1. Prepare a suitable barrel.
Prepare a big and deep bucket, the water level can soak more than half of the calf. You can't put your feet obliquely because the bucket is small, so that your feet can be placed at the bottom of the bucket smoothly and comfortably to avoid cramps.
2. The best time to soak your feet
Foot bath time should be 1 hour before and after meals, so as not to affect appetite or digestion. The soaking time is about 30 minutes. If the water is cold, you can heat the water 1~2 times in the middle, and drink a glass of water before and after soaking, which is beneficial to metabolism and body fluid supplement.
3. Common methods of soaking feet
Soaking feet with salt water: add 2 spoonfuls of salt to warm water, which has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects. Soaking feet with salt water can prevent beriberi and colds. Massage Yongquan point on the soles of feet when soaking feet, which is helpful for salivary sleep.
Soak your feet with rice wine: adding a bottle of rice wine to warm water or using other alcohol can promote blood circulation. If you soak your feet with tea, you can also get rid of foot odor.
Soaking feet with vinegar: Soaking feet with rice vinegar or aged vinegar 100g can kill bacteria, treat beriberi to some extent, dispel rheumatism and improve cold symptoms. In addition, vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove blood garbage and pathological deposits, and cure some chronic diseases.
Soaking feet with ginger: Soaking feet with 100g ginger, 20g dried tangerine peel and 30g mint can warm the spleen and stomach, eliminate dampness, relieve drowsiness and prevent varicose veins of lower limbs.
Lemon soaking feet: adding two slices of lemon in warm water can prevent colds, refresh the brain, soften the stratum corneum and reduce swelling.
4, Chinese medicine foot bath prescription
It is best to soak your feet with Chinese medicine under the guidance of a doctor. Here are some formulas to recommend:
(1) Improve foot eczema
Take Sophora flavescens, Rhizoma Atractylodis, Fructus Cnidii 15g, alum 5g and rhubarb 10g, and soak your feet to relieve itching, soften cutin and improve foot eczema caused by hot and humid weather.
(2) Improve dysmenorrhea caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Use 30 grams of Lindera root, 30 grams of green tangerine peel, 30 grams of wormwood, 0/0g of Chuanxiong rhizome/kloc, and 0/0g of safflower/kloc. Add about two liters of water and 50 ml of Zuo's vinegar, boil it with strong fire, and fry it with low fire for 30 minutes. When the medicine is cooled to 50℃, pour the residue into a basin to soak feet.
5, foot bath matters needing attention
Soaking feet is good for most people, but it is dangerous for some people. The following people should pay attention.
Patients with frozen feet: After the feet are frozen, the temperature of the feet is lower than the normal tolerance of the body. If your feet are suddenly scalded by hot water, your skin and muscles can't stand the change of temperature difference, thus causing secondary damage to your feet.
Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: high water temperature dilates capillaries, increases blood flow, and increases the burden on the heart and blood vessels in a short time.
Diabetic patients with pain: diabetic patients are prone to peripheral neuropathy, which makes peripheral nerves unable to sense the external temperature normally. In addition, high water temperature is easy to cause foot infection.
6, foot bath taboo
1, the foot bath water temperature should not be too high.
Too high water temperature is not only bad for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but also easy to destroy the sebum membrane on the surface of foot skin, making the stratum corneum dry and even chapped.
The water temperature of foot bath water should be 40℃-45℃. You can try the water temperature by hand first. To be safe, you can measure it with a thermometer.
2, foot bath time should not be too long.
It is best not to soak your feet for more than half an hour at a time, because people's blood circulation and heart rate will accelerate when soaking their feet, and soaking their feet for too long will increase the burden on the heart. In particular, the elderly should pay attention to the fact that the elderly are weak and soak their feet for too long, which will cause symptoms such as sweating and palpitation, and easily induce some diseases. Therefore, it is recommended that the elderly should not soak their feet for more than 20 minutes.
3. It is not advisable to soak your feet when you are too full or hungry.
Soaking feet will speed up the blood circulation of the body. Eating too much and soaking feet will affect the digestion of the stomach. If you soak your feet when you are too hungry, it will lead to dizziness and other discomfort.
4, heart disease and low blood pressure, be careful to soak your feet.
These two types of patients should pay special attention to controlling the time and water temperature when soaking their feet, because after soaking their feet with hot water, the blood vessels of the body dilate and the whole body blood flows from important organs to the body surface, which is easy to make important organs such as the heart and brain ischemic and anoxic, which is easy to increase the risk of illness.