1. Benefits of soaking feet in salt water
1. Treating beriberi by soaking feet in salt water
This is because salt has a good anti-virus and anti-bacterial effect. When salt is put into hot water, the skin can better absorb the anti-virus and anti-bacterial components of salt water, and the effect of treating beriberi by soaking feet in salt water can be realized.
2. Soaking feet with salt water can clean feet
Because salt has a strong cleaning ability, soaking feet with salt water can clean feet.
3. Soaking feet with salt water can exfoliate
Because salt can exfoliate, soaking feet with salt in hot water can enhance the exfoliation effect by using the heat in hot water.
4. Soaking feet with salt water can tonify kidney and resist aging
Because our feet are farthest from the heart, the blood supply is very small. Soaking feet with salt water can let the effective components of salt water enter the kidney and heart, and promote blood circulation, which has achieved the benefits of tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
5. Soaking feet with salt water can cure colds
Soaking feet with salt water can promote blood circulation and remove the cold of feet, thus achieving the effect of treating colds.
6. Soaking your feet with salt water can help you sleep and resist aging
Washing your feet with salt water often, combined with massaging acupoints such as Yongquan, can promote local blood circulation, help you sleep and resist aging, treat colds, and even enhance your memory and make your mind feel relaxed.
the method of washing feet with salt water is to add half a spoon of salt to half a basin of hot water, and the water temperature can be slightly higher. However, if there is a wound in the foot, washing the feet with salt water should be suspended.
2. Various methods for soaking feet
(1) Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi
Take 5-1g of dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict standard), first boil it with water, then add cold water or soak feet after lowering the temperature. If it is too troublesome, soak the Folium Artemisiae Argyi with some hot water for 2 minutes, and then add water to soak feet.
Several small prescriptions for soaking feet with mugwort leaves:
(1) mugwort and ginger can treat common cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid disease, 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, cold due to excessive internal heat, and swelling of feet and legs.
(4) 2 capsules of wormwood and pepper are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
(2) Soaking feet with vinegar
Selection of vinegar: (1-15g of rice vinegar or mature vinegar)
Function of soaking feet with vinegar:
(1) It can solve the problem of foot odor, kill bacteria 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 rheumatism and improve the symptoms of chills.
(5) Treating sleep disorder.
(6) vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood waste and pathological deposits, and cure many chronic diseases.
(3) soaking feet with almond tea
45g bitter almond and 1g green tea. Put the medicines together in the pot, add 2 ml of water, decoct for 3 minutes, remove the residue and get the juice. Take a small bottle of liquid medicine and apply it to the face and arms. Pour the rest of the liquid medicine into a basin and soak it for 3 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 2 days is a 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 suffering from dysmenorrhea, we can try to stick to soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea.
1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
Its symptoms are abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, with dark menstrual blood and blood clots. People with such symptoms should harmonize qi and blood, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Because women are liver-oriented, the drugs selected for foot soaking are mainly drugs that enter the liver meridian of foot Jueyin, and appropriate amount of vinegar is added, such as 3 grams of green tangerine peel, Lindera root and motherwort, 1 grams of Chuanxiong and safflower. Add about two liters of water and about 5 ml of vinegar, boil it with strong fire, and then decoct it with low fire for 3 minutes. When the medicine is cooled to 5℃, pour the residue into a basin to soak the feet. The amount of liquid medicine in the basin should immerse the ankle joint. If the liquid medicine is insufficient, add a proper 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 3 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. It is necessary to use the principle of warming meridians and dispelling cold to relieve pain. Because there is a saying in Chinese medicine that the kidney governs the whole body yang, the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly those that enter the kidney meridian with insufficient yin, and appropriate amount of saline water should be added, for example, 15g of cinnamon, clove, linderae, angelica and Chuanxiong can be used for foot soaking, 6g of dried ginger, fennel and Evodia rutaecarpa, with a little salt.
3. Qi deficiency and blood deficiency type
Its symptoms are dull pain in the lower abdomen during or after menstruation, and there will be slight pain when you press your abdomen with your hand. The menstrual flow is small and pale, so you need to replenish qi and nourish blood to regulate menstruation. It is called "spleen regulating blood" in Chinese medicine, and the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly drugs that enter the spleen meridian of Taiyin, and appropriate amount of sweet water can be added. For example, 15g of Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Eucommiae Cortex and Radix Astragali can be used for foot soaking, and appropriate amount of caramel can be added.