Modern scientific research shows that people's feet have reflex zones (acupoints) corresponding to various zang-fu organs. Stimulating these reflex zones can promote human blood circulation, regulate endocrine system, enhance the function of human organs, and achieve the self-care effect of preventing and treating diseases. There is an old saying in China: "Chinese medicine is not as good as tonic." If you soak your feet for 15 minutes every day, it can play a health care role. If you soak your feet in hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, your headache will be obviously relieved after about 15 ~ 20 minutes. This is because the blood vessels in both feet dilate and blood flows from head to foot, which can relatively reduce brain congestion and thus relieve headaches. For the headache caused by cold and fever, soaking feet with hot water can also help reduce the fever. If you can massage Yongquan point while soaking your feet and press Taichong point on the back of your big toe, it will also help lower your blood pressure. Moreover, the application of traditional Chinese medicine foot bath is very extensive, including rheumatism, spleen and stomach diseases, insomnia, headache, cold, paraplegia, brain injury, stroke, lumbar disc herniation, nephropathy, diabetes and other systemic diseases, as well as rehabilitation after a serious illness. Therefore, insisting on scientific pedicure, especially for alleviating all kinds of occupational diseases that modern urbanites are prone to, can often get twice the result with half the effort.
Benefits of soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine
First, promote blood circulation. The foot has been considered as the second heart of the human body since ancient times. According to the health theory, the feet are farthest from the human heart and bear the heaviest burden. So this place is most likely to cause poor blood circulation. According to medical records, "a man with feet is still like a tree with roots. The roots are exhausted first, and the old feet are old first." Especially for people who often feel cold hands and feet, soaking feet is an excellent method.
Second, stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot. Many people have had pedicures. As soon as the masseur presses our feet, they will feel pain and swelling. This situation can basically explain that there is something wrong with our corresponding visceral reflex zone. Therefore, when we finish the foot massage, we will feel relaxed all over. At the same time, there are six main meridians on people's feet, including the end points of three yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian and gallbladder meridian) and the beginning points of three yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian and kidney meridian), all of which are on the feet. So soaking feet is equivalent to stimulating these six meridians.
Third, it has a good auxiliary effect on the treatment of many diseases. It is often said that "the rich take tonic, while the poor soak their feet". It can be seen that soaking feet plays a great role. Especially in modern society, the extensive use of air conditioners and people's general love of cold food make their bodies cold and wet. By soaking your feet, you can accelerate the discharge of cold in your body.
Many people who have soaked their feet have this experience. When they soak their feet, their knees will feel very cold, indicating that the cold and dampness in their bodies are being forced out of their bodies by hot water and traditional Chinese medicine. So if you catch a cold, sometimes you don't need to take medicine, soak your feet and sweat. There are many people with high blood pressure. If they soak their feet for a long time, the blood circulation at the ends of human limbs will be improved. As a result, blood pressure dropped slowly. In short, if you understand the truth and do it yourself, the benefits of soaking your feet are only clear to you.
So what is a good foot? It is good to soak in your back and feel a little damp, or sweat on your forehead. Be careful not to sweat. Because sweat is the liquid of the heart. Sweating too much will make you sad. As long as you sweat a little, you will be fine, which means that your meridians are connected from top to bottom. This is also a way to prove whether your meridians are open or not.
The special formula of foot bath for heel pain is introduced as follows:
1, "Liuwei Shijia Health Foot Soaking Formula" includes: Angelica sinensis 15g, Carthamus tinctorius, Sappan, Eupatorium adenophorum, Radix Rehmanniae and Ramulus Cinnamomi 10g.
Angelica sinensis in the prescription is known as the "blood-nourishing medicine", which is sweet, pungent and warm in nature and belongs to liver, heart and spleen meridians. It has the effects of enriching blood, regulating menstruation, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, and relaxing bowels, and is mainly used for treating blood deficiency and blood stasis, abdominal pain due to deficiency of cold, traumatic injury, arthralgia due to wind-cold and constipation due to blood deficiency. Safflower, an essential blood-activating drug for health care, is pungent and warm, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. The other two blood-activating drugs, hematoxylin and Eupatorium adenophorum, have a good auxiliary effect. Sappan is sweet, salty, pungent and flat, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation and healing, removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals. Eupatorium adenophorum is bitter and pungent, slightly warm, enters the liver and spleen meridians, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis, eliminating carbuncle, diuresis and detumescence. Heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs are sweet, bitter and cold, enter the heart, liver and kidney meridians, and have the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. Guizhi, a wind-cold medicine, is pungent, sweet and warm, enters the heart, lungs and bladder meridians, and has the effects of sweating and resolving muscles, warming meridians and dredging collaterals, and helping yang to transform qi.
"Six Flavors Family Health Care Foot Soaking Formula" has the functions of accelerating blood circulation, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, promoting blood circulation and eliminating fatigue, which can make people relaxed and happy, and achieve the purposes of health care, improving quality of life and reducing diseases.
2, cold and cold: angelica 15g, safflower, sappan, lycopi, radix rehmanniae 10g, asarum 6g.
Asari's efficacy: dispelling wind and cold, promoting blood circulation and inducing resuscitation. Treat wind-cold headache, sinusitis, toothache, expectorant cough and rheumatic joint pain.
3. Rheumatalgia: angelica 15g, safflower, sappan wood, Eupatorium adenophorum, lycopodium clavatum and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi.
Efficacy of Lycopodium: dispelling wind and cold, removing dampness and swelling, relaxing muscles and activating blood. Treat arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, arthralgia, skin numbness, limb weakness, edema and traumatic injury. Efficacy of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi: purging excess fire, removing damp heat, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Can be used for treating excessive heat, polydipsia, cough due to lung heat, dysentery due to damp heat, jaundice, hot stranguria, vomiting, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, conjunctival congestion, fetal movement disorder, carbuncle and furuncle.
4. Hypertension: 40 grams of Uncaria, 30 grams of Prunella vulgaris, 20 grams of mulberry leaves and 20 grams of chrysanthemum.
The effect of Uncaria rhynchophylla: clearing away heat and calming the liver, calming the wind and calming the nerves. Treat infantile convulsion, adult hypertension, dizziness, and eclampsia in women. Efficacy of Prunella vulgaris: clearing liver and dispersing stagnation. It can be used for treating scrofula, carbuncle, mammary abscess, breast cancer, nocturia, tears, dizziness, facial distortion, bone and muscle pain, tuberculosis, acute icteric infectious hepatitis, bloody collapse, and leukorrhagia. The effect of mulberry leaves: dispelling wind and clearing heat, cooling blood and improving eyesight. Treat wind, fever, headache, red eyes, thirst, cough due to lung heat, wind arthralgia, dermatitis and elephantiasis of lower limbs. The effect of chrysanthemum: expelling wind, clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. Treat headache, dizziness, red eyes, heart heat, furuncle and toxic swelling.
5, insomnia: 60 grams of magnet, 20 grams of chrysanthemum, 0/5 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi/kloc, 30 grams of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.
The effect of the magnet: subduing yang to absorb qi and calming the nerves. Treat dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, fatigue, epilepsy and palpitation. The effect of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb: nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, dredging collaterals and expelling wind. Treat insomnia, strain, hyperhidrosis, blood deficiency, body pain, carbuncle, scrofula, wind sore and scabies.
6, hot salt water bubble
(1) can prevent beriberi: soaking feet with salt water often can not only sterilize and prevent beriberi, but also make feet smooth and tidy.
(2) It is helpful for sleep and anti-aging: often soaking feet with salt water, combined with acupoint massage such as Yongquan, can promote local blood circulation and help sleep and anti-aging.
(3) It can prevent colds: when the soles of the feet are cold and hot, the local temperature of the upper respiratory tract drops, and the resistance is weakened and enhanced due to reflection. Therefore, there is a saying that "it is advisable to wash your face with cold water, brush your teeth with warm water and wash your feet with hot water". Often washing feet with salt water and massaging Yongquan points can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and resist aging, make your feet smooth and tidy, prevent colds, and even enhance your memory and make your mind feel relaxed. It is best to submerge the calf. "The calf is the second heart of the human body" can greatly promote the blood circulation of the human body with better effect. Add a teaspoon of salt and 50 ~ 70g of ginger to hot water and soak your feet for about half an hour. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salt has the functions of clearing fire, cooling blood and detoxifying, while ginger has the functions of dispelling cold, stopping vomiting and detoxifying, which has a good therapeutic effect on colds, coughs, fullness and sore throat. Generally, it can be effective to do it twice in the early stage of a cold.