Principle of soaking feet in traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath uses hot water to promote the penetration of drugs into the human body, which can not only ensure that drugs penetrate into the meridians of the whole body through the feet, but also avoid adverse reactions caused by excessive oral drugs. Fumigation with traditional Chinese medicine is one of the external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine. It can dilate the capillaries of the feet with the help of water vapor, so that the effective components of traditional Chinese medicine can be fully circulated to the meridians of the whole body through the capillaries, and then run to the five internal organs along the meridians, thus achieving the functions of external treatment of internal diseases and treatment of upper diseases.
The benefits of soaking feet
In the process of soaking feet, you can massage yourself by hand, so that the medicine can better stimulate the acupoints and reflex areas of the feet, thus dredging the meridians, improving blood circulation, promoting metabolism, regulating the nervous system, improving sleep, preventing and treating various vascular diseases, preventing and treating diabetes, regulating blood lipid and blood pressure, and preventing and treating rheumatoid arthritis in middle-aged and elderly people. At the same time, it is also a good way to keep fit and lose weight.
The most common method of soaking feet is 1, and soaking feet with ginger.
Feet are cold and afraid of cold. Use a piece of ginger (as big as a jujube) to pat it flat with a knife. Take a piece of safflower wrapped in gauze and put it in water to boil. Add a spoonful of salt to soak your feet.
2. Red flowers soak feet
Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, the drugstore bought one or two safflower, divided into 10. Take a part, wrap it in gauze and put it in water to boil. Then add a spoonful of salt, smoke your feet first and then soak them, which can cure back pain (the water for soaking your feet must not pass through the ankle bone).
3. mugwort leaves soak feet
Can be used for treating respiratory diseases and wind-cold. The drugstore buys one or two mugwort leaves and divides them into five parts. Wrap one fifth of Folium Artemisiae Argyi in gauze, put it in a pot and add water to boil. Smoke your feet first, then soak them. When the water temperature is 40℃ to 50℃, put your feet in water and soak them with safflower and mugwort leaves to cure cold feet and backache.
4. Soak your feet with Chili water
Can prevent foot odor, sweaty feet and beriberi. Grab a handful of pepper, wrap it in gauze, put it in a pot, boil it with water, smoke your feet first, and then soak your feet when the water temperature is enough.
5, vinegar soaking feet
Putting one or two spoonfuls of vinegar in foot bath water can cure dry heels and soften heel spurs.
Foot bath taboo
Varicose veins, arterial dilatation, venous thrombosis, diabetic foot, if you soak your feet with hot water, it is likely to accelerate vasodilation and even aggravate the condition.