It mainly includes the choice of foot bath, foot bath chair, foot bath sofa and foot bath health care medicinal materials, which are divided into family and public places. Home is very comfortable and can be purchased according to personal needs. The comfort and appearance of its supporting equipment also have a certain influence on the mood of foot bathers. Public places, such as foot bath shops, foot massage clubs, etc., need to buy in line with public habits, pay attention to firmness and aesthetics. Depending on the decoration and style of the shop. First put your feet in water at about 37℃, and then let the bath water gradually heat up to about 42℃ to keep the water temperature. When washing your feet, water usually overflows your ankles, so you should exercise regularly. The foot bath time should not be less than 30 minutes, and 40 minutes is more appropriate. This is a common hot foot bath method. There is also a method of hot foot bath with traditional Chinese medicine: before each foot bath, the decocted liquid medicine is put into water (which can be diluted with water), and then it is carried out according to the method of ordinary hot foot bath. And foot bath should pay attention to:
First, when soaking feet, we should pay attention to moderate temperature (40-45℃ is the best), which can not only prevent the water temperature from burning the skin, especially those who are unconscious and unable to take care of themselves, but also make cold water constrict blood vessels, which is beneficial to health. It is best to let the water temperature gradually heat up according to the situation of the feet.
Second, the foot bath time should be 30-40 minutes, and the water temperature should be kept during the foot bath time. Especially in the foot bath treatment, only by maintaining a certain temperature and ensuring the prescribed foot bath time can the curative effect of the medicine be maximized, thus achieving the therapeutic effect.
Thirdly, when soaking feet with drugs, if you give your feet proper physical stimulation, such as massage, pinching or rubbing your feet, you can also use a foot bath with heating and massage functions to soak your feet, and the effect is better.
Fourth, foot bath should not be 30 minutes before and after meals. Because the blood vessels in the foot dilate, the blood volume increases, and the blood in the gastrointestinal tract and viscera decreases, which affects the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract. Soaking feet before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not conducive to digestion. Foot bath immediately after meals will reduce the blood volume of gastrointestinal tract and affect digestion.
Fifth, when taking foot bath, some drugs can blister externally, or local skin is red and itchy. Some patients have special constitutions and may have allergic reactions after taking the medicine. After these symptoms appear, medication should be stopped.
Sixth, the dosage of external drugs used for foot bath is large, and some drugs are toxic, so they are generally not suitable for import. At the same time, after foot medication, the affected area should be cleaned and dried.
Seventh, people with infectious skin diseases, such as tinea pedis, should pay attention to the possibility of self-infection and cross-infection. Members of the same family should use their own bathtubs to prevent cross-infection or spread infectious diseases.
Eighth, when doing foot bath, due to the expansion of blood vessels in the feet and lower limbs, the blood volume increases, which can cause acute anemia and dizziness in the head. When the above symptoms appear, you can wash your feet with cold water, so that the blood vessels in your feet contract and the blood fully flows to your head, thus eliminating acute anemia in your head and relieving the symptoms.
Ninth, patients with bleeding and other symptoms should not take foot bath. Foot massage "three disciplines": the foot has five reflex zones: celiac plexus, spleen, kidney, ureter and bladder. These five reflex zones must be strengthened at the beginning or end of massage.
Most of the important acupoints in the human body are located at the golden section, and their nerve structures and mast cells are relatively concentrated, which is the part of the human body control system where physiological or pathological information is easily transmitted at the output end of the body surface and the body surface perceives external information. According to research, in the process of meridian induction, mast cells release a variety of active substances and collide with trace substances of traditional Chinese medicine, which can improve the excitability of nerve endings on the skin surface. Trace bioactive substances (traditional Chinese medicine) can produce obvious physiological signal amplification at important acupuncture points of human body under the action of negative pressure in vivo, thus strengthening the attack power of drugs. Its permeation rate is related to drug concentration, solvent composition, aromaticity, skin dryness and wetness, and blood flow rate. Foot bath massage is a new fashion of modern human health care, and it is also a traditional recuperation method to prevent diseases, eliminate fatigue and relax body and mind, which is popular all over the world. Foot massage technicians are divided into four types: primary, intermediate, advanced and technician. Anyone who has passed the training and passed the examination can obtain a valid national vocational skill certificate for going abroad, which is called a "passport" for international employment.
The assessment of foot bath massage technicians is divided into theoretical assessment and practical skill assessment. Foreign training institutions or students can translate the relevant examination materials into their own languages, conduct training at home or in their own countries, and then organize relevant teachers to provide intensive counseling and arrange examinations in a unified way. The distribution of plantar reflex zone is to reduce the projection of the whole human body and reflect it to the foot, which is a manifestation of local reflection as a whole. When the internal organs of the human body are diseased, the corresponding reflex zone of the foot will be tender, so this part is the pathological reflex zone, and these reflex zones will be the focus of treatment. When doing foot massage, you can press and knead the reflection area with the rib surface of your thumb and the interphalangeal joints of your index finger and middle finger, or you can stimulate the reflection area with some smooth plastic sticks. Foot massage generally focuses on the parts with strong tenderness reaction, and is treated in the order of first left foot and then right foot, first main area and then important area.
There are more than 60 reflection points on human feet, corresponding to the main organs of the human body. The greater the massage, the better. Some people mistakenly think that the more painful it is, the more effective it is. If you hold back, it will lead to foot injuries. A professionally trained masseur can achieve the desired effect if he massages properly. On the contrary, it will bring many disadvantages. There is a folk proverb, "To raise trees, we should protect our roots, while to raise people, we should protect our feet". As the temperature drops gradually, more and more people like to soak their feet with hot water before going to bed. Soaking feet with hot water can not only promote blood circulation of feet, reduce local muscle tension, but also help to eliminate fatigue and improve sleep. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that foot is the starting and ending point of foot three yin meridians and foot three yang meridians, which is closely related to all viscera and meridians of the whole body. Soaking feet with hot water can regulate the function of zang-fu organs and enhance physical fitness.
In life, some people are used to soaking their feet in red, thinking that the higher the water temperature, the better the effect. In fact, the foot bath water should not be too hot, and about 40℃ is appropriate. This is because: on the one hand, the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels in both feet are prone to over-expansion, and the blood in the human body flows more to the lower limbs, which is easy to cause insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney, especially for friends with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury; On the other hand, if the water temperature is too high, it is easy to destroy the sebum membrane on the skin surface of the foot, making the stratum corneum dry or even chapped.
Children who are developing should pay special attention to the fact that if they soak their feet with overheated water, the plantar ligament will be deformed and relaxed due to heat, which is not conducive to the development of the arch of the foot, and it is easy to induce flat feet after a long time. Diabetic patients should also pay special attention to the level of water temperature, because such patients are prone to peripheral neuropathy, so that peripheral nerves can not perceive the external temperature normally. Even if the water temperature is high, they can't feel it, and they are easy to get burned.
Besides the water temperature, you should also pay attention to the following issues when soaking your feet:
First, the foot soaking time should not be too long, and 15 ~ 30 minutes is appropriate. In the process of soaking feet, due to the accelerated blood circulation, the heart rate is faster than usual. Too long, it is easy to increase the burden on the heart. In addition, because more blood will rush to the lower limbs, people with weak constitution are prone to dizziness due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, and even faint in severe cases. Among them, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should pay special attention. If you feel chest tightness and dizziness, you should temporarily stop soaking your feet and lie in bed immediately.
Second, it is not advisable to soak your feet for half an hour after a meal. After a meal, most of the blood in the human body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water immediately after a meal, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead, which will affect digestion and absorption for a long time and lead to nutritional deficiency. Therefore, it is best to wash feet after eating 1 hour.
Third, traditional Chinese medicine should not use metal pots such as copper pots to soak feet. Many patients suffer from heel pain, insomnia, dysmenorrhea, hypertension and other diseases. Usually, traditional Chinese medicine is used as an auxiliary treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine does not use metal pots such as copper pots to soak feet, because the chemical components in such pots are unstable and easily react with tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine to generate various harmful substances such as iron tannic acid, which greatly reduces the curative effect of drugs. It is best to use wooden pots or enamel pots for soaking feet in traditional Chinese medicine.
Summer-sterilization, dehumidification, keeping feet clean and preventing beriberi.
Summer is the season when people care about sweaty feet and smelly feet. When you get home and take off your shoes, your feet will feel free from the sultry heat after a hard day. In order to clean the relaxed and free sweaty feet, baking soda with deodorizing effect and tea tree essential oil with super bactericidal power will be used here. It is highly recommended to try this method in summer. Materials (1 copy)
Baking soda 1/4 cups
Warm water 2 liters
Tea tree essential oil 1 drop
working methods
1 Add tea tree essential oil to baking soda and gently stir and mix.
2 Add warm water to 1.
use
Soak your feet in water for about 10 ~ 15 minutes, and then dry them with a towel.
Sticking to "hot foot bath" every day can regulate endocrine system and decompose body fat, thus achieving the purpose of losing weight and beautifying.