There are many meridians on our feet, especially the soles of our feet, which are closely related to our body organs. Therefore, doing a good job in foot health care is also very beneficial to health. Let me introduce it to you, I hope it will be useful to you!

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It is enough for people to wash once a night. We should get into the habit of washing our feet with warm water at 40℃ before going to bed every night, which can not only clean our feet, but also promote blood circulation and keep our feet warm. As the saying goes: "Wash your feet in spring, the sun rises and takes off;" Washing feet in summer can dispel summer heat and dampness; Wash feet in autumn, moisten lungs and intestines; Washing your feet in winter makes your abdomen warm. "In autumn and winter, the author used to wash his feet with water such as ephedra, cassia twig and pepper. It is observed that foot bath can alleviate and eliminate pathological abnormalities of local capillaries, improve blood circulation, eliminate inflammation, swelling and allergy of respiratory system, and make respiratory tract unobstructed, thus preventing colds, coughs and chilblains. After soaking feet, the elderly sleep stably, their appetite increases, and symptoms such as dizziness and numbness are also alleviated. Therefore, in order to prevent diseases, health and longevity, you may wish to soak your feet with warm water every night.

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Life lies in exercise, and exercise depends on the feet. The foot is also called the "second heart". If you walk often, the muscles and blood vessels in your feet will contract regularly, which will accelerate the venous return, which is conducive to the exchange of blood oxygen between tissues and organs, so that the human body can function normally, thus achieving the purpose of prolonging life and strengthening the body.

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If you feel a nodule or lump on your foot or feel pain, you should use various methods to make the nodule or lump disappear in time. Will gradually disappear, and the pain will gradually be relieved or eliminated. In this way, the meridians are unobstructed, the yin and yang will tend to be balanced, and the hidden dangers of diseases will naturally be eliminated.

Rub by hand

Often rubbing Yongquan point under your feet can strengthen your body. Yongquan point is the well point of kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the innate foundation, and often soaking feet can tonify the kidney, replenish essence and strengthen the body. And the liver and kidney are homologous, the lungs and kidneys nourish each other, the heart and kidney complement each other, and the spleen and kidney complement each other. Strong renal function can also protect other organs, so you should rub your feet frequently. Mr. Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing, soaks his feet with Chili water every night, often alternating around Yongquan point in the heart of the foot for 65,438+000 times. Shi Lao called it "inducing fever and strengthening the body" and "foot-heart fitness". Shi Lao died at the age of 89, a long-lived person in the medical field. Instead of insisting on soaking feet and feet.

temperature

"Cold starts from the foot, and all diseases are born from cold", so keeping feet warm is one of the important ways to prevent diseases. The normal temperature of a healthy person's feet is about 22℃ on the toes and 28℃ on the soles. Too high or too low is morbid. If the toes are cold, most of them are head diseases, such as headache, head swelling, insomnia and insufficient blood supply to the brain. If the foot root is cold, it is mostly a symptom of kidney deficiency; If the whole foot is cold, it is mostly because of poor circulation of the lower limbs, which is a manifestation of deficiency of both qi and blood. Commonly used methods of foot thermal insulation are: rubbing, soaking feet in warm water, and exercising feet. These can keep your feet warm. Of course, you should wear more clothes in winter and cotton shoes and boots at the right time.

The function of pedicure

Feet are the second heart of human beings, and urban leisure school will naturally not miss it. As a result, the wave of foot health care is getting higher and higher, and a Chinese medicine health care industry-pedicure, that is, foot washing, is quietly emerging.

Because the feet bear the most weight in all parts of the body, they should support the whole body when standing and overcome gravity when walking and jumping. Therefore, feet are considered to be the gathering area of human toxins. Washing feet every day can not only keep feet clean, enhance metabolism, improve the resistance to exogenous pathogenic microorganisms, but also benefit the heart, brain and other organs.

Foot washing combined with traditional Chinese medicine physical therapy has a good health care effect on tired body. It is understood that the foot-soaking medicinal soup of professional pedicure institutions is made of more than 20 kinds of Chinese medicines, which has the effects of diminishing inflammation, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving itching. Many people who have tried pedicure will feel tired and mentally relieved, so they are addicted to pedicure. Pedicure has gradually become the "new favorite" of health care for middle-aged and elderly people.

However, some "pedicure houses" claim that pedicure can cure all diseases, and its method is to draw the reflection position of the foot first, and then press it one by one. As long as you shout pain, it may be kidney deficiency, constipation, enteritis, gastritis, cervical spondylosis and so on. And then the most advocated treatment is, of course, soaking feet with Chinese medicine, and then foot * * *.

For the viewpoint that "foot washing can cure all diseases", people in the industry point out that it is unscientific and people should correctly understand the function of pedicure. First, the location of the foot reflex zone only accords with some facts and cannot be used as a basis for diagnosis. It is unscientific to know what is wrong by touching your feet. Second, the formula of foot-soaking traditional Chinese medicine has not been verified by detailed pharmacological effects. Even if the drug itself is effective, it cannot be equated with the effect of soaking. Soaking can only absorb drugs through the foot plate, which has little effect. Thirdly, pedicure can prevent diseases and has a certain health care function, but it is not aimed at a certain disease, but at the whole body.

Objectively speaking, foot washing can indeed treat some diseases, but the main function is abnormal. Constipation, for example, is not the so-called plantar constipation point, but the treatment of the foot after clinical diagnosis, which varies greatly from individual to individual and is unrealistic to cure all diseases. At present, there is no treatment in the medical field that has this effect.

Warm your feet.

As the temperature drops, many women have cold hands and feet. Fill a bucket of hot water to warm your feet, and the whole person will get hot and feel very comfortable. Then take care of the feet that bear the whole body weight all day with a "grateful heart" to achieve the purpose of physical and mental health. According to traditional Chinese medicine, foot heat contributes to blood circulation throughout the body. In the past, it was difficult to get water in many places in China, so it was impossible to take a bath every day. Soaking feet is equivalent to taking a bath. In the movie "Hanging the Red Lantern High", it profoundly describes the feeling of the rich people enjoying foot bath and the position of foot bath in life.

Now because it is convenient to take a bath, the luster of foot bath is a bit lonely. In recent years, because of more and more healthy atmosphere, people pay more attention to it because of the warmth and fitness function brought by convenient foot bath. Kenyuan, which is famous for aromatherapy, insists that no matter what course of treatment, guests should soak their feet first when entering the aromatherapy room. Because the foot bears the weight of the whole body, it is the most tired part of the whole body, but because it is hidden in shoes, it is not often seen, so it is easy to be ignored. Xu Yilan, an aromatherapist at Kenyuan, said that the foot is equivalent to the second heart at the bottom of the body in terms of systemic circulation. The blood circulation of the feet is normal, the blood gas is warm, the lower body is not easy to edema, and there will be no varicose veins.

When soaking feet at home, you can add mint or tea tree essential oil, which has a calming effect and relieves foot pressure. Yang Ming, deputy manager of the training department of the body shop, said that after washing feet, the water temperature should be controlled at 38-42 degrees, and then the essential oil should be dripped and soaked for about 10- 15 minutes.

The soaking method can be only at the ankle or as high as the calf. If you want to strengthen women's functions, it is recommended to soak in acupoints-Zusanli is about half of the calf. Xu Yilan said that due to the influence of gravity, the blood in the legs will often rise and fall, the blood vessels will expand desperately, and there will be venous dilatation. If you use hot air to return blood, your whole body will warm up. If blood circulation is involved, there is no need to soak the calf. If you want to strengthen women's functions, you'd better soak in Zusanli.

At this time, you can exfoliate with * * *. Yang Ming said that when the feet are soaked for about five minutes and the epidermis is soft, take some scrub to exfoliate in circles. Where the stratum corneum is thick, pumice can peel off in one direction. Yang Ming emphasized that if you use pumice to exfoliate, or draw a circle to exfoliate, sometimes you will get hurt if you use too much force, and you can master it in a single direction.

When your feet leave the footbath, you don't need to dry them in a hurry. There is a moisturizing and easily absorbed leg cream on your skin. Zhang Naifang, a public relations officer of L 'Occitane, said that it is best not to dry the water on your feet with a towel. You can dry your feet a little with a towel and then rub foot cream on your feet from bottom to top. You can lock the water after applying foot cream.