Zanthoxylum bungeanum is warm and pungent, and has the effects of warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold, invigorating stomach and removing dampness, relieving pain and killing insects, detoxifying and regulating qi, relieving itching and removing fishy smell; Can be used for treating dyspepsia, abstinence from alcohol, hiccup, emesis, arthralgia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery, ascaris, pruritus vulvae, etc. If you add some pepper to the foot bath, its effect will be even more wonderful. There are many other good effects. How much do you know?
Relieve fatigue and improve sleep. Chinese medicine believes that soaking feet with Chili water can promote sleep more than soaking feet with hot water. Pepper bags can be reused, and they can be replaced in about a week.
Dehumidification and cold sterilization. Wash your feet with pepper, and then soak your feet with this soup before going to bed every night. The most obvious thing is that it can enhance the immunity to influenza virus or other infectious diseases, and it can dehumidify, sterilize and dispel cold!
Enhance resistance. In the high incidence of influenza in winter, soaking feet with Zanthoxylum bungeanum decoction can not only eliminate fatigue and preserve health, but also prevent influenza and enhance human immunity to infectious diseases such as influenza virus.
Treat beriberi. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can relieve itching and kill insects, and soaking feet with Zanthoxylum bungeanum water also has the effect of treating beriberi.
So what are the taboos for soaking feet with Chili water?
Not too long. Foot bath time should not be too long. It is generally advisable to just sweat, and it is best not to sweat. For people who have just started to soak their feet or have a cold constitution, they may not be able to sweat after soaking their feet for a while, which is a sign of severe cold in the body. At this time, you can appropriately increase the amount of pepper and the number of foot baths until you sweat. It is best not to soak your feet for more than half an hour at a time, because soaking your feet will speed up the blood circulation and heart rate of the human body, and if it takes too long, it will increase the burden on your heart.
Not too often. Soaking feet with Chili water is not suitable for a long time. If the original symptoms disappear, the drug should be stopped for a few days. Excessive use of pepper water to soak feet mainly causes "lung fire" and then "fire eating gas", so qi deficiency. In addition, there are lung problems such as cough, runny nose, excessive phlegm, and easy to catch a cold, which also proves this point, but compared with its many effects on the body, this small problem is not worth mentioning at all. Just pay attention.
Old people and insomnia should not soak more. For healthy people, low-temperature short-time foot bath is helpful to sleep, but it has little effect on the elderly and people with poor sleep. Soaking feet for a long time at high temperature will also increase the body temperature of the tip and core at the same time, which is not conducive to sleep.
It is not advisable to soak during menstruation. Women should not soak their feet with Chili water during menstruation, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of dysmenorrhea; Foot bath water should not be too hot, too high water temperature will lead to congestion in the feet, and insufficient blood supply to the heart, brain and kidney will lead to dizziness.
Children should not soak. The arch of the foot began to form in childhood. If the child is often soaked in hot water, it will have a certain impact on the function of nerves and blood vessels of the foot, especially if it is often soaked or scalded, the plantar ligament of the child will become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch of the foot. In the long run, it will increase the risk of forming flat feet.