“Hot water soak feet, add some Chinese medicine” is an excellent physical therapy health care method in the treasure house of traditional medicine in China. Medical texts record that “people have feet, like trees have roots, trees withered roots first exhausted, people old feet first decline.” Therefore, as early as several thousand years ago, Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the exercise and maintenance of the feet, and the use of foot massage (foot therapy) to prevent and treat diseases. Chinese medicine health care theory on the “four seasons of the year foot bath: spring foot bath, open Yang solid off; summer foot bath, summer reason can be dispelled; autumn foot bath, lung moisten intestines moisten; winter foot bath, Dan Tian wet burn” record, is the image of the function of Chinese medicine foot therapy overview. Modern scientific research shows that there are reflex zones (acupuncture points) on the human feet corresponding to the organs of the internal organs, stimulating these reflex zones can promote human blood circulation, regulate the endocrine system, enhance the functions of human organs, and achieve the self-care effect of disease prevention and treatment. China has an old saying: “Chinese medicine foot bath, better than taking tonic medicine.” If you soak your feet for 15 minutes a day can play a health-care role, such as dipping your feet into the hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, about 15 to 20 minutes after the headache will be significantly relieved. This is because the feet vasodilation, blood flow from the head to the feet, can relatively reduce brain congestion, thus relieving headache. For the headache caused by cold and fever, hot water soaking feet also helps to reduce fever. If the foot soak at the same time can constantly massage the Yongquan point with your hand and press the back of the big toe on the outside of the back of the foot Taichong point, but also help to reduce blood pressure. And, often adhere to the Chinese medicine foot soak foot therapy has a wide range of applications, rheumatism, spleen and stomach diseases, insomnia, headaches, colds and other systemic diseases, paraplegia, traumatic brain injury, stroke, lumbar disc herniation, kidney disease, diabetes and other major diseases, rehabilitation treatment after serious illnesses, etc. are included. Therefore, adhere to the science of foot therapy, especially for the relief of modern urban population prone to a variety of occupational diseases, can often receive twice the result with half the effort. The benefits of herbal foot soak First, to promote blood circulation. The foot has been the second heart of the human body since ancient times. From the health theory, the foot is the farthest from the human heart, and the heaviest burden, therefore, this place is most likely to lead to poor blood circulation, medical texts: “people have feet, as if the tree has roots, the tree withered root first exhausted, people old feet first decline.” Especially for those who often feel cold hands and feet, soaking feet is an excellent method. Second, stimulate the acupuncture points, reflex zones and meridians of the foot. Many people have done foot therapy, massage therapists point pressure on our feet, will feel pain, pain, swelling, this situation can basically indicate that our corresponding reflex zones visceral problems. Therefore, when we do foot massage, will feel relaxed all over. At the same time, there are six major meridians on the human foot, including the termination point of three Yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, gall bladder meridian), and the starting point of three Yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian, kidney meridian), all on the foot, soaking the foot is also equivalent to stimulating these six most important meridians. Third, the treatment of many diseases, has a very good auxiliary effect. People often say a saying: “rich people eat tonic, poor people bubble feet”. It can be seen that the role of foot soak is great. Especially in modern society, the massive use of air conditioning, plus people generally love to eat cold food, so the body more cold and damp, through the foot soak, can accelerate the body to drain the cold. Many people who have gone through foot soaking have this experience, soaking feet, will feel very cold knees, indicating that the cold dampness in the body is being forced out of the body by the hot water and herbs of foot soaking. Therefore, if you have a cold, sometimes without taking medicine, bubble feet, a sweat, the body’s cold dispersed, it is OK. There are also many people with high blood pressure, if you soak your feet for a long time, it will make the body’s limb end blood circulation improved. As a result, slowly blood pressure came down. In short, understand the reasoning, physical action to do, soak feet the benefits of only you know best. Then how to be considered a good foot soak? That is soaked until your back feels a little damp, or forehead sweat, even if it is good. Note, do not sweat a lot. Because sweat is the heart of the liquid. Sweating too much will be sad. Just a little sweat is OK, it means your meridians are going up and down. This is also a way to prove whether your meridians are open or not. Now introduce the foot soak for heel pain special effect formula as follows: 1, “six flavors of home health care foot soak formula” includes: angelica 15 grams, safflower, Sumac, Zelen, raw earth, cinnamon 10 grams each. Angelica is known as the “blood medicine”, sweet, pungent, warm, to the liver, heart, spleen meridian, blood regulating menstruation, blood pain, laxative effect, the main treatment of blood deficiency, blood stasis, cold abdominal pain, bruises, wind-cold paralysis, blood deficiency, constipation and other diseases. Safflower, an essential blood invigorator for health care, is pungent and warm in nature, and belongs to the heart and liver meridians, and has the effect of invigorating blood and promoting menstruation, dispelling silt and relieving pain. The other two blood invigorating herbs, Sumac and Zelen, are very effective. Su Mu is sweet, salty, pungent and flat, and belongs to the Heart and Liver meridians, with the effects of activating the blood to heal injuries and dispelling siltation to clear the meridians; Ze Lan is bitter, pungent and slightly warm, and belongs to the Liver and Spleen meridians, with the effects of activating the blood to regulate menstruation, dispelling siltation to eliminate carbuncles, and promoting water retention to reduce swelling. It is sweet, bitter and cold in nature, and belongs to the heart, liver and kidney meridians, with the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, nourishing yin and generating fluid. The herb Gui Zhi, which is pungent, sweet and warm, belongs to the heart, lung and bladder meridians, has the effect of dispersing wind and cold, warming the meridians, and helping Yang to transform Qi. The “six flavors of family health care foot soak” has the effect of accelerating blood circulation, relaxing the tendons and blood, eliminating fatigue, can make people feel relaxed and happy, to achieve the purpose of health care, improve the quality of life and reduce the occurrence of disease. 2, wind-cold cold: angelica 15 grams, safflower, sumac, zelenium, raw earth 10 grams each, hosin 6 grams. The efficacy of Hosin: dispel wind, dispel cold, move water, open the orifice. Treating wind-cold headache, nasal abscess, toothache, phlegm and cough, rheumatic paralysis and pain. 3, rheumatic paralysis: Angelica sinensis 15g, Safflower, Sumac, Zelen, Radix Scutellariae Sinensis, Scutellariae Sinensis. The efficacy of the herb: dispel wind and cold, remove dampness and swelling, relieve tendons and activate blood. Treating wind-cold and damp paralysis, sore joints, numbness of skin, weakness of limbs, edema, bruises and injuries. Effects of Scutellaria baicalensis: Dipping real fire, removing dampness and heat, stopping bleeding, calming the fetus. It is used for treating strong heat and thirst, lung-heat cough, damp-heat diarrhea and dysentery, jaundice, pyorrhea, vomiting, epistaxis, collapse, leakage, red eyes and swelling pain, fetal restlessness, carbuncle and furuncle. 4, hypertension: Hooked vine 40 grams, Xia Gu Cao 30 grams, mulberry leaf 20 grams, chrysanthemum 20 grams. The efficacy of Gymnema sylvestre: Clearing heat and calming the liver, quenching the wind and calming the panic. For the treatment of pediatric epilepsy S, adults with high blood pressure, dizziness, dizziness, eclampsia in women. Effects of Xia Ku Cao: Clearing the liver and dispersing nodules. Treating scrofula, gall tumor, canker sores, breast cancer, night pain of eye beads, shyness and lacrimation, dizziness of head and eyes, distorted mouth and eyes, tendon pain, pulmonary tuberculosis, acute jaundiced infectious hepatitis, hematemesis, and dysbiosis. Effects of mulberry leaf: Dispelling wind and clearing heat, cooling the blood and brightening the eyes. It is used for treating wind-heat fever, headache, red eyes, thirst, lung-heat cough, wind paralysis, addiction rash, and elephantiasis of the lower limbs. Chrysanthemum efficacy: dispel wind, clear heat, brighten the eyes, detoxify. Cure headache, dizziness, redness of the eyes, heart and chest fever, furuncles, swelling and poisoning. 5, insomnia: magnet 60 grams, chrysanthemum 20 grams, scutellaria 15 grams, nightshade 30 grams. The effect of magnet: submerging Yang and nourishing Qi, calming and tranquilizing the mind. Treating dizziness of the head and eyes, tinnitus and deafness, asthma, epilepsy, and anxiety. Effects of Nelumbo Nucifera: Nourishing the heart, tranquilizing the mind, clearing the ligaments and dispelling wind. For insomnia, strain, excessive sweating, blood deficiency, body pain, carbuncle, scrofula, wind sores and scabies. 6, hot salt water soak (1) can prevent foot odor: often use salt water soak feet not only can sterilize, prevent foot odor attack, but also make feet smooth and neat. (2) can help sleep and anti-aging: often soak feet with salt water, with massage Chung Quan and other points, can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and anti-aging effect. (3) can prevent colds: feet by the cold and warm, it will cause the upper respiratory tract local temperature drop and resistance to weaken and strengthen, so there is “wash your face should be cold water, brush your teeth need warm water, wash your feet to hot water,” said. Regularly wash your feet with salt water, and then massage Chung Quan and other points, can promote local blood circulation, sleep and anti-aging effect, but also make the feet smooth and tidy, can also prevent colds, and can even enhance memory, so that the mind feels lighter. It is best to flood the calf belly, “the calf belly is the body’s second heart” can greatly promote the body’s blood circulation better. Add a small spoon of salt and ginger 50 to 70 grams in hot water, soak your feet for about half an hour. Chinese medicine believes that salt has the effect of clearing fire, cooling blood, detoxification, etc., while ginger has the effect of dispersing cold, stopping vomiting, detoxification, for wind-cold colds, wheezing and fullness, sore throat and other treatment effect is better. Generally, it can be effective when done twice at the beginning of a cold.