1, secret recipe of foot bath
Composition: Radix Astragali 30g, Ramulus Cinnamomi10g, Fructus Chaenomelis10g, Flos Carthami10g, Rhizoma Curcumae10g, Xu Changqing15g, Rhizoma Atractylodis15g, and Radix Dipsaci 30g; Efficacy: relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, warming yang and preventing cold; Usage: Wrap the medicinal gauze, put it into the pot together, add water, fry for 40 minutes, pour the medicine into the foot-soaking bucket, keep the water warm, soak for 20 minutes generally, or feel a little sweaty; Indications: Patients with cold dew and peripheral neurotoxic reaction after cancer chemotherapy.
2. The best time to soak your feet
The best time to soak your feet should be around 9 pm. At this time, soaking feet is the most tonifying kidney. Because at this time, the kidney meridian is weak in qi and blood, at this time, after soaking feet and increasing body heat, the blood vessels in the body will expand, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation, thus promoting blood circulation in the body. Soaking feet at night can also eliminate the nervous tension during the day, let the tired kidneys rest, and people will feel more comfortable.
3. What are the benefits of soaking feet?
1, promoting blood circulation
According to the theory of keeping in good health, the foot is farthest from the human heart and bears the heaviest burden. It has been said since ancient times that the second heart of the human body is also the most likely to cause poor blood circulation. It is recorded in medical classics that "a man with feet is still like a tree with roots, and the roots of the tree are exhausted first, and the old feet of the man are old first." For people with cold hands and feet, soaking feet is the best way to promote blood circulation.
2. Stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot.
Pressing the footsteps can also reflect whether there is something wrong with the corresponding liver. When doing pedicure, the masseur will feel pain and soreness when pressing our feet, but after pressing, he will feel relaxed all over. There are six main meridians on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet can stimulate these six meridians and promote blood circulation.
3. Adjuvant treatment of diseases
As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine attached great importance to the exercise and maintenance of the foot, and used foot massage (pedicure) to prevent and treat diseases. There is a folk saying that "the rich take tonic and the poor soak their feet", which shows the great role of soaking their feet. Modern people yearn for air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold food, so some people will feel cold and wet in their bodies. Soaking their feet can accelerate the discharge of cold in their bodies.
4. Improve sleep and eliminate insomnia.
Insisting on soaking feet also has a good effect on improving sleep. Soaking feet in water at 43 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes can reduce lactic acid in the blood. Moreover, the foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries. Soaking the foot with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This warm stimulation is reflected in the cerebral cortex, which plays an inhibitory role, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia. Soaking feet can increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, thus improving heart function, reducing heart load, promoting metabolism, and regulating meridians and qi and blood.
4. Health foot bath method
1, hot water foot bath
Efficacy: Soaking your feet with hot water is good for your health, especially in winter. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "cold starts from the feet". When the weather is cold in winter, the human body is more prone to various discomforts such as cold muscle soreness, cold hands and feet, and cold stomachache. Insisting on soaking feet with hot water can promote blood circulation, dredge meridians, relieve exterior cold, relieve cold hands and feet, dilate capillaries and promote blood supply to the brain.
Practice: Soak your feet with 40℃ to 50℃ water every night 15 minutes. When soaking your feet, don't let the water pass over your feet. When the water is cold, it can heat the water and make people adapt to the temperature slowly. Don't pour too hot water at one time to avoid cryogenic burns.
Note: Soaking feet with hot water before going to bed is especially suitable for cold syndrome, such as always being afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, accompanied by chronic diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, coronary heart disease, dysuria and other diseases.
Step 2 soak your feet in vinegar
Efficacy: Soaking feet with vinegar can regulate meridians, promote blood circulation and help balance yin and yang. Soaking feet with vinegar can accelerate blood circulation, improve hypoxia caused by long-term immobility or fatigue in all parts of the body, enhance metabolism and improve cold hands and feet. Soaking feet with vinegar for a long time can not only improve the quality of sleep, but also improve the strength and resistance of the body.
Practice: Before going to bed every night, pour 2500 ml of hot water at about 60 degrees Celsius into the basin, add 150 ml of vinegar to soak your feet and drown your ankles. Soak for 20 minutes each time.
Note: It should be specially reminded that although soaking feet with vinegar can treat beriberi, you must soak your feet when there is no wound on your feet to avoid bad situation!
3, pepper soaking feet
Efficacy: Zanthoxylum bungeanum is listed as a cold-dispelling medicine in Chinese medicine, which can dispel dampness and cold, support Yang Qi, and invigorate qi and blood circulation. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum also has the functions of sterilization, disinfection, pain relief, itching relief and swelling reduction. Soaking feet with Chili water can play the role of external treatment of internal diseases. Persistence every day can have the effect of eliminating diseases and prolonging life. The most obvious thing is that it can enhance immunity to influenza virus or other infectious diseases.
Practice: Wash with pepper decoction. Wash your feet before going to bed every night and then soak in this soup. When soaking feet, it is best to massage your feet. Even if you don't know the acupoints, you can rub and massage your feet, which can effectively stimulate the acupoints of your feet and play a good role in health care and disease prevention.
Note: it is not advisable to soak the feet with pepper 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.
4. mugwort leaves soak feet
Efficacy: Soaking feet with mugwort leaves has the effect of dispelling cold. Soaking feet with hot water every day can promote blood circulation and get rid of dampness and coldness in the body. Moreover, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can dredge the twelve meridians and regulate Yin and Yang. People with smooth meridians will have smooth qi and blood, and people with healthy qi and blood will naturally have nowhere to live. Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi can effectively dispel deficiency fire and cold fire, and can treat recurrent head and face diseases related to deficiency fire and excess fire, such as oral ulcer, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis and otitis media.
Practice: Take a handful of Folium Artemisiae Argyi and soak your feet in boiling water, or take a quarter of pure Folium Artemisiae Argyi strips, shred them, put them in a foot soaking bucket, brew them in boiling water for a while, and then soak your feet in some warm water until you sweat slightly all over.
Note: while soaking your feet with wormwood leaf water, drink a cup of ginger and red jujube water to dispel cold and avoid diarrhea. As long as there is no obvious fire, only warm water is used to soak your feet every day, not mugwort water.