1. Is there anything suitable for soaking feet in winter?
1, ginger
Ginger can stimulate capillaries and improve local blood circulation and metabolism. People who are afraid of cold and easy to get cold hands and feet can soak their feet with ginger. If the amount of water used for soaking feet is large, or the symptoms of being afraid of cold are serious, the amount of ginger can be appropriately increased.
Practice: Take ginger15-30g (about half a slice of ginger with the same size), pat it flat, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot, and cook it in hot water for about 10 minute. After cooking, pour out all the Jiang Shui, and add appropriate amount of cold water to about 40℃ (generally it is better to feel it is not hot). When soaking your feet, don't let the water pass over your ankles. You'd better rub your feet when soaking.
2. Cinnamon
Both cinnamon and pepper have the effects of warming kidney and strengthening yang. Soaking feet with them can relieve edema caused by kidney disease.
Practice: Boil pepper and cinnamon 15g each (a handful or a small piece) and soak your feet. Cooking method is the same as ginger. Continuous foot soaking in this way can play a certain role in reducing swelling.
3, safflower
Safflower can promote blood circulation, dredge channels, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. People who are prone to chilblain and chapped skin in winter, using safflower to soak their feet in early autumn can play a very good preventive role.
Practice: Take 10- 15g (about a handful) of safflower and soak your feet with boiling water as mentioned above, which can prevent and improve chilblain.
Step 4 worry
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage, and is also a commonly used medicine in acupuncture. Soaking feet with wormwood can also improve lung function, which is very beneficial to people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white sputum.
Practice: The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that with ginger. Generally, 30-50g (a handful) of dried wormwood is used to soak feet. The cooking method is the same as above. Patients with severe cold and dampness can soak their feet with wormwood once a week. You can also soak your feet with wormwood water and drink a cup of ginger and red jujube water (10 dried red jujube plus two pieces of ginger and ten bowls of water for two hours) as an assistant.
2. Other health-preserving foot-soaking therapies
1, for beriberi
The method of soaking feet in salt water is very simple. Just add two tablespoons of salt to half a basin of hot water. Soaking feet with salt water often can sterilize and prevent beriberi, and can also keep the skin of feet smooth and clean.
2. Treat mild obesity
Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Radix Saposhnikoviae each have 65,438 00 grams, while Ramulus Cinnamomi, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Notopterygii Rhizoma each have 65,438 05 grams. Similarly, soak the medicinal materials in 1L cold water for 15 minutes, then add 1L water and boil it on fire. If there are many medicinal materials, they can be wrapped in tulle cloth, so that the decoction does not need to be filtered after decoction. Pour the soup into the foot bath until the soup does not reach the ankle. Keep the water temperature at about 40 degrees and soak for about half an hour.
3. Treat fatty obesity
200 grams of winter melon skin, Poria cocos100g, papaya100g. After boiling in water to remove residue, mix it into foot bath and soak your feet for 30-40 minutes at a time until you sweat slightly. Once a day, 20-30 days is a course of treatment.
4. Stable blood pressure
Soaking feet with baking soda and salt can stabilize blood pressure. Boil the water with a spoonful of salt first, and then add baking soda. If the blood pressure is low, put less and put more. Severe hypertension, plus mustard foam. Mustard instant noodles and baking soda mainly lower blood pressure.
3, 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.