What are the benefits of soaking feet often?
We can soak our feet with hot water every night, which can help us to relieve the fatigue of the day. Besides, there are many blood vessels on our feet, which can help us to warm various organs of the body and improve our immunity.
At present, because of the convenience of bathing, many people never soak their feet alone, but bathing and bathing dilate the whole body's blood vessels, and most of the blood flows to limbs, viscera and brain, which is prone to ischemic symptoms. Therefore, when people are overtired and weak, they are prone to dizziness, palpitation and fatigue.
Soak your feet in a high bucket and relax the meridians on your feet and calves through heat, thus speeding up blood circulation and improving blood supply to organs such as the heart and brain. With the continuous increase of heat, you will sweat slightly, which can dredge meridians, discharge cold and waste in the body, regulate body temperature and reduce virtual fire.
Our present lifestyles can be described as varied, and the best way to help us stay healthy and relaxed is to soak our feet. Have we who pay attention to appearance ever loved our feet?
Moreover, for people who are weak and unable to take tonic in autumn and winter, foot massage can not only help them warm their limbs, but also avoid the symptoms of getting angry because they don't take tonic. What should I soak my feet with? Let me talk about it! !
Foot soaking formula
Ginger soaking feet
Feet are cold and afraid of cold. Use a piece of ginger (a piece as big as a jujube) to pat it flat with a knife. Wrap safflower and a piece in gauze and put it in water to boil. Add a spoonful of salt to soak your feet.
Honghua paojiao
Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, the drugstore bought one or two safflower, divided into 10. Take a part, wrap it in gauze and boil it in water, then add a spoonful of salt. The method is to smoke your feet first and then soak them to cure low back pain. The water for soaking feet must pass through the ankle bone. )
Salt safflower
Safflower can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and adding salt safflower can treat varicose veins in legs.
Ai ye pao jiao
Can be used for treating respiratory diseases and wind-cold. The drugstore buys one or two mugwort leaves and divides them into five parts. One fifth of the Folium Artemisiae Argyi at a time is wrapped in gauze and put into a pot to boil with water. Smoke your feet first, then soak them. When the water temperature is 40 to 50 degrees, soak your feet in water.
Detailed steps and methods of soaking feet
Ai ye pao jiao
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.
Several small prescriptions of mugwort leaf soaking feet
1, wormwood and ginger can treat colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid, 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, wormwood salt is suitable for upper coke and lower fire, often jealous, toothache, sore throat, irritability, getting angry and catching cold, swollen feet and legs.
4, mugwort pepper 20 tablets, suitable for foot sweat, foot odor, beriberi, warm rash.
Soak your feet in vinegar.
Selection of vinegar
(Rice vinegar or aged vinegar 100- 150g)
The role of vinegar soaking feet
1, which 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, can get rid of rheumatism and improve the symptoms of chills.
5, treatment of sleep disorders.
6. Vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood waste and pathological deposits, and cure many chronic diseases.
Pepper soaking feet
Can prevent foot odor, sweaty feet and beriberi. Grab a handful of pepper, wrap it in emery cloth, put it in a pot and boil it in water. Smoke your feet first, and then soak them when the water temperature is enough.
Almond tea formula
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.
Formula for treating dysmenorrhea
20g of Pollen Typhae, 20g of Oletum Trogopterori, 20g of Rhizoma Cyperi, 20g of Rhizoma Corydalis, 20g of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 0g of Radix Paeoniae Rubra15g, 0g of Semen Persicae10g, and 0g of Myrrh10g. Add 2500 ml of water to the medicine, boil it for 15 minutes, then leave the fire, first smoke the feet with the steam of the liquid medicine, and then soak the feet in the liquid medicine when the temperature is suitable. Soak 1.5-20 minutes each time, smoke and wash 1 time every morning and evening, and use each dose repeatedly for two days. Take medicine about 3 days before menstruation, with 3-5 doses for 3 menstrual cycles. You can also soak your feet with fennel 200g once a day.
Problems needing attention in foot bath medicine
1. Method of soaking feet
Soak your feet in the bucket. Although the wooden barrel has good insulation effect, it is too heavy and expensive to use. You can buy a higher plastic bucket in the supermarket instead and heat the water while soaking. There are many electric footbath now. It would be better if they could be made higher and as deep as buckets.
Soak your feet
Most people will choose to soak their feet before going to bed, which is convenient and conducive to sleep. But if you have enough time, especially the elderly, you can soak your feet around 4 ~ 5 pm, that is, when the bladder and kidney meridians are the most vigorous, the effect of tonifying the kidney is the best.
Every time I soak my feet, I usually feel hot all over my body and sweat slightly. Even if you soak your feet, drink plenty of water and replenish water in time. It is best to drink warm water or ginger brown sugar water while soaking feet, so that more heat can be generated inside the body, and cold and dampness can be eliminated in time through sweating.
Children soak their feet mostly in winter or when they catch a cold, and they should also soak their feet and sweat when they catch a cold.
3. Foot bath water temperature
According to everyone's specific heat resistance, the temperature can be lower at first, then slowly add hot water and keep heating until the whole body is hot.
4. Why are some people not easy to sweat after soaking their feet?
People who have been soaking their feet for many years do not have this problem. Only people who have just started soaking their feet will have this situation. The reason is that the body is cold and wet. As long as you persist in soaking your feet and slowly eliminate the cold and dampness in your body, it is easy to sweat.
Through the above introduction, I think everyone has a new understanding of foot bathing. Feet are our more important organs. We should treat our feet well, so that we will not only have a healthy foot, but also have a healthy body. Don't forget to treat your feet after a busy day.