1. Soaking feet with ginger can drive away the cold.
Ginger is a pungent-warming and exterior-relieving drug, which has the effect of dispelling cold and exterior-relieving, and has less toxic and side effects. 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.
2. Add wormwood-soaking your feet can warm your lungs.
Wormwood is warm, bitter and non-toxic. It has the functions of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. It is also commonly used in acupuncture, so it is also called "herb". Soaking feet with wormwood can improve lung function, which is very beneficial to people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white phlegm. Patients with severe cold and dampness can soak their feet with wormwood once a week.
3. Add cinnamon and pepper-soak your feet to relieve edema
Both cinnamon and pepper have the effects of warming kidney and strengthening yang. Soaking feet with them has a good relief effect on edema caused by nephropathy.
4. Add salt water to soak feet, sterilize and deodorize.
Our feet may be covered with that smell because we wear shoes all day, especially those who sweat easily. Soaking feet with salt water can sterilize and deodorize, prevent beriberi and keep the skin of feet smooth and clean.
Add vinegar-soaking your feet helps you sleep.
Adding vinegar to foot bath water can coordinate the excitability of sympathetic nerve and parasympathetic nerve, adjust relaxed and nervous nerves, and harmonize meridian qi and blood, which has a good effect of helping sleep. When the work pressure is high, people who are easily nervous and have a bad sleep may wish to try it.
There is also a secret: if you want to double your health, you should massage the acupoints of your feet moderately after soaking your feet, which is of great benefit to your health.