Can pepper soak feet to get rid of dampness?
Zanthoxylum bungeanum soaking feet can get rid of dampness.
This is mainly because Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating the stomach and removing dampness. The method of soaking feet with pepper water is also very simple. Take a piece of cotton cloth or gauze and wrap a bag of pepper, which is about the size of a person's sole. Tie your mouth with a cotton rope and put it in the pot for 30 minutes to soak your feet. This kind of chili bag can be cooked several times, because the fragrance of chili will still exist after cooking several times, so it is a very economical method. Mr. Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing in the old days, dried his feet with Chili. In addition, it can not only soak feet with pepper water to remove dampness, but also be made by soaking peppers with white wine, and it can also dispel cold, dispel wind and remove dampness, remove blood stasis and dredge collaterals. In addition, if you add a few peppers to ginger jujube tea and cook it together, it is pepper ginger jujube tea, which has a stronger effect of dispelling cold and dampness and can also stop abdominal pain. Zanthoxylum bungeanum, ginger and jujube tea is suitable for people with severe cold and dampness in the lower energizer, such as female uterine cold (frequent and sparse leucorrhea, prolonged dysmenorrhea), male kidney cold, and chronic diarrhea due to stomach deficiency. When you have cold abdominal pain, especially after women drink cold water during menstruation, you can also drink some pepper and ginger jujube tea to relieve it.
How to dispel dampness and cold with pepper
As the saying goes, "It's better to take tonic than to soak your feet in hot water." Soaking feet with Chili water can promote sleep better than soaking feet with hot water. The method is simple. Wrap 50 grams of pepper in cotton cloth, tie it with a rope, boil it with water, and soak your feet with this water. Pepper bags can be reused, and they can be replaced in about a week.
In the view of Chinese medicine, pepper can warm the middle 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. Clinically, children love to cough, 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.
A small way to remove water
1. Eat more barley and red bean porridge.
Eat more barley and red beans. barley and red beans are tasteless medicinal materials. Both can effectively remove moisture in the body, especially those who often have edema, and should eat more. In addition, Poria cocos, yam, codonopsis pilosula, dried tangerine peel with lean meat or pig bones can also be used to make soup, or to cook porridge and boil water for drinking, which can also play the role of diuresis and dehumidification. However, both of these methods have diuretic effect, and people with frequent urination should not use them more.
2. Eat less salt and strengthen the spleen.
"Heavy taste" is easy to absorb moisture, because too much salt will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach. So eat less salty food and eat more liquid and whole grains.
Clever use of ginger
Ginger is not only a condiment, but also has irreplaceable medicinal value. Drinking hot ginger soup often can force moisture out of the body, and after sweating all over, the symptoms will be alleviated. "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer" has certain scientific truth.
In addition, you can also drink dampness-removing tea. The coix seed dampness-eliminating tea is carefully prepared from seven natural ingredients, namely Euryale Semen, Coix seed, Gardenia, Poria, Lycium barbarum, Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Chrysanthemum, according to the traditional Chinese medicine prescription "monarch, minister, assistant and envoy", which can not only eliminate dampness but also strengthen the spleen. Eliminating dampness and cold, tonifying deficiency and clearing heat, and improving sub-health. You can drink it willfully every day, and the key to eliminating dampness lies in strengthening the spleen. Euryale ferox is mainly used for invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, tonifying kidney and fixing essence, strengthening body and eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, reducing swelling, clearing heat and expelling pus and beautifying face. Flos Chrysanthemi, Fructus Lycii and Poria have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling wind, clearing liver and improving eyesight. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch have the functions of purging fire and relieving annoyance, clearing away damp-heat, protecting liver and gallbladder, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.