Can I soak my feet with Chinese medicine residue?

Drinking Chinese medicine is one of the methods to treat diseases. The side effects of Chinese medicine are smaller than those of Western medicine, and its efficacy is relatively mild. It also has a more significant effect on treating human diseases. However, generally speaking, a Chinese medicine can be used only a limited number of times. After being boiled two or three times, it loses its efficacy and what remains is the residue. Some people will throw away the medicine residue directly, but others will use it to soak their feet. So, can you use Chinese medicine residue to soak your feet?

Can I soak my feet with Chinese medicine residue?

People usually throw away the residue after decocting Chinese medicine. In fact, there are still some medicinal properties left in the residue, which can still be "recycled". So can Chinese medicine residue be used to soak feet?

Experts say that the residue left over from boiling Chinese medicine has two wonderful uses. One is to use it for growing flowers, as it is a very good organic fertilizer, and the other is to use it for foot soaking. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "soaking your feet in hot water is like taking tonic medicine; soaking your feet with Chinese medicine is better than taking tonic medicine." People can buy some Chinese medicine to soak their feet, such as safflower, mugwort and other Chinese medicines can be used for soaking their feet.

In fact, soaking your feet with homemade Chinese medicine is more effective and more suitable for your condition. Generally, Chinese medicine becomes residue after being decocted twice and is thrown away. In fact, the Chinese medicine still has medicinal effects. Soaking your feet with the residue can bring out the remaining effects.

In addition, Chinese medicine experts pointed out that the Chinese medicine you decoct yourself is more suitable for your own constitution and is more conducive to the efficacy of the Chinese medicine because the prescription is prescribed by Chinese medicine experts based on personal constitution after diagnosis.

But please note that not everyone is suitable for soaking feet with Chinese medicine. Let’s take a look at people who are not suitable for soaking their feet in Chinese medicine.

People who are not suitable for soaking feet with Chinese medicine

1. Women who are pregnant or menstruating, because Chinese medicine foot bath may stimulate women's gonad reflex area, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.

2. People suffering from various serious bleeding diseases, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, blood in the stool, cerebral hemorrhage, gastric bleeding, uterine bleeding and other internal bleeding, may suffer from local tissue bleeding during foot massage.

3. For critically ill patients with renal failure, heart failure, myocardial infarction, liver necrosis, etc., since their condition is very unstable, stimulation of the foot reflex zone may cause a strong reaction and complicate the condition.

4. Patients with some acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning, and surgical emergencies, such as trauma, fractures, burns, perforations, heavy bleeding, etc., because the best time for treatment may be missed.

5. People who are in a state of extreme anger, sorrow, joy, or mental stress or physical fatigue.

6. People who take a foot bath within 1 hour before or after meals. Because the blood vessels in the feet dilate and the blood volume increases during foot bathing, the blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract and internal organs decreases, affecting the gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not good for digestion; foot bath immediately after meals can cause a decrease in gastrointestinal blood volume, affecting digestion.

7. Patients with foot trauma, blisters, scabies, inflammation, suppuration, ulcers, edema and severe varicose veins.

Soaking your feet in medicinal residue is good for your health. You must do it at night for 20 minutes. Don't soak your feet for too long. One reason is that the water temperature will drop, and the other is that the efficacy of the medicine will weaken. So you can add warm water in the middle.