1, health foot bath method
1, hot water foot bath
Efficacy: Soaking your feet with hot water is good for your health, especially in winter. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "cold starts from the feet". When the weather is cold in winter, the human body is more prone to various discomforts such as cold muscle soreness, cold hands and feet, and cold stomachache. Insisting on soaking feet with hot water can promote blood circulation, dredge meridians, relieve exterior cold, relieve cold hands and feet, dilate capillaries and promote blood supply to the brain.
Practice: Soak your feet with 40℃ to 50℃ water every night 15 minutes. When soaking your feet, don't let the water pass over your feet. When the water is cold, it can heat the water and make people adapt to the temperature slowly. Don't pour too hot water at one time to avoid cryogenic burns.
Note: Soaking feet with hot water before going to bed is especially suitable for cold syndrome, such as always being afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, accompanied by chronic diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, coronary heart disease, dysuria and other diseases.
Step 2 soak your feet in vinegar
Efficacy: Soaking feet with vinegar can regulate meridians, promote blood circulation and help balance yin and yang. Soaking feet with vinegar can accelerate blood circulation, improve hypoxia caused by long-term immobility or fatigue in all parts of the body, enhance metabolism and improve cold hands and feet. Soaking feet with vinegar for a long time can not only improve the quality of sleep, but also improve the strength and resistance of the body.
Practice: Before going to bed every night, pour 2500 ml of hot water at about 60 degrees Celsius into the basin, add 150 ml of vinegar to soak your feet and drown your ankles. Soak for 20 minutes each time.
Note: It should be specially reminded that although soaking feet with vinegar can treat beriberi, you must soak your feet when there is no wound on your feet to avoid bad situation!
3, pepper soaking feet
Efficacy: Zanthoxylum bungeanum is listed as a cold-dispelling medicine in Chinese medicine, which can dispel dampness and cold, support Yang Qi, and invigorate qi and blood circulation. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum also has the functions of sterilization, disinfection, pain relief, itching relief and swelling reduction. Soaking feet with Chili water can play the role of external treatment of internal diseases. Persistence every day can have the effect of eliminating diseases and prolonging life. The most obvious thing is that it can enhance immunity to influenza virus or other infectious diseases.
Practice: Wash with pepper decoction. Wash your feet before going to bed every night and then soak in this soup. When soaking feet, it is best to massage your feet. Even if you don't know the acupoints, you can rub and massage your feet, which can effectively stimulate the acupoints of your feet and play a good role in health care and disease prevention.
Note: it is not advisable to soak the feet with pepper for a long time. If you feel that the original symptoms have disappeared, you should stop for a few days and come back when the symptoms are insufficient. Otherwise, there may be phenomena such as "insufficient breath" and "incompatibility between water and fire" mentioned in ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine.
4. mugwort leaves soak feet
Efficacy: Soaking feet with mugwort leaves has the effect of dispelling cold. Soaking feet with hot water every day can promote blood circulation and get rid of dampness and coldness in the body. Moreover, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can dredge the twelve meridians and regulate Yin and Yang. People with smooth meridians will have smooth qi and blood, and people with healthy qi and blood will naturally have nowhere to live. Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi can effectively dispel deficiency fire and cold fire, and can treat recurrent head and face diseases related to deficiency fire and excess fire, such as oral ulcer, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis and otitis media.
Practice: Take a handful of Folium Artemisiae Argyi and soak your feet in boiling water, or take a quarter of pure Folium Artemisiae Argyi strips, shred them, put them in a foot soaking bucket, brew them in boiling water for a while, and then soak your feet in some warm water until you sweat slightly all over.
Note: while soaking your feet with wormwood leaf water, drink a cup of ginger and red jujube water to dispel cold and avoid diarrhea. As long as there is no obvious fire, only warm water is used to soak your feet every day, not mugwort water.
2, winter health tips
1, add enough water.
Although sweating and urination decrease in winter, cells in all parts of the body still need water to nourish them to ensure normal metabolism. How much water is appropriate to drink every day in winter? Generally, 2000-3000 ml is enough.
2, drink porridge conditioning
Avoid sticking cold food in winter. Nutrition experts advocate drinking hot porridge in the morning and dieting and nourishing the stomach at dinner. Especially mutton porridge, glutinous rice, red dates, lily porridge, eight-treasure porridge, millet, milk and rock sugar porridge are the most suitable.
3, foot protection and warmth
As the saying goes, "Cold starts from the feet". As we all know, the foot is rich in nerves, which is the intersection of the three Yin San Yang meridians. Cold feet can cause colds, arthritis and even low back and leg pain through nerve reflex. Therefore, wash your shoes and socks frequently in winter, and soak your feet with warm water for 20-30 minutes every night. If you can use some script biotechnology Chinese medicine foot bath powder, you can get twice the result with half the effort.
4. Exercise properly and sweat.
It is cloudy in winter, and the key to health preservation is to prevent the invasion of exogenous cold pathogens into the body. "Keeping out the cold" is necessary, but keeping out the cold does not mean raising the temperature of the air conditioner, nor does it mean that the more you wear, the warmer you get. Wearing too much will affect the metabolism and blood circulation of the human body, and sweating too much will make you more discouraged. Therefore, when exercising, it is necessary to combine motion and static, and all exercises can only be slightly sweaty.
5, eat more warm, eat less cold.
Health preservation in winter should be supplemented by household fitness equipment. Traditional health-preserving science divides food into three categories: cold, winter health-preserving knowledge and slippery. In winter, the climate is cold. In order to keep warm, people should eat more warm health knowledge and eat less cold food. Warm foods include health knowledge, sorghum rice, chestnuts, jujubes, walnuts, almonds, leeks, parsley, pumpkins, ginger, onions and garlic.
Step 6 get enough sleep
Go to bed early and get up late in winter. Generally 8-9 hours of sleep, the elderly can appropriately increase, such as lack of sleep at night, can insist on taking a nap 1 hour; But sleep should not be too much. Pay attention to cold and warmth when sleeping, to avoid the cold wind, causing colds and respiratory diseases. Avoid falling asleep with your head covered and open a small transom for ventilation.
7. Eat healthily
Su Wen's Theory of Six Jie's Dirty Images says: "Heaven eats people with five flavors, and the earth eats people with five flavors." People's blind subjective laws can't be inconsistent with objective laws. When you want to eat, your body is lacking, so you should eat. The idea of "eat well in the morning, eat well at noon and eat less at night" does not apply to everyone. The frequency and quantity of diet should be determined according to different people's living habits and work conditions.
8, pay attention to cold and warm.
The temperature changes greatly in the morning and evening in winter, so don't be greedy for cold. When the temperature is low at night, cover the bedding to avoid catching cold. Clothes should not be too thick during the day, so don't catch cold. Proper wearing less and proper freezing are beneficial to improve the body's ability to keep out the cold. Pay attention to warm clothes in winter, keep warm indoors to prevent cold invasion, and pay special attention to keep feet warm; But avoid sudden warming and over-baking. Pay attention to the cold and warmth of hands, feet, head and face when going out to prevent frostbite.
How to soak your feet in winter? Bian Xiao in the article has compiled several recipes suitable for soaking feet in winter. In addition, if you want to have a healthier winter, it is certainly helpful to know some common sense about winter health.
3, Chinese medicine foot bath needs attention.
1, time
The foot soaking time should not be too long, and the appropriate time is 15-2030 minutes. 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.
2. Pay attention to the hygiene and cleanliness in the soaking bucket.
If the foot bath tub is not thoroughly cleaned or the tub wall is not treated with anti-bacteria, the bacteria on the feet can easily remain in the tub wall, causing repeated foot infections, so it is very important to choose a good foot bath tub.
It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal.
It will affect the blood supply to the 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.