Salt hot compress can also be regarded as a health care treatment method in traditional Chinese medicine, just like cupping and scraping. Doing it when you are not sick can play a role in fitness. Salt hot compress can relieve muscle spasm and reduce pain.

Salt has a long history in traditional Chinese medicine. It is believed that its nature and taste are salty and cold, and it has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, cooling blood, moistening dryness, nourishing yin, laxative, and antiemetic. Traditional Chinese medicine processed with salt is mostly used to nourish the kidneys, stabilize essence, diuresis and purge fire. It can be introduced into the kidneys to treat lower body diseases. Common salt medicinal materials include Phellodendri, Anemarrhena, psoralen, orange core, etc.

Drinking light salt water can replenish body fluids. People who work in high temperatures in summer can drink salty soda to cool down and quench their thirst. People with constipation should drink a cup of light salt water on an empty stomach after getting up in the morning, which can promote digestion, remove bad breath, clear intestinal heat, and relieve constipation. Soaking your feet in warm salt water after exercise can relieve muscle soreness. Adding a few handfuls of salt to the bathtub during bathing can relieve fatigue and relieve itching.

In the treatment of some inflammations, salt can be used as an auxiliary medicine. After being bitten by poisonous insects such as bees, scorpions, centipedes, etc., immediately wash the affected area with concentrated salt water to relieve pain, reduce swelling and remove poison. Patients with trachoma and conjunctivitis should wash their eyes with light salt water every morning, which has anti-inflammatory and eyesight-improving effects. The climate is dry in autumn and winter, and acute and chronic pharyngitis and tonsillitis are common. When you feel slight discomfort in your throat, you can gargle with light salt water in the morning; when your throat is swollen and painful, gargle with thick salt soup five or six times a day, which can have an anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effect.

For stomach pain caused by liver qi stagnation, salt and fennel hot compress can be used. Take 31 grams of anise and 16 grams of cumin, mash them and add 1 bowl of coarse salt (about 450 grams), stir-fry them together and put them into a cloth bag. Wrap them in a towel and iron your stomach and back while they are hot. The spasm is relaxed and comfortable, which has the effect of smoothing stomach qi and relieving stomach problems. For abdominal pain, acute bladder paralysis, and urinary obstruction caused by cold, use 250 grams of granular table salt, stir-fry it, put it into a cloth bag, and apply hot compress to the abdominal pain area and lower abdomen, which can dispel cold, relieve pain, and facilitate urination.