What role do safflower and pepper have in soaking feet?

Soaking feet with Chili peppers has many benefits. As the saying goes, the foot is the second heart of the human body. Soaking feet in hot water is better than taking tonic. If pepper is blindly added to the water for soaking feet, the effect will be even more wonderful. Chinese medicine believes that soaking feet with Chili water can promote sleep more than soaking feet with hot water. In fact, the method is very simple. Wrap 50 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum (1 kg 10) in cotton cloth, tie it with a rope, boil water, and soak your feet with this water. Pepper bags can be reused, and they can be replaced in about a week. Pepper is a good thing. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is not only the most commonly used seasoning in the kitchen, but also a traditional Chinese medicine, which can warm the middle warmer and relieve pain, dispel dampness and dispel cold. Soaking feet with Chili water and soaking feet with angelica and safflower have the same effect, both of which can promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, so that the whole body blood vessels are smooth and warm. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a natural disinfectant, and soaking feet with Zanthoxylum bungeanum water can also help treat beriberi. The benefits of soaking feet every day are not limited to these ... children love coughing and middle-aged and elderly people have high blood pressure. Insisting on soaking feet has certain benefits. Chinese medicine says "top-down treatment". Soaking feet can promote the blood circulation of the body and enhance the barrier function of the respiratory system, thus helping to relieve cough symptoms and reduce the occurrence of colds. When you soak your feet, you can let the blood go from top to bottom, so your blood pressure is easy to stabilize. In addition, it has the functions of sterilization, disinfection, pain relief, itching relief and swelling reduction. Soaking feet with Zanthoxylum bungeanum decoction can play the role of external treatment of internal diseases, because there are reflex zones corresponding to various organs of the human body in the feet. Soaking or massaging these reflex zones with medicinal soup can dredge the meridians of the whole body, unblock blood vessels, adjust the functions of various parts of the human body, and achieve the self-care effect of preventing and treating diseases. There are records of "toe-looking method" and "foot-heart method" in ancient medical books in China. In Huangdi Neijing, an ancient classic of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many acupoints on the foot, such as Taichong, Taibai, Yongquan, Kunlun, Yinqiao and Neiting. And explain that these acupoints can reach the liver meridian, spleen meridian, stomach meridian, bladder meridian and gallbladder meridian respectively. This shows that our ancestors have recognized the relationship between many sensitive reaction points of feet (called "acupoints" in ancient times) and human internal organs, and pointed out that drugs acting on these reaction points can achieve the effect of treating diseases and protecting health. You might as well try!