1, adaptation symptoms of hot pepper foot soaking
1, the indication of foot soaking with pepper water has obvious curative effect on leg and foot edema and low back pain caused by kidney deficiency.
2. It has obvious curative effect on chronic diarrhea and chills caused by internal cold of cold constitution.
3. It has obvious effect on dry eyes, costalgia, dizziness and toothache caused by liver deficiency and fire excess.
4. It has obvious effect on abdominal distension, dyspepsia and dyspepsia caused by spleen-stomach yang deficiency.
5, because it supplements the liver, kidney and lungs, it also has the functions of dredging waterways, eliminating phlegm, being full of energy and strengthening bones and muscles.
In addition, it also has certain curative effect on hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. Because some diseases involve many aspects of Chinese medicine, such as deficiency of both yin and yang, it is not only necessary to supplement yang qi, but also to take measures according to the condition, which varies from person to person to solve the fundamental problem.
2. What are the benefits of soaking feet with Chili?
1, promoting sleep
Chinese medicine believes that soaking feet with Chili water can promote sleep more than soaking feet with hot water. In fact, the method is very simple. Wrap 50 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum (1 kg 10) in cotton cloth, tie it with a rope, boil water, and soak your feet with this water. Pepper bags can be reused, and they can be replaced in about a week.
2, pepper soaking feet 10 minutes is the most refreshing.
The water temperature is generally 40-50 degrees Celsius, so it is advisable to have red skin on your feet and slight sweat stains on your face. If you can soak your feet with 2% salt water every morning and evening, it is good for your health, or add a small amount of pepper or mustard to the hot water for soaking your feet, which will help improve the blood circulation of your feet.
3, pepper soaking feet can dispel cold
When you soak your feet, you can add some cold-dispelling drugs, such as peppers, to the water. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent and warm, which can dispel the cold of internal organs, dredge blood vessels and adjust joints. First, grab a handful of pepper and add some water to fry. When the drug effect is completely integrated into the water, pour it into the basin, smoke the feet first, and then soak the feet when the water temperature drops to the usable level. In this process, pepper water can be continuously added. It's best to soak for half an hour without reaching your ankles. It is best to sweat slightly all over.
4. Soaking feet with pepper can prevent influenza.
Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing, insisted on soaking his feet with Chili water every night before his death, and then alternately massaged Yongquan point 100 times with his left and right hands for health care. Soaking feet with hot pepper water, combined with massage, can dredge the meridians of the whole body, unblock blood vessels, and regulate human functions, thus achieving the effect of self-care.
5, pepper soaking feet to enhance immunity
Soak in Chili water and wash. Wash your feet before going to bed every night and then soak in this soup. It can cure diseases, and most obviously, it can enhance immunity to influenza virus or other infectious diseases. In addition, it has the functions of sterilization, disinfection, pain relief, itching relief and swelling reduction.
6. Soaking feet with Chili water can prevent foot odor, sweaty feet and beriberi.
Grab a handful of peppers, wrap them in emery cloth, put them in a pot, boil them with water, smoke their feet first, and then soak them when the water temperature is enough.
3. Precautions for soaking feet in Chili peppers
1. Soaking feet with Chili water is not suitable for a long time. If you feel that the original symptoms have disappeared, you should stop for a few days and come back when the symptoms are insufficient. Otherwise, there may be phenomena such as "insufficient breath" and "incompatibility between water and fire" mentioned in ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine. In this respect, from my experience, excessive use of pepper water to soak feet mainly causes "lung fire", and then "fire eats gas", so qi deficiency, in addition to cough, runny nose, phlegm and other lung problems, easy to catch a cold, which also proves this point.
2, people with symptoms of yin deficiency, in the process of soaking feet with Chili water, should pay attention to timely yin, especially in winter. Because soaking feet with Chili water has the functions of dredging meridians, dispelling cold and promoting digestion, and sweating will occur in this process, it feels as "dry" as other yang-tonifying drugs, especially those with symptoms of yin deficiency. Soaking feet with Chili water should be combined with nourishing yin, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency. From my personal experience, because of frequent physical activity, I sweat a lot. If I don't pay attention to nourishing yin, I often have symptoms of yin deficiency, so I often consciously replenish yin, such as boiling water with yam, boiling water with lotus root, boiling water with pears, or eating some fruits. , timely replenish water in the body. Note: For many middle-aged and elderly people, the effect of nourishing yin by drinking white water alone is not necessarily ideal, especially for people with yin deficiency.
3. Some people, especially those with cold constitution, have a very good effect of soaking their feet with pepper water, but they have a discharge reaction after soaking their feet with pepper water for the first few times (see the article "Record of Discharge Reaction of Soaking Feet with Pepper Water" in this blog for details). Symptoms are similar to a cold, which is a normal reaction and a manifestation of the disease leaving the human body. Do not stop. Look at the reason or find a professional.
4. Because of the obvious absorption effect of drug foot-soaking, I don't think Zanthoxylum bungeanum water should be used repeatedly too many times to prevent the corrupt Zanthoxylum bungeanum water from having adverse effects on the body. If you want to keep it, it is recommended to use it for two or three times at most, but you should heat it to boiling, and then cool it to a suitable temperature before using it.
5, the time to soak your feet can not be too long, generally just sweating is appropriate, it is best not to sweat. For people who have just started to soak their feet or have a cold constitution, they may not sweat for a while at first, which is a manifestation of cold in the body. Dose and frequency can be increased appropriately until they sweat.
6, the water temperature can not be too low, it feels a little hot, it should be constant temperature;
7, foot bath time, if it is health care, generally around 9 pm is appropriate. If it is for treatment, it is suggested to be flexible in the morning, and can it be twice a day if necessary?
8. It is better to soak your feet with your hands or massage your feet with your hands.
4. Various other foot soaking methods
(1) mugwort leaves soak feet.
Take 50- 100g of dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict standard), first add water to boil, then add cold water or soak feet after the temperature is lowered. If it's too much trouble, soak the mugwort leaves in some hot water for 20 minutes and then add water to soak your feet.
A few small prescriptions for mugwort soaking feet:
(1) wormwood and ginger can treat colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid diseases, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
(2) wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.
(3) Adding salt to wormwood is suitable for upper energizer with fire, which often leads to jealousy, toothache, sore throat, irritability, catching a cold due to excessive internal heat, and edema of legs and feet.
(4) 20 capsules of Chinese prickly ash are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
(2) Soak your feet with vinegar
Selection of vinegar: (rice vinegar or aged vinegar100-150g)
The role of vinegar soaking feet:
(1) can solve the problem of foot odor. Soaking feet with vinegar can sterilize and treat beriberi to some extent.
(2) It can relieve fatigue.
(3) It can moisturize skin, soften cutin and increase skin elasticity.
(4) It can dispel wind and dampness and improve the symptoms of chills.
(5) Treating sleep disorders.
(6) Vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood garbage and pathological deposits, and cure many chronic diseases.
(3) almond tea soaking feet
Bitter almond 45g, green tea 10g. Put the above medicines together in a pot, add 2000 ml of water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove residues and get juice. Apply 1 vial to face and arms, pour the rest into a basin, and soak for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 20 days is 1 course of treatment. It can moisten skin, diminish inflammation and sterilize, supplement vitamins and minerals, and prevent and treat skin chlorosis, blackness and roughness, acne and scabies.
(4) Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine
For women with dysmenorrhea, we can try to stick to traditional Chinese medicine to soak feet to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea.
1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
Its symptoms are abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, dark menstrual blood with blood clots. People with such symptoms should reconcile qi and blood, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Because women mainly live in the liver, the drugs chosen for foot bath are mainly drugs with foot-jueyin entering the liver meridian, and appropriate amount of menstrual vinegar is added, such as 30g of Green Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, 30g of Linderae Radix, 30g of Motherwort, Chuanxiong 10g, and safflower 10g. Add about two liters of water and about 50 ml of vinegar, boil it with strong fire, and fry it with low fire for 30 minutes. When the medicine is cooled to 50℃, pour the residue into a basin to soak feet. The amount of medicine in the basin should be immersed in the ankle joint. If the liquid medicine is insufficient, add appropriate amount of warm water. The feet keep moving in the medicine, so that the soles of the feet receive slight physical stimulation from the dregs for more than 30 minutes at a time.
2. Yang deficiency and cold excess type
Its symptoms are cold pain in the lower abdomen, less pain in hot compress and chills in hands and feet. The principle of warming channels and dispelling cold should be used to relieve pain. Because there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that the kidney governs the whole body yang, the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly those with insufficient yin entering the kidney meridian, and appropriate amount of salt water should be added, such as cinnamon, clove, linderae, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong each 15g, dried ginger, fennel and Evodia rutaecarpa each 6g, and a little salt can be decocted.
3. Deficiency of qi and blood
Its symptom is a dull pain in the lower abdomen during or after menstruation, and there will be slight pain when pressing the abdomen with your hand. The menstrual flow is small and pale, so it is necessary to replenish qi, nourish blood and regulate menstruation. Traditional Chinese medicine is called "spleen regulating blood", and the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly drugs that enter the Taiyin spleen meridian, and appropriate amount of sweet water can be added. For example, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Eucommiae Cortex, and Radix Astragali 15g can be used for foot bath, and appropriate amount of maltose and boiled water can be added.