Post Date December, 02 2023
The foot is the second heart of a person. People often say, "Wash your face with cold water, soak your feet with hot water." This shows the importance of soaking your feet with hot water for your health, especially for the elderly. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "foot bathing occurs all year round.". Below, the editor introduces several simple and effective "small prescriptions" for foot baths.
ginger
Ginger in traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the category of pungent, warming, and relieving external symptoms, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving external symptoms, and has fewer toxic and side effects. Modern medicine believes that ginger can stimulate capillaries and improve local blood circulation and metabolism. People who are afraid of the cold and prone to cold hands and feet can use ginger to soak their feet.
Many of the medicinal ingredients in ginger are small molecular substances, which can be prevented from volatilizing by covering the pot and boiling. The amount of half a piece of ginger is the amount of water that is used to soak feet in a pot for ordinary households. If you use more water to soak your feet or have severe symptoms of fear of cold, you can increase the amount of ginger as appropriate. After soaking your feet with ginger water for a period of time, the symptoms of fear of cold can generally be improved to a certain extent.
argy wormwood
According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood is a mild, bitter, and non-toxic single drug. It is also commonly used in acupuncture and moxibustion and moxibustion, so it is also called "medical herb". Using wormwood to soak feet can also improve lung function, which is very beneficial for people with chronic bronchitis and prone to cough and white phlegm.
The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that of soaking feet with ginger. Generally, 30-50 grams (a small handful) of dried wormwood is used to soak feet with boiling water. The cooking method is the same as that mentioned earlier.
Patients with severe cold and dampness can soak their feet with wormwood once a week. You can also use wormwood water to soak your feet while drinking a glass of ginger and jujube water (10 dried red dates plus two slices of ginger, plus ten bowls of water to cook for two hours) as an aid.
chinese cinnamon
Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, official cinnamon, or fragrant cinnamon, is commonly used as a household spice along with prickly ash, both of which have the effect of warming the kidney and yang. Using them to soak your feet has a better relieving effect on edema caused by kidney disease.
"If edema symptoms begin at the pendulous part of the body (such as the leg) and gradually develop to other parts of the body, it may be due to cardiac function problems that cause cardiogenic edema.". This type of edema can be soaked in the aforementioned ginger boiled water, which can promote blood circulation in the lower limbs, thereby achieving the goal of assisting in reducing edema.
(Intern Editor: Xie Yunsheng)
