1, thrombotic patients
When the feet are soaked in hot water, the arteries of the lower limbs dilate and the skin is congested, and more arterial blood enters the lower limbs, but the reflux ability of the veins will not increase. Therefore, soaking feet in hot water will aggravate blood stasis for patients with venous diseases with poor reflux or obstruction; In addition, soaking feet in hot water can also lead to the rupture of skin capillaries and the formation of bleeding spots. After a long time, pigmentation will form and the color of the calf will turn black; If patients with venous thrombosis are taking anticoagulants, the bleeding will be more serious.
2. Patients with arterial occlusion
Although the manifestation of arterial occlusion of lower limbs is ischemia of lower limbs, soaking feet with hot water can not dilate occluded blood vessels. Of course, the expansion of arteries only increases the blood flow of normal tissues, while ischemic tissues may become more ischemic because of stealing blood. In addition, medical research has concluded that the increase of ambient temperature can increase the oxygen consumption of tissues and aggravate ischemia.
3. Patients with diabetic foot
Diabetic foot can be divided into three types: neuropathy, ischemia and mixed type.
Some neuropathy patients show cold legs and feet. Therefore, hot water soaking feet can easily become a comfortable choice. However, there is something wrong with the sensory feedback mechanism of pain and water temperature in this kind of patients. Too high water temperature will lead to serious burns. The problems faced by patients with ischemic diabetic foot are similar to arterial occlusive disease, but soaking feet in hot water will aggravate ischemia.
4, critically ill patients
In all kinds of critically ill patients with renal failure and heart failure, because of the serious condition and complicated treatment, soaking feet with hot water to stimulate foot reflex may cause strong reaction and complicate the condition, so this kind of people should not soak their feet.
5. Children should not soak their feet often.
Children often soak their feet with hot water, which will have some influence on the nerve and vascular function of their feet. In particular, often soaking feet or scalding feet will lead to the relaxation of children's plantar ligaments, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of arch. In the long run, it will increase the risk of forming flat feet.
6. Old people should be careful when soaking their feet.
Old people should be extra careful when soaking their feet, because the blood will rush to the lower limbs when soaking their feet with hot water, and the old people may feel dizzy because of insufficient blood supply to the brain. Older people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay more attention.
7. the benefits of soaking feet
1, promoting blood circulation
According to the theory of keeping in good health, the foot is farthest from the human heart and bears the heaviest burden. It has been said since ancient times that the second heart of the human body is also the most likely to cause poor blood circulation. It is recorded in medical classics that "a man with feet is still like a tree with roots, and the roots of the tree are exhausted first, and the old feet of the man are old first." For people with cold hands and feet, soaking feet is the best way to promote blood circulation.
2. Stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot.
Pressing the footsteps can also reflect whether there is something wrong with the corresponding liver. When doing pedicure, the masseur will feel pain and soreness when pressing our feet, but after pressing, he will feel relaxed all over. There are six main meridians on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet can stimulate these six meridians and promote blood circulation.
3. Adjuvant treatment of diseases
As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine attached great importance to the exercise and maintenance of the foot, and used foot massage (pedicure) to prevent and treat diseases. There is a folk saying that "the rich take tonic and the poor soak their feet", which shows the great role of soaking their feet. Modern people yearn for air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold food, so some people will feel cold and wet in their bodies. Soaking their feet can accelerate the discharge of cold in their bodies.
4. Improve sleep and eliminate insomnia.
Insisting on soaking feet also has a good effect on improving sleep. Soaking feet in water at 43 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes can reduce lactic acid in the blood. Moreover, the foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries. Soaking the foot with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This warm stimulation is reflected in the cerebral cortex, which plays an inhibitory role, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia. Soaking feet can increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, thus improving heart function, reducing heart load, promoting metabolism, and regulating meridians and qi and blood.
8, foot bath matters needing attention
1, the time should not be too long, and it is best to control it in 15-20 minutes.
Soaking feet for a long time is easy to cause local blood circulation of feet to be too fast for a long time, thus causing cardiovascular overload. And in autumn and winter, if the skin is soaked in hot water for a long time, it is easy to cause the skin to become dry.
2. The water temperature should not be too high.
Soaking feet does not mean that the higher the water temperature, the better. It is best to control the water temperature below 50℃, and it is better to burn it or not. Feel the water temperature with your feet instead of your hands. A certain temperature of water can stimulate acupoints, cure diseases, preserve health and strengthen the body.
9. 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.
10, foot bath taboos need to be known.
1, too full to soak your feet.
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, patients with severe heart disease, hypotension beware of syncope.
It is okay for healthy people to soak their feet or soak in hot springs, but special people, such as people with heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, low blood pressure and frequent dizziness, should not soak their feet 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 must pay attention to the water temperature.
The peripheral nerves of diabetic patients can't sense the outside temperature normally, even if the water temperature is high, and they are easy to burn, which will lead to very serious consequences, so pay attention to the water temperature of soaking feet.
4, beriberi patients should be careful of infection.
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, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn are not easy to soak.
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.
Because children are pure yang, they are prone to fever and fall in love with fire. If you soak your feet in hot water and sweat again, you will get hot. Just wash your feet with warm water every day. After washing, you can gently pinch your feet and relax your muscles.