Soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns can remove moisture and promote blood circulation, which is very beneficial to your health. So can soaking your feet with peppercorns help you lose weight? Can foot soaking with peppercorns cure athlete’s foot?

Can soaking your feet in Sichuan peppercorns help you lose weight?

Soaking your feet in Sichuan peppercorns can help you lose weight. Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the effects of warming the meridians, dispersing cold, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns can help promote blood circulation in your feet, remove cold evil from the body, accelerate metabolism and the discharge of toxins, and achieve the purpose of losing weight. Soaking your feet with peppercorn water every night can eliminate fatigue, relieve stress, improve immunity, prevent colds and colds, promote sleep and improve sleep quality, and prevent and treat venous thrombosis in the lower limbs. Soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns can also sterilize, disinfect, relieve pain, and has a significant effect in treating and preventing athlete's foot.

Can foot soaking with Sichuan peppercorns cure athlete’s foot?

Using Sichuan peppercorns water when soaking your feet has a certain sterilizing and deodorizing effect, and it also has a certain killing effect on fungi on the epidermis of patients with athlete’s foot. However, It has little effect on killing fungi deep in the skin, so it is not very effective in treating athlete's foot. While using Zanthoxylum bungeanum to soak your feet, you can also use topical ointments to treat athlete's foot, such as Dixonine ointment, sertaconazole nitrate ointment, etc. Tinea pedis is not easy to be completely cured and must be treated for a long time. Only by completely killing the deep-seated fungus can it be cured. Shoes and socks worn on daily basis should be exposed to the sun and disinfected.

Is foot soaking with peppercorns useful for colds?

Clinically, from the perspective of Western medicine, there is no scientific basis for soaking feet with peppercorns for colds. It is definitely ineffective. The treatment of colds is general. It depends on whether it is a common cold or influenza. There are no special antiviral drugs for the common cold. Because the common cold is self-limiting, that is, it can get better without treatment and with symptomatic treatment, so the treatment is mainly symptomatic. There are certain antiviral drugs for influenza, such as the currently commonly used oseltamivir, which can be effectively treated, but it must be used early, and the effect is better when taken within 48 hours of the initial cold. At the same time, other drugs should be used for symptomatic treatment. . Other treatments include strengthening resistance, paying attention to rest, drinking more water, and enhancing nutrition. Generally, most patients will have no problem if the body's resistance is improved.

Can Zanthoxylum bungeanum treat chilblain?

Clinically, Zanthoxylum bungeanum can be used as an auxiliary treatment for chilblain, but simply using Zanthoxylum bungeanum to treat chilblain has limited efficacy. The way to use Zanthoxylum bungeanum to treat chilblains is to soak the Zanthoxylum bungeanum in water, and then use the Zanthoxylum bungeanum to wash your feet, soak your feet, and wash your hands. Because using hot water and spicy-flavored medicines such as Sichuan peppercorns can significantly increase blood circulation. However, this effect works slowly, and this method is not recommended for patients with existing skin damage, because it may increase the patient's risk of infection. Therefore, it can be used by patients with chilblains who want to prevent chilblains or who have no skin damage.