Seven kinds of water for foot soaking have miraculous effects

1: Why can soaking your feet at night replenish blood?

Blood deficiency, blood stasis → cold hands and feet, dull tongue, spots on the face, tight heart, stuffiness, shortness of breath → soak your feet at night

---Put safflower (spicy in taste, warm in nature, enters the liver meridian and pericardium meridian, breaks blood, promotes blood circulation, harmonizes blood, and regulates blood) in hot water to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; it can dredge the three yin meridians of the kidney, liver, and spleen.

2: Tips for foot soaking

Soak your feet in spring to open up the sun and consolidate the body;

Soak your feet in summer to remove dampness and heat;

Soak your feet in autumn to cleanse your intestines and moisten your lungs;

Soaking your feet in winter can warm your dantian.

Add salt to water

Treat constipation → It can also eliminate fatigue and help sleep.

Add vinegar to water

Treat foot odor → Get rid of foot odor, treat athlete's foot, promote blood circulation, and eliminate rheumatism.

Put ginger, tangerine peel and mint in water

Treat spleen and stomach deficiency → warm the spleen and stomach, and eliminate dampness.

Put peppercorns in water

Deodorizes and removes dampness, promotes the flow of qi and water, and supports yang energy.

Put white peony root, motherwort and angelica in water

Treat dysmenorrhea, which is generally caused by body cold or qi stagnation and blood stasis. White peony root removes yin qi, relieves abdominal pain, and unblocks blood vessels; Motherwort removes stasis and promotes new blood circulation, promotes blood circulation and regulates menstruation; Angelica sinensis replenishes blood, promotes blood circulation, regulates menstruation and relieves pain. It can also make the skin fair and rosy and improve the problem of cold hands and feet.

Put dried ginger in water

Treat rheumatic bone pain, fear of cold → Dried ginger warms the middle and dispels cold, restores the meridians and unclogs the meridians.

Put 10g of Astragalus, 10g of Radix Psoraleae, 10g of Herba Lycopodii, and 6g of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in water →Relieve diabetes (caused by Yin deficiency) → Peppercorns remove dampness; Astragalus replenishes Qi and strengthens the exterior; Radix Polygoni Multiflori can help drugs penetrate the skin and penetrate deep into the body to exert their medicinal effects.

3. Four taboos of foot soaking

First, avoid soaking your feet right after a meal or on an empty stomach. It should be taken half an hour after a meal.

Second, avoid too high water temperature. It should be 40-50 degrees.

Third, avoid taking too long. It should be about 20 minutes, until you sweat slightly.

Fourth, avoid taking your own initiative and using Chinese medicine randomly. Taboos for foot soaking: Women during menstruation or pregnancy; patients with bleeding symptoms should not soak their feet.

4. Foot bath

The upper body does not sweat, but the lower body sweats → kidney cold;

The upper body is hot but the lower body does not sweat → Qi deficiency.

Persisting in soaking your feet is very good for your body, and there is a lot to learn from it. Share this article with your friends so that they can also learn the basic knowledge of foot soaking.