It is the habit of many people to soak their feet with hot water. This lifestyle can indeed bring many benefits to the human body, and there are also many places to pay attention to. So what should we put to soak our feet in hot water? What is good for soaking feet in hot water? Soaking feet with hot water can add something to hot water, and the effect of soaking feet will be better. Let's take a closer look at the specific content.

1, soaking feet with salt water

Every time you soak your feet with hot water, add a small amount of salt, which can play a role in sterilization and disinfection. Soaking feet with salt water can improve foot inflammation caused by beriberi, foot odor and fungi. It should be noted that if there is a wound on your feet, it is recommended not to soak your feet with salt water.

Step 2 soak your feet in vinegar

Adding proper amount of vinegar to foot bath water can play an anti-inflammatory and bactericidal role. Soaking feet with vinegar for a long time can improve foot inflammation, foot odor and beriberi. At the same time, it can also remove dampness and detoxify, which is very beneficial to the body.

Step 3 soak your feet with milk

Soaking feet with milk can nourish and moisturize foot skin, prevent and improve chapped and dry foot skin, and make skin white, tender and delicate. In addition to soaking feet with milk, you can also use goat milk, which also has a good moisturizing effect.

4, ginger soaking feet

After washing ginger, put it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water to decoct it, and soak your feet with juice, which can promote blood circulation, raise your body temperature and play a role in driving away cold and keeping warm. It is especially suitable for autumn and winter, and can eliminate dampness, promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and prevent chilblain.

Step 5 soak your feet in pepper water

Boiling Zanthoxylum bungeanum with proper amount of water until its fragrance overflows, air drying and foot soaking can soften hardness, remove blood stasis, soften the callus of feet, relieve foot diseases caused by blood stasis, and have the effects of beautifying and moistening feet.

6, Chinese herbal medicine foot bath

Soaking feet with Chinese herbal medicines such as dandelion, mint, mugwort leaf and Acorus gramineus has a good health preserving effect. Dandelion can improve eczema, relieve skin inflammation and joint discomfort; Peppermint can warm meridians, dispel cold, dispel wind and relieve itching; Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of eliminating dampness, stopping bleeding and promoting blood circulation. You can choose the appropriate Chinese herbal medicine to soak your feet according to your own needs.

7. Soak your feet with flowers

Pouring petals into water or soaking feet directly also has a good health care effect. There are many flowers that can be used to soak feet, such as roses, peony, peony, lotus, jasmine and so on. Roses can rejuvenate the skin, and jasmine can refresh the mind. You can choose the right flowers to soak your feet according to your own needs.

8. Foot bath method

(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.