Tendon lotion is used for chronic injuries to tendons and ligaments. Also, this can stain your clothing, so be careful! Notes: You can apply this as many times a day as needed. Try to break up the knots by following the muscle fibers and also rub into the muscle attachments. For muscle pulls: massage into the knots of the muscle.Start lightly and gradually work the liniment in deeper as the pain subsides. For bruises, sprains and strains: apply a small amount to your palm and rub gently on the affected area (you can apply with a cotton ball instead, but I like the hand better because it helps to penetrate).It is so helpful in treating a variety of injuries and it has a balance of warming and cooling herbs that help reduce inflammation and swelling as effectively as ice, while the warming herbs kill pain, promote circulation, and break up accumulations of blood and fluids. Trauma liniment was developed to disperse these accumulations and treat sports injuries, thereby prolonging an athlete’s career and health. Bruises are usually shrugged off by most athletes as minor injuries that will heal themselves, but over the centuries kung fu practitioners noticed the large bruises or repeated bruising in one area sometimes created accumulations of stagnant qi and blood that could cause serious health problems years later.
Every kung fu school uses a form of trauma liniment to deal with the injuries incurred in daily training. Trauma liniment (die da jiu), whose name in Chinese literally means “hit-fall-wine”, is the number one remedy for bruises, contusions, sprains and fractures. (adapted from Tooth from the Tiger’s Mouth by Tom Bisio) The alcohol absorbs quickly and effectively into your skin, and the rubbing action helps with circulation. These are great compared to salves & creams which you just rub on, are sticky/messy or don’t absorb well. Liniments are herbal tinctures that you can use topically, so the herbs are steeped in alcohol for approximately 6 months to several years (I only do this for these liniments, most other tinctures I only steep 4-6 weeks) and then you apply the liniment to the affected area. I make two main liniments in house: Trauma liniment and Tendon lotion.
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