Why is soaking feet comfortable?
Let me talk about the knowledge of blood vessels in lower limbs first.
The blood in the artery starts from the heart and goes down to the legs and feet. It is rich in nutrition and oxygen. After blood passes through capillaries, it brings metabolites (garbage) back to the heart through venous blood.
Blood vessels are distributed on the legs like branches, all over the muscles and skin.
If the artery dilates, the blood flow of nourishing artery will increase; If the vein dilates, the venous blood carrying garbage will stagnate.
When soaking feet, the local temperature will rise, leading to arterial dilation, especially skin blood vessels-the saying of "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis" generally comes from this.
In my vascular clinic, I often meet patients with vascular diseases who suffer from foot soaking.
Don't blame the patients and their families, because patients with lower limb blood vessels often feel cold in their lower limbs and naturally think of soaking their feet with hot water.
Then why did it backfire?
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The patient's "disaster"
Hot foot bath is harmful to patients with varicose veins and venous thrombosis.
What kind of process is this?
When soaking feet in hot water, the arteries of lower limbs dilate, especially the skin is congested, and more arterial blood enters the lower limbs;
However, the venous reflux capacity will not increase;
Therefore, for patients with venous diseases with poor reflux or obstruction, soaking feet with hot water will aggravate blood stasis.
In addition, hot water soaking feet can also cause capillary rupture and form bleeding spots on the skin;
After a long time, pigmentation will form and the color of the calf will turn black;
If patients with venous thrombosis are taking anticoagulants, the bleeding will be more serious.
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Make arterial occlusion and ischemia "worse"
Although the manifestation of arterial occlusion of lower limbs is ischemia of lower limbs, it is a pity that hot water soaking feet can not dilate occluded blood vessels.
Of course, the dilation of patency arteries only increases the blood flow of normal tissues, while ischemic tissues may become more ischemic because of the phenomenon of "stealing blood". In addition, medical research has concluded that the increase of ambient temperature can increase the oxygen consumption of tissues and aggravate ischemia.
This is also the reason why patients with arterial occlusion adopt the following treatment principles:
Choose anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs instead of vasodilators.
Although the ischemic leg is cold, it must be forbidden to use infrared hyperthermia with heating effect.
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Let diabetic foot patients face amputation
Diabetes can be divided into three types: neuropathy, ischemia and mixed type.
Some patients with neuropathy can show extreme cold in their legs and feet, and they are afraid of cold. Therefore, soaking feet in hot water can easily become a comfortable choice. Sadly, once neuropathy exists, the patient's sensory feedback mechanism for pain and water temperature will fail.
Therefore, patients often keep boiling water, even if they are severely burned, they are unaware of it.
The problems faced by patients with ischemic diabetic foot are similar to the above-mentioned "arterial occlusion".
So, if you have lower extremity arterial occlusive disease, diabetic foot, soaking your feet in high temperature will lead to amputation!
Knowing these truths, I suggest you know whether you have the above vascular diseases before soaking your feet. If not, you can rest assured to enjoy it.
If this article can be seen by the staff of foot bath shop, so much the better. Because not long ago, I met a mixed diabetic foot patient who accelerated foot necrosis after soaking his feet in a foot bath shop.
There is a folk saying: hot water soaks feet, ginseng eats, the rich take tonic, and the poor soak feet. This statement has scientific basis.
The best time to soak your feet is 9 pm. At this time, due to the weakness of qi and blood in the kidney meridian, the blood vessels in the body will expand after soaking feet to increase body heat, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation, thus promoting blood circulation in the body. At the same time, the nerves that have been nervous for a day and the kidneys that have been tired for a day can also be completely relaxed and fully regulated.
Healthy people can soak in hot springs, but special people should pay attention. For example, patients with heart disease and cardiac insufficiency, people with low blood pressure and frequent dizziness should not soak their feet with too hot water or soak in hot springs for a long time.
Eight secrets of soaking feet in traditional Chinese medicine to eliminate cold and diseases
1. energy
Ginger foot bath: a slice of ginger, safflower 1g, and appropriate amount of salt. Flatten ginger or slice it with a knife, wrap safflower in gauze, boil it in water, and soak your feet with a spoonful of salt. Used for cold hands and feet.
2, safflower
Safflower foot bath: safflower 1g, a little salt. Boil safflower water, add a spoonful of salt, smoke it and soak your feet. It can promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis and treat low back pain.
3. Artemisia argyi
Folium Artemisiae Argyi Foot Bath: dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi 50- 100g. Boiling Folium Artemisiae Argyi with water, cooling, adding cold water or soaking feet; Or soak Folium Artemisiae Argyi in hot water for 20 minutes, and then heat to soak feet. Artemisia argyi plus ginger can treat common cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid disease, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma; Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Flos Carthami can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis; Folium Artemisiae Argyi and 20 Zanthoxylum bungeanum are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
4. Angelica sinensis
Longan foot bath: 40g angelica and 25g longan meat. Boil Angelica sinensis and longan in water for 40 minutes, remove the residue to get juice, and pour it into a basin with 2500 ml of boiling water. First smoke and wash your face, then soak your feet once a day for 30 minutes. But beauty is beauty, and skin is beauty.
5. codonopsis pilosula
Foot bath of Codonopsis pilosula and Atractylodes macrocephala: Codonopsis pilosula 15g, Astragalus membranaceus 20g, Atractylodes macrocephala 15g. Boil the three herbs in water, pour them into a foot bath and soak their feet for 30 minutes once a day. Tonifying qi deficiency.
6. winter melon skin
Soaking feet with wax gourd skin: 200g of wax gourd skin, 0/00g of poria cocos/kloc, and 0/00g of papaya/kloc. After the slag is boiled, soak your feet in the foot bath for 30-40 minutes at a time until you sweat slightly. Once a day, 20-30 days is a course of treatment. Lose weight.
7.xanthium sibiricum
Flos Magnoliae foot bath: 20g of Flos Magnoliae, 20g of Fructus Xanthii, 0g of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae15g, 0g of Radix Platycodi10g, Rhizoma Cimicifugae10g, 60g of Mume, 0g of Herba Menthae10g, and 0g of Asari10g. Add several herbs to water, boil and soak your feet. Dredge nasal orifices and improve nasal congestion and runny nose.