Places to pay attention to when soaking feet:

The foot soaking time should not be too long, 15-30 minutes is appropriate. When soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should temporarily stop soaking their feet and have a rest if they feel chest tightness and dizziness. Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so their families should try the water temperature first to prevent burns.

It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal. It will affect the blood supply to your stomach, which will lead to malnutrition in the long run. . After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water immediately after eating, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead, which will affect digestion and absorption for a long time and lead to nutritional deficiency. Therefore, it is best to soak your feet for half an hour after meals.

It is best to use a wooden basin for soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine. The chemical composition in metal pots such as copper pots is unstable, and it is easy to react with tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine to produce harmful substances such as iron tannic acid, which greatly reduces the curative effect of drugs.

Children should not soak their feet in overheated water for a long time. Because the arch of the foot began to form in childhood, we should pay attention to protection from an early age. If you often wash your feet with hot water, the ligaments on the soles of your feet will become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch, and it is easy to form flat feet.

Women should not soak their feet with traditional Chinese medicine during menstruation. The problem of women's menstrual period is more complicated. If you can't find the reason, soaking your feet with traditional Chinese medicine can not only relieve it, but also aggravate the symptoms such as dysmenorrhea. Therefore, if women want to treat menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea by soaking their feet with traditional Chinese medicine, it is best to consult a doctor and prescribe medicine according to their own situation.

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Foot bath is foot bath, which belongs to one of the contents of pedicure in traditional Chinese medicine and is also a commonly used external treatment. Soaking your feet with hot water can not only relieve fatigue, but also help you sleep. At the same time, adding traditional Chinese medicine to water can also play other roles.

Soaking feet with hot water can improve local blood circulation, dispel cold, promote metabolism, and finally achieve the purpose of health care. Soaking feet with proper Chinese medicine also has a certain effect on beriberi.

Soaking feet with hot water alone can accelerate blood circulation, promote qi and blood circulation, detoxify, improve the metabolism of the body, and also have a good health care effect.

Chinese medicine foot bath, that is, soaking feet with boiled Chinese medicine, is similar to ordinary foot bath, but because Chinese medicine foot bath is equipped with prescription for soaking feet for some diseases, it can treat some diseases in a targeted manner.

Soak your feet with mugwort leaves. Take dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi 50- 100g (depending on water quantity, there is no strict standard). Boil it with water first, and then add cold water or soak your feet after the temperature drops. Can be used for treating common cold due to wind-cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid arthritis, varicose veins and peripheral neuritis, and is suitable for patients with upper energizer fire, constant jealousy, toothache and sore throat.

Soaking feet with vinegar can solve the problem of foot odor, kill bacteria, treat beriberi to some extent, moisten skin, soften cutin and increase skin elasticity.

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