Anti-inflammatory foot bath

In real life, soaking your feet frequently is very beneficial to the body. Soaking your feet in warm water can not only promote blood circulation in the feet and legs, but also relieve physical fatigue, which is very good for the body. Adding different medicines to the foot soaking water can play a role in detoxification and anti-inflammation. You can add some plant herbs, such as dandelions, which can play a role in anti-inflammatory and detoxification.

What foot bath should I use to reduce inflammation and detoxify?

1. Honeysuckle and aloe vera foot bath has good detoxification effect

It is very convenient to soak your feet in honeysuckle and aloe vera. You just need to put honeysuckle, aloe vera and jasmine into clear water, boil them in a pot, and then you can soak your feet. If you use this recipe for foot soaking regularly, you can effectively remove spots and it can have a very good effect in moisturizing the skin.

2. Soaking your feet in salt water can detoxify

Salt water actually has very good bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects. Regular foot soaking in salt water can also have a very good detoxification effect and can effectively promote the excretion of toxins in the body.

3. Soak your feet with white peony and safflower

It can detoxify with appropriate amounts of white peony root, safflower, cyperus rotundus, codonopsis pilosula, atractylodes macrocephala, raw rehmannia, angelica sinensis, northern adenophora, poria, chuanxiong and magnolia officinalis. Add appropriate amount of water, boil for half an hour, then remove the residue, take the juice, drink a cup of it, pour the remaining medicine liquid and 2,000 ml of boiling water into the foot bath, first fumigate and scrub the face, and then soak your feet when the temperature is right. One course of treatment is 20 days. Safflower has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Regular foot soaking with safflower can have a good detoxification and beauty effect.

Who should not soak their feet?

1. It is not suitable for people with an empty stomach or who are too full to soak their feet

People who are fasting or too full should not soak their feet, because soaking the feet will cause the blood vessels in the feet to dilate and the blood volume to increase, resulting in a decrease in blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract and internal organs, 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.

2. Don’t soak your feet if they are frozen.

Frozen feet mean that you have been attacked by extremely cold wind and the temperature is lower than the body's normal tolerance, and your skin and muscles are in a stiff state. If you suddenly use hot water to scald your feet at this time, the temperature will suddenly change from cold to hot. The skin and muscles cannot withstand the huge temperature difference of dozens of degrees Celsius, which will aggravate the condition of frozen feet. In severe cases, it may even cause the muscles to separate from the bones. Therefore, when your feet are frozen, you should rub them moderately with your hands to warm them up, but it is not advisable to soak your feet in hot water.

3. Patients with severe bleeding diseases should not soak their feet

People suffering from various serious bleeding diseases should not soak their feet, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, bloody stool, cerebral hemorrhage, gastric bleeding, uterine bleeding and other internal bleeding. Such people may cause local tissue bleeding during foot massage.

4. Children in their growth period should not soak their feet

Children in their developmental period. The water temperature for soaking feet of children in the developmental period should not be too high. Frequent soaking feet in overheated water will cause the plantar ligaments to deform and relax due to heat, which is not conducive to the development of the arch of the foot and can easily induce flat feet over time. Empty stomach or full stomach. People who are fasting or too full should not soak their feet, because soaking the feet will cause the blood vessels in the feet to dilate and the blood volume to increase, resulting in a decrease in blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract and internal organs, 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.

5. It is not advisable to soak your feet in other situations

People who are in a state of extreme anger, sorrow, or joy, or who are mentally tense or physically overly tired. Although foot soaking is good, before soaking your feet you must find out who cannot soak their feet and what the precautions for soaking your feet are, so that you can soak your feet correctly, so that you can maintain your health. Various critically ill patients such as renal failure and heart failure. For critically ill patients with renal failure, heart failure, etc., since their condition is very unstable, stimulation of the foot reflex zone may cause a strong reaction and complicate the condition, so these people should not soak their feet.