1, women should pay attention to soaking their feet in winter
Women soak hot feet every day, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation and dredging meridians, thus playing a role in keeping warm from the cold, improving cold hands and feet, and being afraid of cold. Although soaking feet is good for health, there are also taboos. The following are the issues that women should pay attention to when soaking their feet in winter:
1. Soak your feet as long as possible.
Although soaking feet is good for your health, the longer you soak your feet, the better. This is because soaking feet will speed up the blood circulation and heart rate of the human body. Soaking for too long will increase the burden on the heart. Moreover, a large amount of blood will flock to the lower limbs. Over time, it will cause dizziness and palpitation due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, especially for patients with cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly. Soak your feet for no more than 15-20 minutes each time. A fever and a little sweat will be fine.
Don't soak your feet too hot.
Soaking feet in high water temperature is not only easy to burn the skin, but also easy to destroy the sebum film on the skin surface of the feet, which will make the skin dry. Moreover, the blood vessels in the feet will be excessively dilated, and a large amount of blood in the body will flow to the lower limbs, which will increase the burden on the heart. Usually the foot bath water is around 40℃.
3. Don't soak your feet in special times.
Just after eating, you go to soak your feet, and a lot of blood will rush to your lower limbs, which will reduce the blood supply to your stomach, and then you will have indigestion and make people feel uncomfortable. Moreover, soaking feet when you are too hungry, too tired and have a fever is harmful to your health. You must pay attention. In addition, it is best for female friends not to soak their feet during menstruation, otherwise it will easily lead to excessive menstrual blood and even collapse.
4. Don't trust folk remedies when soaking your feet.
There are many foot bath formulas on the market and online, and many women will try them. But female friends should pay attention that even if the substances in foot bath are beneficial to human body, not all health care products are suitable for them. It is recommended to ask the advice of Chinese medicine before using it.
5. It is recommended to use a wooden basin for soaking feet.
The wooden basin has a good insulation effect. Experiments show that the temperature of hot water in the barrel is only 2-3 degrees within one hour, which saves water and electricity and is durable. The material of the wooden basin has the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, which is incomparable to any other foot bath.
6. Pay attention to the wind when soaking your feet.
When soaking feet, after soaking, because the pores are open, it is particularly easy to catch cold. It is generally recommended to put on socks in time after soaking your feet, and don't let the cold invade.
7. You can't fall asleep immediately after soaking your feet
Many people are used to going to bed immediately after soaking their feet, but it is recommended not to go to bed immediately after soaking their feet. They can rub the soles of their feet while the whole body heat is relieved, and then go to sleep, thus achieving better health care effect. Keep warm when rubbing your feet.
2, the benefits of women's hot water soaking feet
1, regulating blood pressure
Chinese medicine believes that the five internal organs of the human body have corresponding projections on the feet. Foot is the starting point of Yin San Meridian of Foot and the end point of foot bath of Sanyang Meridian of Foot. There are more than 60 acupoints below ankle joint.
Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath can effectively prevent the side effects of drugs and has a good effect in treating hypertension. Because patients with hypertension need to take medicine for a long time, it is generally better to use traditional Chinese medicine for external use to reduce the hormone stimulation of drugs to the human body.
2, improve blood circulation
Foot bath can improve the blood circulation of the foot. The warming effect of water can dilate the blood vessels in the foot and raise the skin temperature, thus promoting the blood circulation in the foot and the whole body. According to the test, healthy people soak their feet in warm water at 40℃-45℃ for 30-40 minutes, and the whole body blood flow increases by three times10-/kloc-0.
3. Promote metabolism
Foot bath can promote blood circulation of feet and whole body. Due to the increase of blood circulation, it can regulate the functions of various endocrine glands and promote the secretion of various hormones, such as thyroid hormone secreted by the thyroid gland and adrenaline secreted by the adrenal gland, which can promote metabolism.
4, eliminate fatigue
When the human body is tired, the blood circulation of the foot is poor, and substances such as metabolic end products, calcium salts and lactic acid microcrystals are deposited first. When an organ of the human body is abnormal or sick, due to the influence of pathological reflection, the blood circulation of the foot is worse and deposits are more likely to be produced.
5, improve sleep
The foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries. Soaking feet with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This kind of warm stimulation is reflected in the cerebral cortex, which has an inhibitory effect on the cerebral cortex and is the smooth transformation from excited sympathetic nerve to parasympathetic nerve. After the parasympathetic nerve is excited, people are in a state of quiet rest, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia.
6, health and beauty, brain health and brain protection
Through hot foot bath, you can regulate meridians and qi and blood. At the same time, the blood vessels in the foot dilate and the blood volume increases, thus accelerating the blood flow in the head and supplementing the oxygen and nutrition needed by the brain in time.
3, foot bath regimen
(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.