Because of its medical effects, salt has a place in the earliest extant work on Chinese medicine, Shennong Ben Cao Jing. The Shennong Ben Cao Jing lists salt as a “middle product” with a “salty, cold taste, entering the stomach, kidney, large and small intestine meridians. It has the function of gushing out, clearing fire and cooling blood, and detoxifying. There are also kidney, fire down, moisten the dryness to dispel wind, clear heat and permeate the effect of damp.” Soak feet with salt: help sleep, kidney, anti-cold weekday hot water soak feet, appropriate to add salt, with massage Yongquan point, health effects are better, help nourish the kidney, sleep. The anti-inflammatory effect of salt is safe and effective. Salt dissolved in hot water, with the heat of the water, can better clean the skin, exfoliation, can do daily foot cleaning, but also can assist in the treatment of foot disease. Salt taste salty, into the kidney meridian, through the salt water foot soak can also play a role, and promote blood circulation, conducive to the heart and kidneys. When you have a cold, you can increase the water temperature, the temperature feels comfortable, to avoid burns. Soak until a slight sweat. Yongquan point is located at the bottom of the foot, curled foot when the front of the foot depression, about when the plantar 2, 3 metatarsal toe crease head end and the heel line of the first 1/3 and after 2/3 intersection point. Salt steamed orange: stop cough Salt steamed orange helps to relieve cough and phlegm caused by cold, and can also be used for loss of appetite, chest and abdominal distension on weekdays. Take 1 orange, 1/3 spoon of salt and make it as follows: 1. Wash the orange thoroughly and soak it in salt water for a while; 2. Cut off the top of the orange; 3. Sprinkle a little salt evenly on the orange flesh and poke it with chopsticks a few times to facilitate the salt penetration, in addition, use a toothpick to insert the outer part of the orange for fixing; 4. Put it in a bowl, cover it with the cut off top of the orange and steam it in a pot, after the water boils for about 10 minutes; 5, Remove the peel and take the pulp along with the steamed water. Salt pack hot compress: dispel dampness, cold, pain Take coarse salt, fry hot, put it into a cloth bag, you can make your own hot compress salt pack. The salt is pungent and warm to dispel cold, and the heating makes it easier for the medicinal properties to play. Nowadays, there are ready-made salt pack products in the market, which are also very convenient to use. Sprinkle a little water on the surface of the salt pack and heat it in the microwave oven for 1 minute, after the temperature reaches 50-60 degrees Celsius, you can use it. Salt pack hot compresses can be used for: Hot compresses on the heart of the foot, warming cold and dispelling dampness, can be used for daily health care. Hot compress on rheumatism, gout and other joint pain, can relieve pain. Hot compresses on the armpits, where there are a number of health points, can play a health care role in strengthening the heart and lungs. Hot compresses on the abdomen, can relieve the elderly can not urinate. The elderly can not urinate when the lower abdomen pain, hot compresses can relax the muscles, reduce the resistance to urine flow, so that urination smoothly, pain relief. Salt pack with a little material, the effect is better 1, add a small amount of cumin: good effect for stomach pain. Apply it to the stomach and back while it is hot to relax the spasmodic parts of the stomach, which is soothing and plays a role in smoothing out stomach gas and dissipating stomach problems. Applying it to the navel can tonic the body’s yin and yang, especially for men with liver and kidney yin deficiency, such as lumbago and dizziness, tinnitus and spermatorrhea. 2. Add the right amount of dried mugwort: Relieve menstrual pain. Applied externally when menstrual pain is present, it can warm the meridians, expel cold and relieve pain. It can also be used for shoulder and neck, joint strain, soreness and swelling discomfort, etc. When gum swelling and bleeding, mouth ulcers and sore throat, use light salt water to gargle.