1, foot bath therapy
1, ginger dispelling cold
Ginger is a pungent and warm medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the function of dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, and has little toxic and side effects. Modern medicine believes that 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.
It should be noted that soaking feet with ginger does not mean soaking ginger in hot water for a while. Generally, take15-30g of ginger (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.
Many of the medicinal ingredients in ginger are small molecular substances, which can be avoided by covering the pot and cooking. The amount of half a slice of ginger is the amount of water in the basin used by ordinary families to soak their feet 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. After soaking feet with Jiang Shui for a period of time, the symptoms of being afraid of cold can generally be improved to some extent.
2, wormwood warms the lungs
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood is a kind of drug with flat nature, bitter taste and no toxicity. It has the functions of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage, and is also commonly used in acupuncture, so it is also called "herb". 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.
The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that with ginger. Generally, 30-50g (a handful) of dried wormwood is boiled in water 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.
Pay attention to soaking your feet with wormwood, drink more warm water, eat less cold food and take a rest. Discomforts such as head, face, throat and chronic bronchitis caused by deficiency heat and excess fire can be relieved to some extent.
People with fever, hypotension and diabetes should soak their feet with wormwood under the guidance of a doctor. And soak your feet with wormwood 2-3 times a week, not too often. Because soaking feet in wormwood will lead to fire, sometimes it will lead to insufficient blood in the head and face, which is easy to cause dizziness, headache and emotional changes.
3, cinnamon swelling
Cinnamon, also known as Cinnamon, Cinnamon or Cinnamon, and Zanthoxylum bungeanum are all commonly used spices in the family, which have the functions of warming kidney and strengthening yang. Soaking feet with them can relieve edema caused by kidney disease.
Nephrogenic edema is edema caused by renal function problems or diseases. Generally, it first occurs in loose tissues, such as eyelids or face, ankles and ankles, and it is most obvious when getting up in the morning. Pressing the skin in the edema area with your fingers can lead to depression. If nephrogenic edema occurs, pepper and cinnamon can be boiled 15g (a handful or a small piece) and then soaked in feet. The cooking method is the same as that of ginger. Continuous foot soaking in this way can play a certain role in reducing swelling.
If the symptoms of edema start from drooping parts of the body (such as legs) and gradually develop to other parts of the body, it may be cardiogenic edema caused by heart function problems. This kind of edema can be soaked in ginger boiling water mentioned above, which can promote blood circulation of lower limbs, thus achieving the purpose of assisting in reducing edema.
4, safflower frostbite prevention
Safflower is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in gynecology, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving 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.
Take 10- 15g (about a handful) of safflower and soak your feet with boiling water as mentioned above, which can prevent and improve chilblain. Every winter, people often have chapped hands and feet, but once this happens, it takes a long time to recover. Choosing to soak your feet with safflower can also prevent this from happening to some extent.
If you soak your feet with 30-50g of dried wormwood and 10- 15g of safflower at the same time, you can improve blood circulation and prevent and alleviate varicose veins and peripheral neuritis.
2, foot bath taboo crowd
1, women in pregnancy and menstrual period, because Chinese herbal foot bath may stimulate women's gonad reflex area, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.
2. People suffering from various serious hemorrhagic diseases, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematochezia, cerebral hemorrhage, gastrorrhagia, uterine bleeding and other visceral bleeding, may cause local tissue bleeding during foot massage.
3, renal failure, heart failure, myocardial infarction, liver necrosis and other critically ill patients, because the condition is very unstable, the stimulation of the foot reflex zone may cause a strong reaction, which complicates the condition.
4. Some patients with acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning and surgical emergencies, such as trauma, fracture, burn, perforation and massive bleeding, may delay the best time for treatment.
5. People who are in great anger, great sorrow, great joy, mental stress and physical fatigue.
6. People who soak their feet before and after meals 1 hour. Due to the expansion of blood vessels in the foot, the blood volume increases during foot bath, and the gastrointestinal and visceral blood decreases, which affects the gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not conducive to digestion; Foot bath immediately after meals will reduce the blood volume of gastrointestinal tract and affect digestion.