1, what should I eat to soak my feet?
1, wormwood warms the lungs
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood is a kind of drug with flat nature, bitter taste and no toxicity. It has the functions of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage, and is also commonly used in acupuncture, so it is also called "herb". Soaking feet with wormwood can also improve lung function, which is very beneficial to people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white sputum.
The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that with ginger. Generally, 30-50g (a handful) of dried wormwood is boiled in water to soak feet. The cooking method is the same as above.
2, ginger to dispel cold
Ginger is a pungent and warm medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the function of dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, and has little 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 can soak their feet with ginger.
It should be noted that soaking feet with ginger does not mean soaking ginger in hot water for a while. Generally, take15-30g of ginger (about half a slice of ginger with the same size), pat it flat, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot, and cook it 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.
Many of the medicinal ingredients in ginger are small molecular substances, which can be avoided by covering the pot and cooking. The amount of half a slice of ginger is the amount of water in the basin used by ordinary families to soak their feet If the amount of water used for soaking feet is large, or the symptoms of being afraid of cold are serious, the amount of ginger can be appropriately increased. 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.
3, safflower frostbite prevention
Safflower is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in gynecology, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. People who are prone to chilblain and chapped skin in winter, using safflower to soak their feet in early autumn can play a very good preventive role.
Take 10- 15g (about a handful) of safflower and soak your feet with boiling water as mentioned above, which can prevent and improve chilblain. Every winter, people often have chapped hands and feet, but once this happens, it takes a long time to recover. Choosing to soak your feet with safflower can also prevent this from happening to some extent.
If you soak your feet with 30-50g of dried wormwood and 10- 15g of safflower at the same time, you can improve blood circulation and prevent and alleviate varicose veins and peripheral neuritis.
If the blood circulation is not good, the hands and feet are prone to numbness at ordinary times, or there is congestion in the lower limbs, you can use these two herbs to soak your feet together. Soaking feet can not only improve blood circulation, but also improve sleep quality to some extent. Soaking feet with safflower and wormwood can also play a certain therapeutic role when catching a cold.
2. Other methods of soaking feet
(1) mugwort leaves soak feet.
Take 50- 100g of dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict standard), first add water to boil, then add cold water or soak feet after the temperature is lowered. If it's too much trouble, soak the mugwort leaves in some hot water for 20 minutes and then add water to soak your feet.
A few small prescriptions for mugwort soaking feet:
(1) wormwood and ginger can treat colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid diseases, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
(2) wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.
(3) Adding salt to wormwood is suitable for upper energizer with fire, which often leads to jealousy, toothache, sore throat, irritability, catching a cold due to excessive internal heat, and edema of legs and feet.
(4) 20 capsules of Chinese prickly ash are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
(2) Soak your feet with vinegar
Selection of vinegar: (rice vinegar or aged vinegar100-150g)
The role of vinegar soaking feet:
(1) can solve the problem of foot odor. Soaking feet with vinegar can sterilize and treat beriberi to some extent.
(2) It can relieve fatigue.
(3) It can moisturize skin, soften cutin and increase skin elasticity.
(4) It can dispel wind and dampness and improve the symptoms of chills.
(5) Treating sleep disorders.
(6) Vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood garbage and pathological deposits, and cure many chronic diseases.
(3) almond tea soaking feet
Bitter almond 45g, green tea 10g. Put the above medicines together in a pot, add 2000 ml of water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove residues and get juice. Apply 1 vial to face and arms, pour the rest into a basin, and soak for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 20 days is 1 course of treatment. It can moisten skin, diminish inflammation and sterilize, supplement vitamins and minerals, and prevent and treat skin chlorosis, blackness and roughness, acne and scabies.
(4) Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine
For women with dysmenorrhea, we can try to stick to traditional Chinese medicine to soak feet to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea.
1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
Its symptoms are abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, dark menstrual blood with blood clots. People with such symptoms should reconcile qi and blood, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Because women mainly live in the liver, the drugs chosen for foot bath are mainly drugs with foot-jueyin entering the liver meridian, and appropriate amount of menstrual vinegar is added, such as 30g of Green Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, 30g of Linderae Radix, 30g of Motherwort, Chuanxiong 10g, and safflower 10g. Add about two liters of water and about 50 ml of 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. The amount of medicine in the basin should be immersed in the ankle joint. If the liquid medicine is insufficient, add appropriate amount of warm water. The feet keep moving in the medicine, so that the soles of the feet receive slight physical stimulation from the dregs for more than 30 minutes at a time.
2. Yang deficiency and cold excess type
Its symptoms are cold pain in the lower abdomen, less pain in hot compress and chills in hands and feet. The principle of warming channels and dispelling cold should be used to relieve pain. Because there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that the kidney governs the whole body yang, the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly those with insufficient yin entering the kidney meridian, and appropriate amount of salt water should be added, such as cinnamon, clove, linderae, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong each 15g, dried ginger, fennel and Evodia rutaecarpa each 6g, and a little salt can be decocted.
3. Deficiency of qi and blood
Its symptom is a dull pain in the lower abdomen during or after menstruation, and there will be slight pain when pressing the abdomen with your hand. The menstrual flow is small and pale, so it is necessary to replenish qi, nourish blood and regulate menstruation. Traditional Chinese medicine is called "spleen regulating blood", and the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly drugs that enter the Taiyin spleen meridian, and appropriate amount of sweet water can be added. For example, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Eucommiae Cortex, and Radix Astragali 15g can be used for foot bath, and appropriate amount of maltose and boiled water can be added.