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Is foot washing in autumn and winter also a "tonic"?
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. In autumn and winter, people who are good at keeping in good health are busy taking supplements and start eating hot pot, instant-boiled mutton and various supplements. Some people also choose massage health care, and regularly go to the foot washing room to "tonic".

Smelly feet

As the saying goes, washing feet in autumn and winter moistens the lungs and intestines. The climate in autumn and winter is dry and easy to get angry. Foot bath massage is very helpful to adjust balance.

Some people will say that I have beriberi and smelly feet. It doesn't matter how I soak my feet. Am I sick? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that beriberi and foot odor are both caused by damp evil, and the damp evil in the human body must always have a source, otherwise it will all be suppressed in the body, and the channels to relieve damp evil in the human body are scattered through the acupoints taught. The general beriberi can be cured, because it is a normal phenomenon of human body, and beriberi like infectious fungi still needs to be treated.

Sun Simiao once prescribed a special prescription for beriberi, that is, drinking rice congee and rice congee is porridge with bran. This prescription is both economical and affordable, and the effect is still very good. Later, western medical scientists found that vitamin B can be extracted from the bran of grain, which can specifically treat beriberi. From here, we can also see the charm of Chinese medicine and the benefits of coarse grains to our human body.

Many people come home after a day's work and their feet stink as soon as they take off their shoes. These people usually think that foot odor is not a defect, let alone a disease, but a natural "sweaty foot", and even if they insist on washing their feet every day, there will be no change. Actually, it depends. Young people's foot odor is generally not a disease, but an outward metabolism and a strong body. Only able-bodied people can smell foot odor, and elderly people generally don't smell foot odor because their metabolic function is already very weak. There is another situation, that is, foot odor caused by spleen dampness. In this case, as long as the spleen is nursed well, the problem of foot odor will be solved.

Chinese medicine believes that "all wet swelling belongs to the spleen", sweaty feet belong to the category of "dampness", and people with particularly bad feet smell because of spleen enlargement and accumulation of dampness in the spleen. When the spleen is damp and hot, people will sweat yellow and stink, forming "sweaty feet". Some folk cloves are very effective in treating foot odor. For example, grinding oxytetracycline tablets into powder and rubbing them on toes can prevent sweating and foot odor to a certain extent, because oxytetracycline has the effect of convergence and dampness removal.

Choose appropriate drugs in autumn and winter, add warm water after decoction, and then take foot bath, so that the ions of liquid medicine can enter human blood circulation through mucosal absorption and skin penetration under the thermomechanical action of water, and dispel wind and cool down, penetrate bones and muscles, and regulate qi and blood through the thermomechanical action of water and the therapeutic action of fumigation of liquid medicine, thus enhancing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions, improving sleep, eliminating fatigue and eliminating sub-health state.