You can soak your feet all year round: soak your feet in spring and turn on the sun; Soaking feet in summer can dispel the heat; Soak your feet in autumn, moisten your lungs and intestines; Soak your feet in winter, and your abdomen is wet and hot.
Old roots of trees wither first, and old feet rot first. Soaking feet with moxa sticks every day is not only good for relieving fatigue, but also good for sleeping. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the soles of the feet are rich in meridians, and the meridians of the liver, spleen, kidney and corresponding viscera all pass through here. Cold pathogen invades, spreads along the meridian, lungs lose their expression, and cough is born. However, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm, belonging to spleen and kidney meridian, which can warm and disperse cold pathogens and disperse lung qi, so it can cure cough quickly.
Many people know that Ai Rong is good at soaking feet, but I don't know why. This is determined by the special position of the foot. Feet are located at the lowest end of the human body, farthest from the heart, and the blood circulation function is weak. So when qi and blood flow here, the energy is seriously attenuated. In addition, the subcutaneous fat of the foot is less, so the temperature of the foot is generally lower than the normal body temperature, which can explain why many people, especially women, often feel cold at the soles of their feet even if they put on warm clothes or warm water bags. From a health point of view, feet must keep warm and never catch cold, because feet belong to yin and are the weakest part of yang in the body.
Soaking feet with warm water can not only improve the blood circulation of feet, reduce the accumulation of various metabolites in the body, but also help to eliminate fatigue, drive away cold and keep warm; It can also regulate the function of human internal organs by stimulating nerve receptors on the skin of feet. Especially soaking feet with hot water before going to bed can gently stimulate the central nervous system, make the cerebral cortex enter a state of inhibition, and improve the quality of sleep.