For patients with chronic diseases, soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine is more effective. ? While soaking feet in hot water, if Chinese medicine is added to hot water, it can also play a role in strengthening the body for some elderly patients with chronic diseases. ?
Here are some simple foot bath prescriptions:
1。 Patients with qi deficiency can choose Dangshen, Astragalus, Atractylodes macrocephala and other qi-invigorating drugs. ? For patients with hypertension, Flos Chrysanthemi, Fructus Lycii, Ramulus Mori, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae and Borneolum Syntheticum should be lightly decocted to soak their feet. ?
2。 In winter, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Flos Carthami, Radix Dipsaci promote blood circulation and tonify kidney. ? Some elderly people have dry skin and are prone to chapping in winter. They can choose cassia twig, honeysuckle and safflower. ? Take the above traditional Chinese medicine
Boil 15-20g in a casserole, then pour the decocted liquid into a bucket and soak it in hot water for 30 minutes every day?
3。 Ginger soaking feet: cold feet, afraid of cold. Use a piece of ginger (ginger as big as dates) to flatten it with a knife. Take a piece of safflower, wrap it in gauze, put it in water, cook it together, and add a spoonful of salt to soak your feet. ?
? ? 4. safflower soaking feet: promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The drugstore bought one or two red flowers and divided them into 10. Take one, wrap it in gauze, boil it in water, and add a spoonful of salt. The method is to pump feet first and then soak feet to treat backache. ? The water that soaks your feet must be ankle bones.
5。 Take a red brick and heat it in the microwave for 2 to 3 minutes. Then wrap it up with a cloth pad and sit on it (riding posture). Used by people who usually have unobstructed stools. If it is difficult to defecate at ordinary times, you must insist on pushing your stomach. In fact, prone has a good effect. ? I mentioned the method of squeezing your stomach in my previous article. ? The red brick on the heating stove is ok, but it's not too hot.
? 6。 Artemisia argyi foot bath: the drugstore buys one or two pieces of Artemisia argyi and divides them into five parts. Wrap one-fifth of Folium Artemisiae Argyi with gauze at a time, put it in a pot and add water to boil. Whip your feet first, then soak them. When the water temperature is 40 to 50 degrees, soaking feet with water can treat respiratory diseases and eliminate colds. ? Soaking feet with safflower and mugwort leaves can treat cold hands and feet and backache. ?
7, pepper soaked in water to prevent foot odor, foot sweat, beriberi. Grab a handful of peppers, wrap them in emery cloth, put them in a pot, boil the water, pump your feet first, and then soak your feet when the water temperature drops.
8, vinegar soaking feet, put a spoonful to two spoonfuls of vinegar in the foot soaking water can cure the heel, which has the effect of softening the heel spur. Soaking feet with baking soda and salt can stabilize blood pressure. Boil the water with a spoonful of salt first, and then add baking soda. If the blood pressure is low, put less and put more. Severe hypertension, plus mustard foam. (Mustard instant noodles and baking soda mainly lower blood pressure)
Health care is as simple as that, just add it reasonably according to your physical condition. Finally, I would like to remind you that the time for soaking feet should be controlled at about 20 minutes. If it takes too long, it will exhaust the vitality in the body.