Now a popular saying: “rich people take medicine, poor people wash their feet”, foot bath health care today is becoming more popular. Although the history of Chinese civilization has gone through thousands of years of evolution, but the essence of this traditional Chinese health care has not been abandoned, but rather it has not only been inherited, and has been developed even more.
Foot bath originated in ancient times, is part of the medicinal bath, its use and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the same long history, foot bath, also known as foot soak, the feet immersed in the appropriate temperature of the liquid, this treatment method belongs to the scope of internal and external treatment of Chinese medicine. The foot coexists with the body’s organs corresponding to the sixty-two reflex zones, the distribution of numerous human acupuncture points, and is therefore known as the human “second heart”. The feet have the function of running qi and blood to contact the internal organs and communicate with the internal and external throughout the up and down.
Nowadays, with the gradual acceleration of the pace of life, work pressure, more and more people are in a state of subhealth, body fatigue, pedicure has become a more ideal way to adjust the state of the body, relieve the stress of life. Chinese medicine believes that. “the nose for the root of the seedling orifice, the ear for the root of the divine machine, the milk for the root of the zongqi, the foot for the root of the essence”, nose, ear, milk is the root of all aspects of the human body, and the foot is the total essence of the human body of the original, a proverb widely circulated by folk —- “people have feet, as if the tree has roots “, “people old feet first decline, the tree old root first exhausted.” So the diseases of the whole body can affect the feet, the same foot lesions will also affect the whole body and cause the corresponding diseases.
When winter comes and the hands and feet are cold, burning the feet with Yao medicine will make the whole body feel comfortable. Cold feet can reflexively cause upper respiratory tract infections, stomach pain, frostbite, phlebitis, etc. As long as you adhere to the daily Yao medicine foot bath and finger massage certain points, you can achieve a good effect of strengthening the body, disease prevention and treatment, if you persist, you can expect to benefit life longevity.
The benefits of foot bath.
1, promote blood circulation
The foot is the farthest from the heart, but also in the lowest position of the human body, is a relatively poor part of the peripheral blood circulation, coupled with the lack of sebaceous glands in the foot, and sweat glands secrete relatively more, easy to consume heat, poor warmth function, so there is a “cold from the feet up, sickness from the feet”, through the role of the force of medicine in the foot bath, can promote vasodilation. As Chinese medicine says, “blood is hot, cold is condensed,” due to the improvement of blood circulation of the tissues and organs, providing more oxygen and nutrients, and thus promote metabolism, to achieve the role of health care so foot bath therapy when cardiovascular disease, joint pain, gastrointestinal discomfort and other diseases have significant curative effect.
2.Enhance the function of sweat gland and sebaceous gland excretion.
Dispel cold and dampness, blood circulation, relieve muscle spasm. The human body due to feel the wind, cold, moisture three kinds of evil, and stagnation in the body, can cause by occlusion, blood stagnation, double feet in the role of medicine, so that the whole body pore expansion, sebaceous glands and other excretory function, a variety of harmful substances with sweat excretion out of the body, blood flow, silt has been sparse, stagnant line, so as to play a Shu Shu blood, remove cold and damp, blood circulation, swelling and pain, so foot bath therapy for cold and flu Therefore, foot bath therapy has good effect on cold and flu, abnormal sweat gland metabolism, etc. It also has obvious relief effect on painful spasm caused by bruises, stiffness caused by chronic rheumatoid arthritis, spasm pain caused by calf gastrocnemius spasm, ankle sprain, dysmenorrhea, cold stomach pain caused by gastric smooth muscle spasm, etc.
3.Enhance the function of internal organs
Foot bath when the force of medicine on the foot reflex zones and meridians can be effective stimulation, so as to regulate and enhance the function of internal organs.
4.Enhance the immune function
Double foot is under the action of the force of medicine, promote the whole body blood circulation, but also correspondingly improve the circulation of lymphatic fluid, lymphatic circulation can accelerate the lymphocytes continue to produce antibodies, thereby enhancing the body’s immune function, therefore, foot bath therapy is effective for repeated colds and other diseases with low immune capacity.
5.Regulate blood pressure, regulate blood viscosity
The improvement of blood circulation of the whole body can reduce the viscosity of blood and make the blood flow to a normal state, because the flow of liquid follows the natural law of “heat is dissolved, and cold is condensed”.
6.Improve sleep
Every night before bedtime foot bath can make the lower extremities blood circulation can be improved, and can be felt with the skin and the role of the central nervous system. The relative reduction of blood to the head, thus making it easy to sleep, so the insomnia caused by neurasthenia patients have obvious effects.
7.Promote metabolism
Double feet under the action of the force of medicine, so that the whole body’s blood circulation improved, prompting the endocrine glands to secrete a variety of hormones. Regulate the metabolic balance of body fat, protein, sugar, water and salt, so as to improve the body’s metabolism and promote the health of the organism.
8.Relief of tension and anxiety
A person feels irritable, depressed mood, if the footbath therapy, the mind will be awake, emotional calm, lift tension and anxiety.
9, eliminate fatigue, restore physical strength
As footbath therapy can promote the circulation of blood throughout the body, enhance the body’s metabolism, relax the muscles of the whole body, eliminate fatigue in the body, restore physical strength.
Footbath to pay attention to.
1, foot bath should pay attention to the temperature is moderate (the best temperature in 40-45 ℃), both to prevent the water temperature too burn the skin, especially coma, life can not take care of themselves, while cool water on the vasoconstriction effect and beneficial to health. It is best to let the water temperature according to the foot to adapt to gradually become hot.
2, foot bath time in 30-40 minutes is appropriate, foot bath time to maintain the water temperature, especially for foot bath treatment, only to maintain a certain temperature and ensure that the prescribed foot bath time, in order to ensure the maximum effectiveness of drugs, so as to play a therapeutic effect.
3, foot bath, such as giving the foot to the appropriate physical stimulation, such as massage, foot pinching or foot rubbing, etc., the conditions can also use the foot bath with heating and massage function for foot bath, the effect is better.
4, before meals, 30 minutes after meals should not be foot bath, due to foot bath, foot vasodilatation, blood volume increases, resulting in the gastrointestinal and visceral blood reduction, affecting the digestive function of the stomach and intestines. Foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is detrimental to digestion, and foot bath immediately after meals can cause a reduction in blood volume of the stomach and intestines, affecting digestion.
5, foot bath treatment, some drugs can be used topically blistering, or local skin redness, itching. Some patients are idiosyncratic, allergic reactions can occur after the use of drugs. After the appearance of these symptoms, the drug should be stopped.
6, the foot bath used for external treatment of drugs, the dose is large, some drugs still have toxicity, so generally should not be imported. At the same time, the foot medicine treatment is completed, the affected area should be washed and wiped dry.
7, when the above symptoms, cold water can be used to wash the feet, so that the foot vasoconstriction, blood flow fully to the head, eliminating acute anemia of the head, to relieve symptoms.
8, there is bleeding and other symptoms of patients, should not be foot bath.
Warm tips.
Not suitable for foot baths: serious heart disease patients; cerebral hemorrhage is not cured; foot inflammation, skin disease, trauma or skin burns; bleeding disorders, septicemia and other patients; loss of perception of temperature sensing; serious thrombosis patients; heart disease patients; pregnant women; children (should be used with the help of adults); temperature sensing retarded (should control the temperature to avoid burns), it is not suitable for foot baths.