This fomentation is a method of preventing and treating diseases by repeatedly fomenting human skin and mucosa with traditional medicament.

The method, which produces fewer side effects, is effective for prophylactic treatment of skin disease and nervous and surgical diseases by applying such remedies as rubbing, sticking, dipping and washing.

According to Tonguibogam, one of three encyclopedias of traditional medicine of Koryo, the medicinal fomentation is a time-honored folk remedy.