It turns out that soaking feet with Sophora flavescens has these effects and functions

The weather is getting colder. People's bodies need blood circulation in this season. If you want to promote blood circulation, it is not enough to just hold a hot water bottle or exercise. You can soak your feet in Sophora flavescens before going to bed every night. Sophora flavescens foot soaking has the functions of regulating qi and blood, improving the body, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and improving sleep. Moreover, soaking feet with different medicinal materials can produce different effects. Let's take a look.

Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath recipe

Soak your feet in Sophora flavescens. The main ingredients are: Sophora flavescens, Lithospermum officinale, Rhubarb, Kochia scoparia, Phellodendron amurense, and Taraxacum officinale. The specific effects are: clearing away heat and detoxifying, drying dampness and relieving itching, inhibiting bacteria and deodorizing, removing athlete's foot, improving eczema, etc.

Five-flavor foot bath. The main ingredients are: Schisandra chinensis, Cyperus rotundus, Polygonum multiflorum, Curcuma aromatica, Lilium bulb, and Acorus calamus. The specific effects are: nourishing the heart and calming the mind, soothing the liver and relieving depression, and improving sleep.

Soak your feet in ginger. The main ingredients are: old ginger, Achyranthes bidentata, Gentiana macrophylla, cinnamon bark, Angelica dahurica, and Cynanchum wilfordii. The specific effects are: dispelling wind and dampness, warming the meridians and dredge collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and improving rheumatic joint pain.

Soak your feet in Salvia miltiorrhiza. The main ingredients are: Salvia miltiorrhiza, Angelica sinensis, Rhubarb, Red Peony Root, Chuanxiong, and Achyranthes bidentata. The specific effects are: promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and promoting blood circulation.

Soak your feet with ginseng and Astragalus. The main ingredients are: Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Poria cocos, Tangerine peel, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Angelica sinensis. The specific effects are: replenishing qi and blood, and improving fatigue.

Soak your feet in actinolite. The main ingredients are: actinolite, dodder seed, fennel, cinnamon, rehmannia root, and cnidium monnieri. The specific effects are: tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, warming the kidney and dispersing cold.

The best time to soak your feet

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human foot is the gathering place of the starting and ending points of various meridians, and is distributed with more than 60 empty reflex areas connected to the internal organs of the human body. Foot soaking can relax the meridians and improve blood circulation. The reason why we choose to soak our feet around 9 o'clock in the evening to nourish the kidneys is because the qi and blood in the kidney meridian are relatively weak at this time. Soaking your feet at this time will increase the body's heat, thereby expanding the blood vessels in the body, which is beneficial to blood circulation and thus promoting blood circulation in the body. At the same time, the nerves that have been tense all day and the kidneys that have been tired all day can be completely relaxed and fully regulated by soaking your feet at this time. People will feel comfortable and achieve the best kidney-tonifying effect.

How to soak it?

When your back feels a little damp or your forehead starts to sweat, it means you are well. Be careful not to sweat too much. Because sweat is the fluid of the heart, sweating too much will hurt the heart. As long as you sweat slightly, it means that the meridians are connected from top to bottom. This is also a way to prove whether the meridians are unobstructed. Some people start sweating after soaking for 20 minutes, while some people need to soak for a long time before sweating, and some people may not even sweat at all.