Fumigation is one of the traditional therapies. It is effective in treating diseases with steam or smoke generated when boiling or burning medicinal herbs.

The fumigation therapy is made up of three treatment methods -- directly steaming the body, washing or fomenting focus with decoction after steaming and fumigating part of the body.

The therapy can be applied with acupuncture and moxibustion. It is characterized by fast and clear effectiveness in treatment, no side effect, easy application, etc.

Particularly, it has been proved that the therapy is very efficacious for synovitis.

A research group of the hospital has deepened the study of fumigation, thus developing various kinds of instruments for the therapy.

The fumigation therapy is applied to many kinds of diseases like hypertension, neurological disorder, paralyses, insomnia, gynaecopathy and skin diseases.

The therapy has been introduced in many hospitals in the province to prove effective in treatment of diseases.