What Chinese medicine is the best for foot bath?

The cold winter is coming soon. The weather is getting drier and drier, and the body temperature is seriously dropping. As the cold wind blows, the north wind is getting stronger and stronger. When we get home from work after a hard day, our feet and hands are cold. At this time, you might as well soak your feet in a basin of hot water, which can not only soothe the blood, but also soothe the meridians. So what Chinese medicine foot soaking is the best!

First, the foot soaking time should not be too long, 15-30 minutes is appropriate. When soaking your feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly who feel chest tightness or dizziness should temporarily stop soaking their feet and take a rest.

Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so family members should test the water temperature first to prevent scalding.

Second, it is not advisable to soak your feet within 1 hour after a meal. After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet in hot water immediately after a meal, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead. Over time, this will affect digestion and absorption and lead to nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, it is best to soak your feet one hour after a meal.

Third, it is best to use a wooden basin for Chinese medicine foot bath. The chemical composition in metal basins such as copper basins is unstable and can easily react with tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine to produce harmful substances such as tannic acid iron, which greatly reduces the efficacy of the medicine.

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Fourth, children should not soak their feet in overheated water for a long time. Because the arch of the foot begins to form in childhood, it is important to pay attention to protecting it from an early age. If you often use hot water to wash your child's feet, the ligaments on the soles of the feet will become loose, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch of the foot and can easily lead to flat feet.

Fifth, women should not use Chinese medicine to soak their feet during menstruation. The problems that women encounter during their menstrual period are more complicated. If you cannot identify the cause and use Chinese medicine to soak your feet, it will not only fail to have a soothing effect, but may also aggravate symptoms such as dysmenorrhea.

Therefore, if women want to use Chinese medicine foot bath method to achieve the purpose of treating dysmenorrhea and other menstrual health problems.

Foot soaking is something we must do every day, just like washing feet. Many people think that washing feet only takes 3 minutes, but there are more than 60 acupoints on our feet. If we don't make good use of them, our body will fall. There is a lot of knowledge in foot soaking and it has many benefits.