1. The benefits of soaking feet
1, promoting blood circulation
According to the theory of keeping in good health, the foot is farthest from the human heart and bears the heaviest burden. It has been said since ancient times that the second heart of the human body is also the most likely to lead to poor blood circulation. According to medical classics, people with feet are like trees with roots. When a tree dies, the roots are exhausted first, and people are old and old. For people with cold hands and feet, soaking feet is a good way to promote blood circulation.
2. Stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot.
There are six main meridians on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet can stimulate these six meridians and promote blood circulation.
3. Adjuvant treatment of diseases
There is a folk saying that "the rich take tonic and the poor soak their feet", which shows the great role of soaking their feet. Modern people yearn for air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold food, so some people will feel cold and wet in their bodies. Soaking their feet can accelerate the discharge of cold in their bodies.
4. Improve sleep and eliminate insomnia.
Insisting on soaking feet also has a good effect on improving sleep. Soaking feet in water at 43 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes can reduce lactic acid in the blood. Moreover, the foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries. Soaking the foot with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This warm stimulation is reflected in the cerebral cortex, which can inhibit the cerebral cortex, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia.
Step 2 soak your feet taboo
Soaking feet is beneficial, but the premise of soaking feet is to soak feet correctly, including water temperature, duration and so on. Besides, soaking feet is not always excused, so it is not suitable for some special people and some special situations.
1, you should not soak your feet when you are full and hungry.
When soaking feet, don't be too full, too hungry or eat, because foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, which is prone to dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, otherwise it will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
2, patients with severe heart disease, hypotension beware of syncope.
It is okay for healthy people to soak their feet or soak in hot springs, but special people, such as people with heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, low blood pressure and frequent dizziness, should not soak their feet or soak in hot springs for a long time. Because soaking feet in hot water or soaking in hot springs will dilate blood vessels, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will inevitably lead to ischemia and hypoxia in important organs such as the heart and brain. For people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase the risk of illness.
3, diabetic patients must pay attention to the water temperature.
The peripheral nerves of diabetic patients can't sense the outside temperature normally, even if the water temperature is high, and they are easy to burn, which will lead to very serious consequences, so pay attention to the water temperature of soaking feet.
4, beriberi patients should be careful of infection.
People with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water when their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn are not suitable for soaking feet.
5. Old people should not soak their feet for too long.
Old people who soak their feet for too long will have symptoms such as sweating and palpitation. Therefore, it is better for the elderly to soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day.
What should I use to soak my feet?
1. Folium Artemisiae Argyi: Treating various diseases.
Artemisia argyi foot bath: dried Artemisia argyi 50- 100g. Boiling Folium Artemisiae Argyi with water, cooling, adding cold water or soaking feet; Or soak Folium Artemisiae Argyi in hot water for 30 minutes, and then heat to soak feet. Wormwood and ginger can cure common cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid disease, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma; Wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis; 20 capsules of Artemisia argyi pepper are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
2. Ginger: used for cold hands and feet.
Ginger foot bath: ginger 1 tablet, safflower 1g, salt. Flatten ginger or slice it with a knife, wrap safflower in gauze and boil it in water, then add a spoonful of salt to soak your feet.
3. safflower: promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and treating low back pain
Safflower foot bath: safflower 1g, a little salt. Boil safflower in water, add a spoonful of salt, smoke the feet first and then soak them.
4. Codonopsis pilosula: Tonifying qi deficiency
Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus and Atractylodes macrocephala: Codonopsis pilosula 15g, Astragalus membranaceus 20g and Atractylodes macrocephala 15g. Boil the three herbs in water and pour them into the foot bath once a day for 30 minutes each time.
5. almond tea soaks feet
Take 45g bitter almond and green tea 10g. Put the medicines together in a pot, add 2000 ml of water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove residues and get juice. Apply 1 vial to face and arms, pour the rest into a basin, and soak for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 20 days is 1 course of treatment. It can moisten skin, diminish inflammation and sterilize, supplement vitamins and minerals, and prevent and treat skin chlorosis, blackness and roughness, acne and scabies.
6. Traditional Chinese medicine soaking feet
For women with dysmenorrhea, we can try to stick to traditional Chinese medicine to soak feet to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea. Most of the drugs used for foot bath are drugs that enter the liver meridian of foot Jueyin, and appropriate amount of menstrual medicine vinegar is added, such as 30g of Green Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, 30g of Linderae Radix, 30g of Motherwort, Chuanxiong 10g, and Carthamus tinctorius 10g. Add about two liters of water and about 50 ml of vinegar, boil it with strong fire, and fry it with low fire for 30 minutes. When the medicine is cooled to 50℃, pour the residue into a basin to soak feet. The amount of medicine in the basin should be immersed in the ankle joint. If the liquid medicine is insufficient, add appropriate amount of warm water. The feet keep moving in the medicine, so that the soles of the feet receive slight physical stimulation from the dregs for more than 30 minutes at a time.