Is moxibustion effective in treating athlete's foot? Is moxibustion effective in treating athlete's foot?

Many people have athlete's foot. If you have athlete's foot in the summer, it will not only affect your health, but also make you embarrassed. In public places, some people have a very strong smell of athlete's foot, which produces an unpleasant odor that is unbearable. Athlete's foot is also particularly contagious. There are a lot of medicines on the market to treat athlete's foot, and the effects are sometimes good and sometimes bad. Some people use moxibustion to treat athlete's foot. Is moxibustion effective in treating athlete's foot?

People usually confuse athlete's foot and foot odor, but in fact they are different. People with athlete's foot generally have symptoms such as sweating, foot odor, and itchy feet. Severe patients will have peeling, redness, swelling, blisters, cracks, and ulcers between the toes. The root cause of foot odor is that the skin of the feet secretes more sweat and has a bad smell. If this continues for a long time, it will develop into serious athlete's foot.

Athlete's foot is usually divided into three categories: erosive, blister, and keratotic.

Erosive type: often occurs between the third and fourth, and between the fourth and fifth toes. Initially, the spaces between the toes are damp, whitish or small blisters appear. After drying and scaling, the dandruff reveals a moist, flushed eroded surface that is extremely itchy and prone to secondary infection.

Blister type: often occurs on the edge of the foot. Initially, they appear as small blisters with thick and full walls. Some of them may merge into large blisters. The blister fluid is transparent and there is no redness around them. The patient feels extremely itchy, and scratching often leads to secondary infection, such as erysipelas and lymphangitis.

Keratinic type: often occurs on the heels. The main symptoms are rough, thick and dry skin, keratinization and desquamation, itching, and easy cracking. This type of disease has no blisters or suppuration, and the course of the disease is slow and does not heal for many years.

Moxibustion therapy for athlete's foot

1. Soak your feet in hot water before moxibustion. You can add salt, vinegar or pepper to the foot washing water. Only one of the three can be added. You should not soak your feet in salt frequently, and if your feet are rotten, do not use vinegar.

2. Dry your feet. Be sure to wipe dry. Your feet must be dried after washing, even if you don't have athlete's foot.

3. Focus on moxibustion at Zusanli, Sanyinjiao, Yongquan and Yanglingquan, especially Yongquan.

4. Moxibustion can also be applied to itchy areas and ulcerated areas. If there is sore skin, blisters, cracks or itching between the toes, you can use moxibustion. Generally, the itching can be relieved immediately within 15-25 minutes, and the blisters will slowly collapse.

5. If there are blisters, it is best to use a needle to burn it red on an alcohol lamp and then puncture it, and apply moxibustion on the blisters.

6. If there are ulcers between the toes, you can focus on moxibustion on the Xiaxi acupoint.

7. Some people have sweaty feet. Put a bag of wormwood ash in the used shoes, which has a good moisture-absorbing effect.

8. Applying moxa ash on the affected area will stop itching immediately. For general athlete's foot, if you apply it several times a day and persist for a few days, it will be cured. This method is very effective!

9. Persistence is the key, and good results will appear over time.

After using traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion to treat athlete's foot, some people will find that the soles of their feet sweat, which is to expel moisture. In addition, you will also find that your feet no longer have an odor or itch. Traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion treatment of athlete's foot not only treats the feet, but also has the effect of maintaining physical health and treating both the symptoms and the root cause.