Health Guide: Do you feel tired and your feet are heavy after a day's work? Move your toes! Chinese medicine believes that toes are connected with viscera, and toes can regulate, relieve dizziness and headache, and enhance memory! How about toes? Here are six ways to keep your toes healthy!

Toes communicate with internal organs.

Chinese medicine believes that every toe of human body is connected with viscera. Lung and large intestine belong to gold, corresponding to big toe; Spleen and stomach belong to soil, corresponding to two toes; Heart and small intestine belong to fire, corresponding to three toes; Liver and gallbladder belong to wood, corresponding to four toes; Kidney and bladder belong to water, corresponding to five toes. Toes are of great significance to human health. Generally, the toes are long and big, the feet are wide and thick, the toes are thin and short, and the feet are narrow and thin. Because the little toe is the origin of the kidney meridian of insufficient yin, the little toe is rich in kidney qi; People with small toes and thin skin have much kidney qi failure.

Toes are located at the end of the human body, far from the heart, and the blood circulation of toes is poor. The change of toe mechanism will be fed back to the corresponding viscera through meridians, resulting in various symptoms. Some people often exercise their toes, which can balance yin and yang in the body. If you pay special attention to your toes, you can take care of them.

How about toes?

You can stand when you move your toes, so that the meridians of your feet are under certain pressure, and your toes can practice grasping and relaxing. Forming elastic alternation of meridians. You can also take a little time every day, practice holding things with two toes and three toes, or consciously move your toes when sitting or lying down, and your gastrointestinal function will gradually increase.

1, showing toe seam.

Your head is heavy after working all day, isn't it? When I got home, I pressed Taichong point and immediately felt refreshed. Taichong point is located on the back of the foot, between the metatarsal joints of the first and second toes. For people with dizziness and headache for a long time, press the toe seam with the thumb, with moderate strength and slight pain, step by step, for about five minutes each time, and drink water properly after pressing, which is helpful to metabolism.

2. Grab the ground with your toes

Take a standing or sitting posture, with your feet flat, close to the ground, shoulder width apart, concentrate on rest, and scratch your toes 60-90 times continuously. You can do this action barefoot or wearing soft flat shoes, and you can repeat it many times a day.

Rub your toes

Rubbing your toes can not only enhance your memory. You can grab the big toe of your foot with both hands and rub it in circles for 2 minutes several times a day. You can also rub your hands in circles on the outside of your little toe. Because memory is related to the cerebellum, and the little toe is the reflection area of the cerebellum, rubbing the little toe helps to enhance memory. Knead for 2 minutes.

Step 4 Grab your toes

When you wash your feet every day, you can put some oval pebbles or other objects in the footbath and practice picking up these pebbles repeatedly with two or three toes while soaking your feet. It is beneficial to soak your feet with warm water. Taking pebbles on your toes can * * * the acupuncture points of the local stomach meridian, and it is of great benefit to keep practicing. In particular, it is necessary to remind diabetic patients that the surface of the selected object must be smooth, so as not to scratch the local skin and induce infection or even (lower limb ischemia).

Step 5 pull your toes

When watching TV or having a rest, you can repeatedly pull your toes up or down, and at the same time cooperate with the inner chamber point between the second and third toes.

6, * * * toes

* * * For patients with indigestion, halitosis and constipation, they should follow the direction of toes to achieve the purpose of purging stomach fire; For patients with diarrhea, cold or aggravated stomachache after eating cold food, this point can be pressed in the direction of toes in turn.

Press your toes for about 15 minutes, which is most convenient before going to bed. For those who lack it, it has a positive effect. In the cold season, it is more meaningful if qi and blood are not running smoothly. In addition, walking has the same effect, because nearly half of people's weight is borne by their toes when walking. Walking will promote the blood circulation and meridian operation of toes and play a certain health care role.

Concentration of calf spleen and stomach

While moving your toes, you can also move your calf once from top to bottom, and the effect will be more obvious. Because there are many acupuncture points of digestive system on the thigh, such as the tube spleen meridian and the foot three yin of the liver meridian on the inner side of the leg, the tube stomach meridian and the foot three yang of the gallbladder meridian on the outer side of the leg, and the spleen can be strengthened three inches below the knee. Pressing these acupoints can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.

It should be noted that you can feel comfortable when you press it, but don't be too full and hungry. Children's spleen and stomach acupoints are different from those of adults, so don't choose this method of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.

Four-legged method to maintain the heart

When people stand, the blood on their feet should return to their hearts from the ground. By what power can we go back to the past? One depends on arterial pressure and the other on normal exercise. There is a "pump" on the soles of our feet, which is medically called a venous pump. When walking, blood is pumped back to the heart through muscle contraction and extrusion. Therefore, the elderly often take a walk, which is very beneficial to promote blood circulation of lower limbs. Feet are closely related to internal organs. Do you pay attention to your feet in daily exercise?

In addition, it is necessary to increase the flexibility of the feet.

1, step on the ground, lift your heels and stand for 5 seconds. Then touch the ground with your toes and touch the ground with your instep for 5 seconds. This is a set of movements, mainly to exercise the flexion and extension ability of foot joints.

2. Put the towel or cloth on the floor and grasp it with your toes, which can exercise the flexibility of your foot muscles. You can also hold 20 glass balls one by one with your toes, and then put them in a box and do them twice a day.

3. Put a cylinder with a diameter of 1 to 1.5 cm between the four toes, then squeeze the toes with your fingers, and then use them. Cylinders can be made of cloth or cardboard.

4. Wrap your toes with a wider rubber band and pull them out.

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