This article is divided into three pieces of content, the first introduction to the basic principles of Chinese medicine, which is why ginger and foot soak play a role in the reason, and then introduce the role of ginger and the specific use of the last introduction of foot soak is important and related questions and answers.
For thousands of years, the root of Chinese medicine to treat and prevent diseases is to replenish qi and blood, through the meridians. Just as massage, massage, moxibustion is based on the ancient invention of the meridian theory, food therapy is based on the ancients for us to summarize the properties of various types of food, efficacy, desirability and contraindication.
First of all, qi and blood, Chinese medicine believes that the standard of a person's health is sufficient qi and blood. The human organ is like a person, eat enough, do up the work to have strength. The blood is the "rice" of the organs.
When the various organs of the body can eat a big bowl full of dry rice every day, the energy is full, the work is done well. When the body's total blood volume is not enough, that is, to the organs to reduce the amount of rice, although they are still running, but because they do not eat, it is easy to fatigue, weakness, resistance to decline, there is what is often referred to as "sub-healthy" state. For a long time, the organs due to insufficient blood supply, a variety of diseases will come to the body.
For example, the brain does not eat enough, light dizziness, memory loss, heavy cerebral ischemia, cerebral infarction, a long time, the brain began to become "thin", cerebral atrophy, Alzheimer's disease also began to occur.
What is gas? "The blood is the mother of the qi, and the qi is the commander of the blood. The explanation of qi in Chinese medicine is as follows: qi is composed of the essence of the innate, the essence of water and grains, and the inhalation of the clear air of nature. Qi has a strong vitality and is constantly in motion. Chinese medicine explains life activities in terms of the movement of Qi. The main function of the gas is to promote, warm, defense, solid and gasification, that is, to promote the blood, fluid generation and operation, to promote the role of various physiological activities of the internal organs and tissues.
The expression of water in our body is blood, which nourishes our whole body, when the temperature is lowered, the blood flow slows down, there is stagnation, stagnation, when the temperature is further lowered, the blood will be solidified, the person will face death. The driving force that enables the blood to flow is the temperature, which keeps the blood circulating throughout our body, maintaining the physiological activity of the organs and allowing life to be secured.
The innate essence is actually represented by the "kidney", which is the root of the innate essence. The kidneys are the yang of the body, like a fire in the body, warming and illuminating the whole body. The reason why the child is called "pure yang body", is because the kidney qi enough, kidney qi enough means that the fire is strong, metabolism is strong, always in a state of growth, development, and the old man's kidney qi decline, body temperature is low, not enough fire, circulation and metabolism will be slowed down, the body gradually weakened. As the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" said, "Yang qi, if the sky and the sun, lost its place, then folded life and do not shine", which means: "Yang qi is like the sun in the sky, giving nature to the light and warmth, if you lose it, everything will not survive. If the human body does not have Yang Qi, the body will lose the vigor of metabolism, a darkness, so that life will have to stop."
To replenish qi is to replenish the kidneys, to warm the kidneys, to keep warm, to remove the cold , sufficient qi and blood is that the amount of blood in the body is sufficient, the quality is good, the kidney qi is sufficient, the basal body temperature is high, the organs function normally, the metabolism is strong, and the blood flow is smooth; qi and blood are deficient is that the amount of blood in the body is less, the quality is bad, the kidney qi is weak, the basal body temperature is low, the organs are low, the metabolism is slow, and the blood flow is not running well. Therefore, the purpose of replenishing qi is to keep the body at the right temperature, plus zong qi, which is the fresh air that one inhales in nature. In this way people can stand freshly between heaven and earth.
After saying "replenish qi and blood", then talk about "through the meridians". Meridian is the body's natural medicine library, and to control this heavenly treasure, only need to understand the operation of the 12 meridians is enough, this is the whole Chinese medicine meridian doctrine elements (as for the specific which is the 12 meridians, interested in Chinese medicine to find their own). There are more than 300 points on the 12 meridians, so we don't need to memorize them all. In Chinese medicine, there is a saying when massaging the meridians that "pain is Yu", which means that the area of pain is the acupoint to be massaged. For example, if you know that you suffer from heart disease, you can press slowly along the meridians of the corresponding heart meridian and pericardium meridian to feel the sensation of the entire meridian. If there is a place of soreness, some ground force tingling, some places numbness, some places sour, swelling, then you massage focus on the most painful parts, the lesion kneading, kneading, or even cupping, moxibustion, tapping can be, the more obvious pain, the more you must insist on stimulating this place, so that your body's disease will soon have a change for the better. If just rote memorization of all the points, but ignored the most painful point, the cure will never be good.
The method of ginger to get rid of diseases and health care has a long history. As early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius has the habit of not leaving ginger all year round, in the "Analects? The township party" in: "not withdraw ginger food, not much food" said. Zhu Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty in the "Analects of Confucius" said: "Ginger can pass the gods and go to the dirty and evil, help not withdraw." In the earliest surviving Chinese medicine monograph "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" also about ginger records: "dry ginger, taste pungent and warm, the main chest chest full, coughing up gas, warming the blood, sweating, expel wind; warm spleen, intestines and dysentery." Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also respected the wonderful use of ginger: "ginger, pungent and not labor, can be vegetables, and can be fruit, can be medicine." Ginger boiled soup also has a nickname "soul soup". In Su Dongpo's "miscellaneous evidence" has also been recorded, Qiantang Jingci Temple monk, more than eighty years old, the color as a child, asked him why, "said he served ginger for forty years, so not old clouds. (Color like a child ah! Love of beauty sister, do not act up?) Folk also have "three pieces of ginger, without prescription", "winter ginger, not afraid of the wind and frost", "winter eat radish summer ginger, do not need a doctor to prescribe". "Ginger is a good way to keep your family healthy and not to panic when you are sick," he said. Ginger temperature, its unique "ginger" can stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, so that the stomach, intestinal congestion, digestive ability to enhance the effective treatment of eating too much cold food caused by abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and so on.
After eating ginger, people will have a feeling of body heat, this is because it can make the blood vessels expand, blood circulation to speed up, prompting the body's pores open, so not only can the excess heat band away, but also the body's germs, cold together with the out. Therefore, when the body ate cold things, by the rain, or in the air-conditioned room after a long time, eat ginger will be able to eliminate the cold in a timely manner, to eliminate the muscle cold weight caused by a variety of discomfort.
Here are some common diseases to introduce the different uses of ginger:
Cold and flu: 3 to 4 slices of ginger with half a spoonful of brown sugar boiled water to drink, 2 to 3 times a day.
Colds with cough: 3 to 4 slices of ginger, 7 to 8 cloves of garlic and half a spoonful of brown sugar cooked together, 2 to 3 times a day.
Cold and flu with fever: add 1 large onion in ginger and brown sugar water 2 to 3 times a day.
Bloating after eating food: you can directly mouth ginger slices, or drink ginger water, a moment can be relieved.
Cold-induced diarrhea: use boiling ginger water to punch eggs, 2 to 3 times a day, soon, diarrhea stops and then drink a day to consolidate the effect, warm the stomach and intestines.
The air-conditioned room after staying a long time caused by tightness, hair swelling: at any time the mouth ginger tablets or every day in the 2 to 3 pieces of ginger bubble water to drink, the body's discomfort immediately eliminated.
Mouth ulcers, periodontitis, bad breath, itchy throat: oral ginger or boil ginger water to drink can be cured, as long as you do not eat cold food, will not recur.
Sore throat: add a little salt to hot ginger water and drink it as tea.
Vomiting during pregnancy: a piece of ginger in the mouth often can cure and prevent it.
Pediatric vomiting: use 1 to 2 slices of ginger to boil water and drink it before breastfeeding.
Indigestion, loss of appetite: ginger and jujube (sliced) together with boiled water to drink, 2 times a day, can be appetizing.
Joint pain: every morning after getting up to eat a few slices of ginger or boil ginger and jujube water to drink, 3 times a day to insist on eating can significantly ease the pain of the joints.
Menstrual cramps: add 2-3 grains of hawthorn in ginger and brown sugar water, 2-3 times a day.
Drinking headache, dizziness: available ginger boiled water to drink, immediately relieve.
Frostbite has been born on the hands and feet, but not broken: ginger can be used to boil water to soak hands and feet.
Prickly heat: use ginger slice external rub, prickly heat will soon be back, adults and children are available.
Dandruff, hair loss: often wash your head with warm ginger water, the effect is good to try.
Fox odor: use ginger to rub a few times a day, can significantly reduce the odor.
In addition, ginger has the function of detoxification. If you accidentally eat poisonous Qin, mild tongue numbness, nausea, vomiting, the best way is to hurry to chew ginger, even eat a few slices, afraid of spicy people will cut a few more slices of ginger boiled water to drink, to drink a few times until the symptoms completely disappear; the heavy will cause confusion, coma, in the hospital rescue, and so on the condition of the stabilization of the patient after the patient to drink ginger water, so that the poisonous substances can be more quickly driven away.
Middle-aged men are prone to hypertension, is due to the body cold and damp heavy, meridian stasis caused by the blockage. You can add ginger to the water in the nightly foot bath, which helps to remove the cold and lower blood pressure. At the same time, ginger is a product of the sun, since ancient times, Chinese medicine has been "men can not be a hundred days without ginger" said, commonly used ginger foot soak can go cold and not fire, and lower pressure, kidney, and at the same time, can treat men's prostatitis and other diseases.
The only shortcoming of ginger is that often eat will cause liver fire, so in general, hepatitis patients are avoided to eat, dry mouth, constipation, hemorrhoids patients should also eat less.
Restrain eating ginger caused by liver fire, you can at the same time with some of the Shu liver, Qi Qi food, such as hawthorn, chrysanthemum, use them to make tea to drink, so you can eliminate the ginger caused by the hot and dry and does not hurt the body.
Foot massage is very popular now. It does treat a lot of diseases, because the foot is the root of the person, the effect of dredging and dredging on the root is of course the best. But you have thought about it the other way around? Massage the soles of the feet as we have a stove, the stove piled up a lot of coals, stuffed too solid, the fire is not easy to burn, burn through. As long as the bottom of the stove a poke, so that there is a slight gap, loose, the entire stove fire will "Teng" lit up. But the stove has burned very strong, you are still repeatedly barrel the bottom of the stove, can only be a large number of consumption of coal, waste of energy, and a long time, the rack is too empty, the stove fire has no bottom, the burning speed will be slowed down, and there is a danger of extinguishing .
Foot massage and stab the bottom of the stove is a reason. Many people in the beginning to do, feel the effect is very obvious, is because it is indeed very effective to dredge the meridians. But a long time, people are easy to fatigue, especially in winter, is the season of storage energy, if you are still doing foot massage, but also in the bottom of the stove, a lot of energy consumption of their own, it can be imagined, the body will be weaker and weaker.
So, foot massage is a very good health care method, as long as the correct use, is able to help you get rid of the disease fitness, can be used too diligently, regardless of the season, regardless of the physique at any time, the effect is often counterproductive. Winter as much as possible do not do or less do foot Mo. If you have to do, half a month is enough. Do foot massage at the same time, blood, kidney diet must follow. Weak body is best to do less, if you want to do, do not do a full foot massage, as long as the body appears to be in discomfort, choose one or two reflex zones, symptomatic massage can be, and massage time is not too long, a few minutes on the line.
Foot massage can not be done every day, but hot water foot soak is the best every day. Every night with hot water soaking feet, you can give a day of labor to all organs to send the most real care, at the same time, soak your feet after people will sleep well, and can improve the body's immunity. Now the convenience of bathing so that many people never alone soak feet, and bathing and bathing so that the whole body skin vasodilatation, blood flow to the limbs, viscera and brain is prone to symptoms of ischemia, so overworked, weak into the bathing and bathing easy to Peach dizziness, panic, fatigue and other symptoms.
To soak your feet with a higher bucket to soak, through the heat to relax the feet and calves at the meridians, so that the blood circulation is accelerated, improve the blood supply of the heart and brain and other organs, and with the increasing heat, it will be slightly sweaty, you can unclog the meridians, discharging the body's cold and waste, regulating the body temperature, lowering the virtual fire. In addition the improvement of blood circulation, blood pressure has a very obvious two-way regulation. So it is recommended that friends after a busy day, must spend half an hour to the body relaxation, regulation. Do not underestimate this half an hour, as long as every day to adhere to, only foot soak this health care method can make you live 10 years.
Soak your feet with a bucket to soak, wooden barrels, although the insulation effect is good, but too heavy and too expensive, inconvenient to use, you can go to the supermarket to buy some high plastic barrels instead of, while soaking while heating the water. Now there are a lot of electric footbath, if you can do some high, like a bucket as deep, that's better.
People generally choose to soak their feet before going to bed, so that one is convenient, and the other is conducive to sleep. But if you have enough time, especially the elderly, you can soak your feet in the afternoon around 4 to 5 o'clock, that is, the bladder meridian and kidney meridian qi and blood is the most vigorous time, when the effect of tonifying the kidney is the best.
Each time you soak your feet generally to soak to the whole body heat, there is a slight sweat, even if it is a good soak, soak your feet to drink more water, timely replenishment of water. It is best to drink warm water or ginger brown sugar water while soaking your feet, so that the body's internal production of heat, through sweating to let the cold and damp out of the body in a timely manner.
Most of the children's foot baths are used in winter or cold and flu, cold and flu to soak up sweat until.
Depending on the specific degree of heat tolerance of each person, the temperature can be lower at the beginning of the bubble, and then slowly add hot water, increasing the temperature, soak until the whole body heat.
People who insist on soaking their feet for years don't have this problem, only those who start soaking their feet will have this situation, the reason is that the body is still cold and wet. As long as you insist on soaking your feet, slowly drain away the cold dampness in the body, it will be easy to sweat.
Some people soak their feet for a long time will appear chest tightness, dizziness phenomenon, is due to the high temperature of the water, easy to make the feet vascular overexpansion, the human body's blood flow to the lower extremities, so that the heart, the brain, the kidneys and other important organs of the blood supply is insufficient. People in this situation are basically patients with two deficiencies of qi and blood, such people not only soak their feet will cause discomfort, wash gymnastics will cause more discomfort. Because there is less blood in the body, the blood runs to the feet more, the main organs are lack of blood. When I meet this kind of patients, I will tell them to soak their feet for less time, and at the same time pay attention to the dietary therapy, eat more food that replenish the blood and the kidneys, to change the situation of lack of blood fundamentally. The patient listened to my instructions, in the increase in nutrition at the same time with the foot bath, adhere to half a month to a month down, and then the foot bath will not appear chest tightness, dizziness phenomenon, and then slowly increase the time and temperature of the foot bath, soak to the whole body slightly sweating when it is possible.
It is best not to add anything to the water in the foot soak, because the role of heat, foot soak with drugs is easily absorbed. Cold in the body can be added when the weight of moxa leaves together with the bubble, but can not be added every day, plus 1 to 2 times a week, moxa leaves plus a small handful can be. Remember, never in the foot bath water often add salt, that will hurt the kidneys, easy to cause generalized swelling, in my patients have been a lot of health care newspaper to see some of the recommended after the use of salt water foot bath caused by generalized swelling, endocrine disorders and the original aggravation of kidney disease.
People with severe foot odor can add vinegar to the water in the foot bath, which can sterilize and stop itching.
Can adhere to the long years with warm water foot soak has been a very good health care method, don't always think of adding a variety of traditional Chinese medicine, such as not suitable for your body's condition, but will be counterproductive.
In the foot soak in the barrel covered with pebbles, while soaking, while stepping stone massage, the effect is naturally good, but only limited to young people, the elderly and patients are not suitable.
The elderly and the sick in the foot soak, because their bodies are mainly two deficiencies of gas and blood, the more the role of heat under the role of massage feet, the more you can draw blood down, and in the ears, head, arms massage can be the blood upward, improve the usual inaccessible cardiovascular and cerebral vessels, to promote its blood circulation.
People with bad cervical vertebrae, it is best to soak your feet at the same time and your hands together, which is good for the treatment of cervical spondylosis.
When the foot soak to the body when the heat, ride the heat of the cervical spine, shoulders, waist and back activities, people will feel very relaxed, comfortable, then go to bed, must be able to sleep especially comfortable, long-lasting body immunity, resistance will be slowly restored or even strengthened.