put on clothes in time to prevent having a cold.
III. Thirdly, at the beginning of the bath, the water level should be lower than the heart, three or five minutes later, as the body accepts the temperature gradually, the water level can be same with the shoulder.
Control the time of bath, because during the bath, amount of the body fluid may lose via sweat, and the expanding of skin blood vessels increase the quantity of blood in the surface of body, leading to the ischemia in the brain, then people are easy to be vertiginous or even faint in such a situation. Once people are faint, they should be out of the pool and lie on the bed, try to have some water or syrup to supplement the body fluid and energy, or use cold water to wash their feet so that the limb blood vessels can draw back and assure the blood in brain part.
IV. Fourthly, some patients should control the water temperature under 39℃ and make the temperature fit the body, for example, patients with severe heart failure, renal insufficiency, myocardial infarction, coronary disease, and high blood pressure; and the patients who are in elder age, or children. And the whole bath should finish in a short period of time.
Women who are in their pregnancy or menses are not suggested to take a Chinese herb bath.
V. Fifthly, prepare some water or syrup around you when taking the bath and you can have some if you are not feeling well. If you have a serious feeling of uncomfortable, stop the bath immediately.
VI. Sixthly, Chinese herb bath should be taken half an hour before the meal or after it, as there is a high risk to be collapse if they are in an empty stomach, and vomiting in a full one. In addition, a general herb bath before sleeping may make people feel exciting and can not fall asleep quickly.

If you want to take a Chinese Herb Bath, please follow these steps seriously, for if not, there may be something we can not control which is we would not like to see. Chronic Kidney Disease is a kind of chronic disease, so we should be patient when dealing with it. Best wishes to you.