While today, customers can choose from a dizzying array of medicinal patches that fill the marketplace, back then there was only one such patch in the medicine pouch, the much-vaunted diaogao patch that was said to cure all aches, pains, and promote the removal of pus and regeneration of skin.
現在市面上琳瑯滿目的各式酸痛貼布，讓人眼花撩亂，但是在「寄藥包」的年代，是「一膏通包」；不論是筋骨酸痛、長「癰疽」（癩痢仔），只要貼上「吊膏」就酸痛全無、拔膿生肌。