Congjiang is an ethnic minority county in Guizhou Province. It has dense virgin forests, mist-shrouded mountains and deep valleys. Banyao, a branch of the Yao ethnic group, lives here.

The "Congjiang County Chronicle" of the Republic of China records: "Banyao is very clean. He must have a bathtub at home, and he must take a medicinal bath when returning home from work.

Because he is a well-educated person, he is also good at cleaning. It is clean, so many people live longer." There are many other branches of the Yao people around Banyao in Congjiang County - Gou Yao, Baiku Yao, Hong Yao, etc., but only Banyao has the custom of medicinal bathing.

Yao medicine has many prescriptions that have not been passed down to the outside world, and Yao bathing is the most commonly used and important way to maintain health, treat and prevent diseases.

Yao bathing is a unique bathing culture and ancient health care method of Banyao people.

They use a variety of Chinese herbal medicines such as maple, bloodvine, phoenix, and polygonum multiflorum grown in the Moon Mountain area of ??Jiuwanda Mountain to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis according to ancestral prescriptions. , regulate qi, regulate menstruation, sterilize and reduce inflammation and other effects of bath soup, bathe regularly to prevent and cure diseases.

Congjiang Yao bath medicine is composed of more than 20 kinds of herbal medicines. It mainly has the functions of dispelling diseases and strengthening the body, driving away rheumatism, detoxifying the body, beautifying and moisturizing, relieving fatigue and refreshing the mind.

In the local Yao Village, there are no gynecological diseases, the prevalence of children is low, and many people live long lives. This is inseparable from frequent medicinal baths.

The main pharmacological effects of medicated bath health care are: the human body is soaked in the medicinal soup, and the medicinal juice spreads throughout the body through the human capillaries and meridians to achieve health care and prevent and treat diseases.

The Yao people’s medicated bath is a thousand-year-old recipe that the Banyao people have lived with the mountains, grass, vines and trees for thousands of years and have been practiced and applied countless times.

Regular medicated bathing can prevent and treat diseases, especially colds, rheumatism, gynecological and dermatological diseases. People who are not sick can also eliminate fatigue, prolong life, moisturize the skin, promote sleep, regulate endocrine, and improve immunity from fatigue. Strength, enhance human body function.

Medicinal baths have even more magical effects on women and children.

In Yaozhai, babies take medicated baths as soon as they land to help improve their immunity and prevent and treat common childhood diseases such as colds, itchy skin, and convulsions; mothers take medicated baths a few hours after delivery to prevent Prevent the invasion of various viruses, quickly restore women's physiological functions, and they can go to work in the fields after three days.

The women here have almost no gynecological diseases, and their skin color is rosy and delicate.

The Qiangui Yao people’s inhabited area has beautiful mountains and clear waters, dense forests, and a special geographical environment, which makes the local area rich in biodiversity and authentic Chinese medicinal materials.

Dozens of Chinese herbal medicines are collected to prepare bathing prescriptions, which can not only keep fit and cleanse the body, but also prevent and cure diseases, forming the unique local bathing culture of the Yao people.

Guizhou is a mountainous province with a well-maintained original ecological environment. The average forest coverage rate in Congjiang County is about 50%, and the forest coverage rate in the Yao ethnic settlements is as high as more than 90%.

The dense virgin forest is the source of life for the Banyao people, with inexhaustible wild herbs.

Congjiang Yao bath medicine mainly comes from the Moon Mountain Mountain area.

Moon Mountain is located in Congjiang, Rongjiang and Leishan. It is still the best-preserved and largest mountainous area of ??virgin forest in the country.

There is a saying here that "two mountains can have a dialogue, and it takes half a day to meet each other. One mountain has four seasons, and the weather is different ten miles away."

The unique climate and dense river network create unique natural conditions for the growth of various organisms and the reproduction of various vegetation. "There is no idle grass in Guizhou, and there are elixirs everywhere" making Guizhou the capital of Chinese herbal medicine. .

The local Yao people take medicated baths throughout the year on the first and sixth days of the lunar calendar (i.e. the first, sixth, eleventh, sixteenth, twenty-first and twenty-sixth day of the lunar month).

The Yao people have continued this Chinese herbal bathing method for generations to strengthen their health and prevent and treat diseases.

Local residents suffer from arthritis, skin diseases are rare, gynecological inflammation is also hard to find, and many live long lives.

Historically, because the Yao people mostly lived in deep mountains and dense forests, they lacked medical treatment.

In order to survive and resist the invasion of viruses, they used natural wild Chinese herbal medicines for treatment and health care, thus creating a unique national culture of medicine, hygiene and health care, of which medicinal baths are the most important Healthcare modalities.

It can be said that Congjiang created Yao bath, and Yao medicine is inseparable from Congjiang.

According to preliminary statistics, there are 188 kinds of Yao medicines, which mainly treat 47 types of diseases.

Congjiang has become the origin of Yao bath medicine.

The traditional bathing culture of the Yao people in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, "Congjiang Yao Bath", recently officially submitted a certification trademark application to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. It has become the first traditional medicine in Guizhou Province to implement geographical indication protection. Knowledge.