Zanthoxylum bungeanum is classified as a cold-dispelling drug in traditional Chinese medicine. It can dispel internal cold and support Yang Qi. Therefore, it is good at dispersing yin and cold qi, helping the deficiency of yang and yang, and promoting the movement of qi and water. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the functions of sterilizing, disinfecting, analgesic, relieving itching, and reducing swelling. The following are the benefits of foot soaking with peppercorns that I have compiled for you. I hope it will be useful to everyone.
What are the benefits of foot soaking with peppercorns?
1. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that soaking feet with peppercorn water promotes sleep better than soaking feet with hot water. In fact, the method is very simple. Wrap 50 grams of Sichuan peppercorns in a cotton cloth (10 portions per pound), tie it tightly with a rope, add water to boil, and then soak your feet in the water. Sichuan peppercorn buns can be used over and over again. Just replace them with new ones after using them for about a week.
2. Soaking your feet in Sichuan peppercorns for 10 minutes is the best way to relieve fatigue. The water temperature is generally 40-50 degrees Celsius. It is suitable if the skin of the feet is red and the face is slightly sweaty. It is better for health to soak your feet with 2% concentrated salt water every morning and evening every day, or add a small amount of pepper or mustard to the hot water for foot soaking, which will help improve blood circulation in the feet.
3. Soaking your feet in Sichuan peppercorns can dispel cold. When soaking your feet, you can add some anti-cold medicine, such as Sichuan peppercorns, to the water. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent and warm in nature. It can remove coldness in the internal organs, dredge blood vessels and regulate joints. First grab a handful of Sichuan peppercorns and add them to an appropriate amount of water to fry. When the medicinal effect is fully integrated into the water, pour it into a basin. First smoke your feet, and then use them to soak your feet when the water temperature drops to the point where you can stand. During this process, hot pepper water can be added continuously. It is better to cover the ankles with water. It is better to soak for half an hour until the whole body is slightly sweating.
4. Soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns can prevent influenza. Before his death, Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing, insisted on bathing his feet with pepper water every night, and then using his left and right hands to alternately massage the Yongquan point 100 times for health care. Soaking your feet in pepper water, combined with massage techniques, can clear the meridians throughout the body, smooth blood vessels, regulate human body functions, and achieve the effect of self-care.
5. Soaking your feet in Sichuan peppercorns enhances your immunity. Soak in Sichuan peppercorn soup. Wash your feet before going to bed every night, and then soak them in this soup. It can have a disease-removing effect, and the most obvious one is that it can enhance immunity against influenza viruses or other infectious diseases. In addition, it also has sterilization, disinfection, analgesic, anti-itching, and swelling effects.
6. Soaking your feet in pepper water can prevent foot odor, foot sweat and athlete's foot. Grab a handful of Sichuan peppercorns, wrap them in gauze, put them in a pot and boil the water. Then smoke your feet first and wait until the water is warm enough to soak your feet.
The efficacy of Zanthoxylum bungeanum
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is classified as a cold-dispelling drug in traditional Chinese medicine. It can dispel internal cold and support Yang Qi. Therefore, it is good at dispersing yin and cold qi, helping the deficiency of yang and yang, and promoting the movement of qi and water. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum also has sterilizing, disinfecting, analgesic, anti-itching, and swelling effects. Soaking feet in decoction of Chinese prickly ash can play a role in treating internal diseases and external diseases, because there are reflection areas in human feet corresponding to various organs of the human body. Soaking or massaging these reflection areas with medicinal soup can clear the meridians throughout the body. , blood vessels are smooth, can regulate the functions of various parts of the human body, and achieve the effect of preventing and treating diseases and self-care.
What is the use of foot soaking with pepper?
It has obvious effects on edema of legs and feet and low back pain caused by kidney deficiency; it can also treat long-term diarrhea and chills caused by cold constitution in people with cold constitution. The effect is obvious; it has obvious effect on dry eyes, rib pain, dizziness and toothache caused by liver deficiency and excessive fire; it has obvious effect on abdominal distension, indigestion and indigestion caused by spleen and stomach yang deficiency; because it nourishes the liver and kidneys It also has the functions of clearing water channels, eliminating phlegm, replenishing energy, and strengthening muscles and bones.
In addition, it also has a certain effect on hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, etc. Because some diseases involve multiple aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, such as deficiency of yin and yang, etc., so it cannot only replenish yang, but must also be combined with the condition, Only by taking measures tailored to individual conditions can the fundamental problem be solved.