How to remove moisture by soaking your feet

Soaking your feet is a very enjoyable thing. It not only removes the coldness from the body but also regulates the body's meridians and dredges qi and blood. Foot soaking is suitable all year round, especially adding some functional Chinese medicinal materials to the foot soaking water, which can prevent and treat diseases. The most significant effect of foot soaking is to remove moisture from the body. So what are the methods of foot soaking to remove moisture? Are there any other methods besides the conventional ginger, sea salt and milk?

1. Sophora flavescens clears heat and dries dampness

Sophora flavescens is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It enters the heart, liver, stomach, large intestine, and bladder meridians. It can clear away heat and dampness, kill insects, and act as a diuretic. In addition to being taken internally, it can also be used for external use in decocting water for foot soaking. It can effectively clear heat from the blood and eliminate damp heat. Foot soaking method: Soak your feet in a decoction of lithospermum officinale, rhubarb, Kochia scoparia, Phellodendron chinense and dandelion. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, drying dampness and relieving itching, and inhibiting bacteria and deodorizing. Effectively improve symptoms such as athlete's foot and eczema.

2. Poria tonifies the spleen and eliminates dampness

Poria is mild in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the heart, spleen, and kidney meridians. It has the effects of promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, strengthening the spleen, and calming the nerves. It is mostly used clinically to treat edema, spleen deficiency, palpitations, and insomnia. Foot soaking method: Soak your feet in a decoction of almonds, white cardamom, coix seed, atractylodes, pig phosphorus, pinellia, and licorice, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, and promoting menstruation and diuresis.

3. Patchouli clears turbidity and eliminates dampness

Patchouli is slightly warm in nature and enters the spleen, lung, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispelling heat and relieving exterior symptoms, eliminating dampness and harmonizing the stomach. It can remove dampness and at the same time boost the qi of the spleen and stomach, and can easily make the damp and turbid air disappear. Foot soaking method: use 30-50 grams of patchouli, put it into two liters of water, boil it on high heat for 40 minutes, then simmer it on low heat until only 1 liter of the liquid is left. After the juice comes out, add water and boil 1 liter of the liquid. Combine the two liquids and pour them into the foot soaking basin. Soak your feet and massage your feet at the same time. It can effectively remove moisture and relieve summer heat.

4. Atractylodes macrocephala can dry dampness and promote diuresis

Atractylodes is warm in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, drying dampness and promoting diuresis, consolidating the exterior and stopping sweating, and calming the fetus. It is often used clinically to treat symptoms such as weak spleen, poor appetite and abdominal distension, loose stools, edema, difficulty urinating, dampness and arthralgia, and spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency.