First, how to soak your feet for health every day
1. Soak your feet with ginger
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a pungent and warm medicine, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, and has less 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 soak their feet with ginger, which can play a role in dispelling cold. Soaking feet with ginger is not just soaking ginger in hot water for a while, but flattening15-30g ginger, adding half a pot of water into the pot, covering the pot, and boiling 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. 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.
Soak your feet in cinnamon
Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, cinnamon or cinnamon, can relieve edema caused by kidney disease by soaking feet with it. 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 you have nephrogenic edema, you can soak your feet with15g pepper and cinnamon respectively. Continuous foot soaking in this way can play a certain role in reducing swelling.
3. Red flowers soak feet
Adding safflower is suitable for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. For patients with poor blood circulation, numbness of limbs, cyanosis, traumatic injury, varicose veins, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dark or massive blood color, phlebitis, arteritis, thrombosis, etc., 50 grams of safflower can be put into the pot for five times, and then boiled for five minutes, and can be soaked 1-2 times a day.
4. mugwort leaves soak feet
Folium Artemisiae Argyi is suitable for cough, asthma and respiratory diseases. Such as bronchitis, bronchitis, emphysema and pulmonary heart disease. Put 15g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi into a pot and boil it in water for five minutes.
Second, matters needing attention in soaking feet
1, the water temperature should not be too high
(1) In life, some people are used to soaking their feet in very hot water, thinking that the higher the water temperature, the better. In fact, the foot bath water should not be too hot, and about 40℃ is appropriate. If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels in both feet are prone to over-expansion, and more blood in the human body flows to the lower limbs, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury to patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
(2) If the water temperature is too high, it is easy to destroy the sebum membrane on the skin surface of the foot, making the cuticle dry or even chapped.
2, the time should not be too long
(1) It is best not to soak your feet for more than half an hour at a time, because soaking your feet will speed up blood circulation and heart rate, and too long will increase the burden on your heart.
Because blood will rush to the lower limbs, some people will feel dizzy because of insufficient blood supply to the brain, especially patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly.
3. Be sure to test the temperature by hand.
When soaking feet, when you are not sure about the temperature of water, it is recommended to try with your hands instead of your feet, because your hands are more sensitive to temperature than your feet. For patients with diabetic foot, measure the temperature with a thermometer when washing feet to avoid scalding.
4, with massage soles
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. After soaking feet, you can also massage the reflex areas related to the soles of your feet, such as chronic prostatitis or prostatic hyperplasia, and massage the reflex areas of prostate and urethra.
5, patients with fever should not be.
For patients with fever, it is not suitable for soaking feet, such as high fever, bleeding, hot mouth and dry tongue. It should be noted that some people are not sensitive to temperature, or suffer from diabetes and varicose veins of lower limbs. Therefore, we should pay special attention to the water temperature, because such patients are prone to complex peripheral neuropathy, and peripheral nerves cannot normally perceive the external temperature. Even if the water temperature is very high, they will feel late and pure, and they will be easily burned.