1, foot bath secret recipe
Composition: Radix Astragali 30g, Ramulus Cinnamomi10g, Fructus Chaenomelis10g, Flos Carthami10g, Rhizoma Curcumae10g, Xu Changqing15g, Rhizoma Atractylodis15g, and Radix Dipsaci 30g; Efficacy: relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, warming yang and preventing cold; Usage: Wrap the medicine in gauze, put it into the pot together, add water, decoct for 40 minutes, pour the medicine into the foot-soaking bucket, keep the water temperature warm, generally soak for 20 minutes, or feel a little sweat on your body; Indications: Patients with cold dew and peripheral neurotoxic reaction after cancer chemotherapy.
2. The best time to soak your feet
The best time to soak your feet should be around 9 o'clock in the evening. At this time, soaking your feet is the most tonifying kidney. Because at this time, the qi and blood of the kidney meridian are weak, soaking feet at this time, after the body heat increases, the blood vessels in the body will expand, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation, thus promoting blood circulation in the body. Soaking feet at night can also eliminate the tension of nerves during the day, so that tired kidneys can rest and people will feel more comfortable.
3. What are the benefits of soaking feet?
1, promote blood circulation
According to the theory of keeping in good health, the foot is the farthest from the heart of the human body, and the burden is the heaviest. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the second heart of the human body is also the most likely to lead to poor blood circulation. It is recorded in medical classics that "a man with feet is still like a tree with roots, and the dead roots of the tree are exhausted first, and the old feet of the man are old first." For people with cold hands and feet, soaking feet is the best way to promote blood circulation.
2. Stimulate acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot.
Pressing the footsteps can also reflect whether there is something wrong with the corresponding liver. When doing pedicure, the masseur will feel pain and soreness when pressing our feet, but after pressing, he will feel relaxed all over. There are six main meridians on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet can stimulate these six meridians and promote blood circulation.
3. Adjuvant treatment of diseases
As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine attached great importance to the exercise and maintenance of feet, and used foot bath massage (pedicure) to prevent and treat diseases. There is a folk saying that "the rich take tonic and the poor soak their feet", which shows the great role of soaking their feet. Modern people look forward to being in air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold food, so some people will feel cold and wet in their bodies, and soaking their feet can accelerate the discharge of cold in their bodies.
4. Improve sleep and eliminate insomnia.
Insisting on soaking feet also has a good effect on improving sleep. Soaking your feet in water at 43 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes can reduce lactic acid in your blood. Moreover, the foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries, and soaking feet with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This warm stimulus is reflected to the cerebral cortex, which plays an inhibitory role, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia. Soaking feet can increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, thus improving heart function, reducing heart load, promoting metabolism, and regulating meridians and qi and blood.
4. Method of keeping in good health and soaking feet
1, hot water to soak feet
Efficacy: Soaking your feet with hot water is good for your health, especially in winter. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "cold comes from the foot". 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 the circulation of qi and blood, dredge meridians, relieve exterior cold, relieve cold hands and feet, dilate capillaries and promote blood supply to the brain.
Practice: Soak your feet with water at 40℃ to 50℃ every night 15 minutes. When soaking feet, the water should not cross the foot surface. When the water is cold, hot water can be added, so that people can adapt to the temperature slowly. Too hot water should not be poured 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.
2. Soak your feet with vinegar
Efficacy: Soak your feet with vinegar frequently to regulate meridians, promote the circulation of qi and blood, 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. Sticking to 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 vinegar 150 ml to soak your feet and drown your ankles. Soak for 20 minutes each time.
Note: It needs special reminder 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 situations!
3, pepper soaking feet
Efficacy: Zanthoxylum bungeanum is classified as a cold-dispelling drug in traditional Chinese medicine, which can dispel dampness and cold, support yang qi, benefit qi and promote water circulation. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the functions of sterilization, disinfection, pain relief, itching relief and swelling reduction. Soaking feet with pepper decoction can play the role of external treatment of internal diseases. Sticking to it every day can have the effect of getting rid of illness and prolonging life. The most obvious thing is that it can enhance the 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 them in this soup. When soaking your 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: foot soaking with pepper should not be carried out continuously for a long time. If you feel that the original symptoms disappear, you should stop for a few days and wait until there are insufficient symptoms. Otherwise, there may be phenomena such as "lack of breath" and "fire from water" mentioned in ancient Chinese medicine books.
4. mugwort leaves soak feet
Efficacy: Soaking feet with mugwort leaves has the effect of dispelling cold. Soaking feet with hot water every day has the effect of promoting blood circulation and dispelling dampness and cold in the body. Moreover, mugwort leaves can dredge twelve meridians and regulate yin and yang. People with smooth meridians will have smooth qi and blood, while people with healthy qi and blood will naturally have nowhere to stay. Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi water can effectively dispel deficiency fire and cold fire, and can treat oral ulcer, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other head and face recurrent diseases related to deficiency fire and excess fire.
Practice: Take a handful of mugwort leaves and soak your feet in boiling water, or take a quarter of the pure mugwort 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, drinking a cup of ginger and red jujube water will remove the cold without diarrhea. As long as there is no obvious fire, only soak your feet with warm water every day, not with mugwort water.