1, the efficacy of honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is cold and sweet, and enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. Its main function is to clear away heat and toxic materials, and to treat fever, bloody dysentery due to heat toxicity, carbuncle and furuncle. Modern medical research has proved that honeysuckle contains chlorogenic acid, luteolin and other pharmacologically active components, which has a strong inhibitory effect on pathogenic bacteria such as hemolytic streptococcus and staphylococcus aureus and pathogenic viruses of upper respiratory tract infection.
2. What are the benefits of soaking feet with honeysuckle?
Boiling water, soaking feet or bathing with honeysuckle vine has a good effect on treating eczema, wind-heat cold, pharyngitis, pneumonia, dysentery, erysipelas and other diseases.
3. Method of soaking feet with honeysuckle
Ingredients: 50 grams of forsythia suspensa, 30 grams of honeysuckle vine and 30 grams of mint each.
Practice: decoct the three herbs in water, warm the juice, and then pour them into a basin to soak their feet. Daily 1 dose, 30 minutes each time, 3 days as a course of treatment. Use a course of treatment every week.
Efficacy: This prescription has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, pungent and cool, relieving exterior syndrome, and can improve eczema, sore throat, cough with yellow phlegm and other symptoms caused by wind-heat cold.
4. Tips
It is good to soak your feet with honeysuckle, but if you can't judge your physical condition, don't soak your feet with Chinese herbal medicine without authorization, so as not to cause discomfort. In addition, pregnant women should not soak their feet with Chinese herbal medicine at will to avoid adverse effects on the fetus.
5, foot bath taboo to know
1, too full to soak your feet.
When soaking feet, don't be too full, too hungry or eat, because foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, which is prone to dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
2, patients with severe heart disease, hypotension beware of syncope.
It is okay for healthy people to soak their feet or soak in hot springs, but special people, such as people with heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, low blood pressure and frequent dizziness, should not soak their feet or soak in hot springs for a long time. Because soaking feet in hot water or soaking in hot springs will dilate blood vessels, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will inevitably lead to ischemia and hypoxia in important organs such as the heart and brain. For people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase the risk of illness.
3, diabetic patients must pay attention to the water temperature.
The peripheral nerves of diabetic patients can't sense the outside temperature normally, even if the water temperature is high, and they are easy to burn, which will lead to very serious consequences, so pay attention to the water temperature of soaking feet.
4, beriberi patients should be careful of infection.
People with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water when their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn are not easy to soak.
5. Old people should not soak their feet for too long.
Old people who soak their feet for too long will have symptoms such as sweating and palpitation. Therefore, it is better for the elderly to soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day.
6. There is no need for babies to soak their feet.
Because children are pure yang, they are prone to fever and fall in love with fire. If you soak your feet in hot water and sweat again, you will get hot. Just wash your feet with warm water every day. After washing, you can gently pinch your feet and relax your muscles.