Foot health care is most suitable for sub-healthy people, especially middle-aged and elderly people with yang deficiency constitution and white-collar workers who lack physical exercise. Through the warm action, mechanical action, chemical action of water and the therapeutic action of medicinal steam and liquid medicine fumigation, it can dredge meridians, regulate qi and promote blood circulation, relax tendons and activate collaterals, so as to achieve a series of health care functions such as promoting blood circulation, improving sleep, eliminating fatigue, eliminating sub-health state, enhancing human immunity and preventing certain diseases.
The foot is farthest from the heart, but all the internal organs of the human body have corresponding reflex zones in the foot. The distribution of plantar reflex zone is to reduce the projection of the whole human body and reflect it to the foot, which is a regional reflection of the whole body. When the internal organs of the human body are diseased, the corresponding reflex zone of the foot will be tender, which is the pathological reflex zone. If the reflex zone of the foot is adjusted regularly and correctly, the bad condition of the body can be improved.
If the elderly and women have cold hands and feet, Yongquan point on the sole can promote blood circulation and warm their feet; Regular arthritis and old cold legs, knee joint reflex zone, can relieve knee pain; Old constipation, often according to the gastrointestinal reflex zone of the foot, makes the meridians conduct, opens the stagnation of the meridians, and improves the constipation problem. But this does not exaggerate the efficacy of pedicure, so pedicure can protect health, but it can't cure diseases.
Foot massage is not suitable for people.
1. Women during pregnancy and menstrual period. Because traditional Chinese medicine foot bath may * * * to the female gonad reflex zone, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.
Second, people suffering from various serious hemorrhagic diseases. Such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematochezia, cerebral hemorrhage, gastrorrhagia, uterine bleeding and other visceral bleeding. It may lead to bleeding in local tissues during plantar surgery.
Three, renal failure, heart failure, myocardial infarction, liver necrosis and other critically ill patients. Because the condition is very unstable, the * * on the reflex zone of the foot may cause a strong reaction and complicate the condition.
Four, some acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning, surgical emergency patients, such as trauma, fracture, burn, perforation, bleeding, etc. Because it may delay the best time for treatment.
5. People who are in great anger, great sorrow, great joy, mental stress and physical fatigue.
6. People before and after eating 1 hour. Due to the expansion of blood vessels in the foot, the blood volume increases during foot bath, and the gastrointestinal and visceral blood decreases, which affects the gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not conducive to digestion; Foot bath immediately after meals will reduce the blood volume of gastrointestinal tract and affect digestion.
Seven, foot trauma, blisters, scabies, inflammation, suppuration, ulcers, edema and severe varicose veins.
Matters needing attention in pedicure health care
1, don't soak your feet before and after meals.
When soaking feet, don't be too full, too hungry or eat, because foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, which is prone to dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
2, special people soak their feet for a long time and cause syncope.
It is no problem for healthy people to soak their feet 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. Because soaking feet in hot water or soaking in hot springs will dilate blood vessels, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will inevitably lead to ischemia and hypoxia in important organs such as the heart and brain. For people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase the risk of illness.
3. Diabetic patients should pay attention to water temperature.
Diabetic patients should pay special attention to the level of water temperature, because the peripheral nerves of these patients can't sense the external temperature normally, even if the water temperature is very high, and they are easy to be burned, which will lead to very serious consequences.
4, beriberi, foot trauma patients
People with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water when their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, facial diseases, trauma or facial burns are not easy to soak feet.
5. Old people should not soak their feet for too long.
Old people who soak their feet for too long will have symptoms such as sweating and palpitation. Therefore, it is better for the elderly to soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day.
6. There is no need for babies to soak their feet.
Children are "the body of pure yang", prone to fever and love fire. If you soak your feet in hot water and sweat again, you will get hot. Especially for infants, the feeling of temperature is different from that of adults. Adults think the water temperature is a little hot, which is already very hot for children. But they are not very expressive, and it is easy to burn tender panels. From this point of view, it is not recommended to soak your feet with hot water. Just wash your feet with warm water every day. After washing, you can gently pinch your feet and relax your muscles.