Many people in the city like to go to the health center after work, foot massage center to do a Chinese medicine, feel warm, relief, and can regulate the body. In fact, if for various reasons you can not go outside to foot bath, you can make your own Chinese medicine foot bath at home, and you boil out the Chinese medicine juice foot soak, to better than the foot spa with powder after soaking feet.
Chinese medicine believes that “the foot is the root of the six meridians”, the body’s twelve meridians have the foot three yang meridians terminate in the foot, the foot three yin meridians begin in the foot, distributed in the ankle joint area of the meridian points up to more than 60. Foot soak therapy has the effect of unblocking the meridians, unblocking the qi and blood, and expelling the cold. Now it is winter, soak your feet with hot water before going to bed to prevent disease and health effects.
Ginger foot bath
Method: You can put cut ginger slices in the warm water for foot soaking, or boil the ginger slices in a pot for about 10 minutes and then pour the boiled ginger water into the foot soaking water.
Suitable for people
Ginger, both as a condiment and a Chinese medicine, has a warming effect, can warm the Yang and disperse the cold, especially suitable for people with a cold body. Ginger has an osmotic effect, adding ginger to the foot soak, the active ingredients of ginger can be absorbed through the skin, which is also one of the methods of external treatment in Chinese medicine. People with chronic gastrointestinal problems, frequent insomnia, cold hands and feet, can use ginger to foot bath before bed.
Wine footbath
Method: Put two tablespoons of white wine or yellow wine in warm water that has been adjusted to a good temperature, and then put it on your feet.
Suitable for people
Wine has the effect of relieving pain, relaxing tendons and promoting blood circulation, which is especially suitable for people with pain, such as joint pain, menstrual cramps and so on. Some elderly people have pain in their knuckles in winter, so they can add wine to their feet and put their hands in the water at the same time.
Vinegar foot bath
Method: Put two tablespoons of vinegar in the foot soak water with the temperature adjusted.
Suitable for people
Vinegar has a very good astringent effect. It is suitable for women with menstrual disorders to use when soaking their feet, and it can also play a beauty effect at the same time. People with high blood pressure are also suitable to use vinegar to soak their feet.
【Tips】
It is better to soak feet in a bucket than in a basin, the water should not just cover the feet, it is better to soak up to the calf.
Water temperature is best controlled at 45 degrees Celsius role.
Soak for 30 to 40 minutes, slightly sweating can be. Do not be greedy to sweat profusely.
Avoid soaking feet on an empty stomach. Because hot water foot soak can make the blood circulation accelerated, the body consumes more heat, fasting when the person’s glycogen stores less, prone to hypoglycemia.
Avoid foot soaking immediately after a meal. After the meal that the foot soak with hot water will be stimulated by the water temperature, so that the skin and lower limb vasodilatation, the relative reduction of blood in the stomach and intestines, hindering the digestion and absorption of food, so an hour after the meal foot soak is appropriate.
But the addition of Chinese herbs is more effective. Chinese medicine foot soak is based on the principle of diagnosis and treatment of Chinese medicine, according to the different diseases to choose the appropriate drugs, water decoction juice after soaking feet, through the drug on the reflex zones and acupuncture points of the foot stimulation penetration, the active ingredients of the drug through the foot absorption, can achieve the effect of disease cure, no disease fitness.
Insomnia people
You can use 30 grams each of Acacia bark, sour date, Angelica, and Su Xinhua, add water and boil for an hour and pour it into the foot bath, then add the right amount of warm water, adjust the temperature to about 45 degrees Celsius, you can soak your feet. These foot soak herbs can play a role in nourishing the mind and promoting sleep. You can soak your feet an hour before bedtime.
Chronic gastrointestinal disease people
For people who suffer from chronic gastrointestinal diseases, you can use 30 grams each of dried ginger, dried mugwort leaves, thick park and Chuanxiong, boil them with water for one hour and pour them into the foot soak basin, then add the right amount of warm water and two tablespoons of wine (white or yellow wine is fine), adjust the temperature to about 45 degrees Celsius, and soak your feet to relieve pain.
Women with menstrual disorders or dysmenorrhea
You can use 15 grams of Suxin flower, 15 grams of rose flower, 30 grams of angelica and 30 grams of Chuanxiong, add water and boil it for an hour, then pour it into the foot soak basin, add the right amount of warm water and two tablespoons of vinegar, adjust the temperature to about 45 degrees Celsius, and soak your feet. All these herbs have the effect of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation.
Chronic headache people
Due to the stressful life and fast pace of work, many urbanites suffer from chronic headaches, such as migraine, fatigue headache, etc. These people can use 20 grams each of Chuanxiong, Manchuria, Angelica, Chrysanthemum, add water and boil for an hour and pour it into the foot soaking basin, then add the right amount of warm water and two tablespoons of wine (white wine or yellow wine is fine), adjust the temperature to about 45 degrees Celsius, you can soak your feet, can play a blood, dispel wind, and The effect of pain.
Special reminder
1, if a family shares a foot soaking bucket, and one of them has foot fungus. People with foot odor foot soak is best to use disposable plastic film, discard after use to avoid infection to family members. Foot soaking bucket used every day after the best in the sun dry, can also play a role in sterilization.
2, hypertensive people soak feet when the water temperature should be controlled at 40 degrees or less, soaking time should also be appropriately shortened to 20-30 minutes. This is because the hot water soaking feet, peripheral blood vessels will expand, and subsequently bring blood pressure fluctuations, such fluctuations for healthy people can adapt, adjust, but for hypertensive people may mean dangerous. Hypertensive people in the foot soak if they feel dizzy, panic, should immediately stop soaking feet.
3, diabetic skin sensory deterioration, insensitive to temperature, and once burned is not easy to heal. Therefore, family members to help them test the water temperature, the water temperature should be controlled at 40 degrees Celsius or less.