Elderly people at the age of 70 can choose ginger and mugwort leaves to soak their feet.
Ginger is slightly warm in nature, pungent in taste, and can enter the spleen, lung and stomach meridians, with the effect of warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), relieving the surface and dispersing cold (removing the cold from the surface of the muscle). Ginger is usually taken in decoction, and soaking the feet externally can dispersing the wind and dispersing the cold. Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
Mugwort is warm in nature, pungent and bitter in flavor, with a small poison, and can enter the kidney meridian, spleen meridian, liver meridian, with the efficacy of dispersing cold pain, warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, and Mugwort has the efficacy of dispelling dampness and relieving itching when used externally. Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
70-year-old people can use the above Chinese medicine decoction foot soak, in the process of foot soak, pay attention to the water temperature can not be too hot, soak your feet for a long time can not be too long. In addition, although the Chinese medicine has the above wind dispersal cold dampness effect, but foot soak external can not fully play the role of drugs, such as the need to achieve the effect of treatment, it is recommended to standardize the treatment under the guidance of a doctor.