3. Angelica 15 grams, safflower, sumu, eupatorium, herba siegesbeckiae, herb of dicranopteris, and scutellaria. The efficacy of herba siegesbeckiae: dispelling wind and cold, removing dampness and reducing swelling, relaxing tendons and activating blood circulation. Treating wind-cold-damp arthralgia, joint soreness, skin numbness, fragility of the four limbs, edema, contusion and trauma. The efficacy of scutellaria: purging actual fire, removing damp-heat, stopping bleeding, and stabilizing fetus. Treating high fever with thirst, lung heat cough, damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice, heat dysuria, hematemesis, epistaxis, menorrhagia, metrostaxis, red swollen eyes, unstable fetus, carbuncle and boil. A folk song says: "Wash feet in spring, raising yang and preventing prolapse; wash feet in summer, eliminating summer heat and dampness; wash feet in autumn, moistening lungs and intestines; wash feet in winter, warming dantian." According to TCM, "cold comes from feet, dampness enters from below, disease invades from below." Ancient health preservation experts proposed a new slogan "Preventing diseases in all four seasons, starting from feet." In the south, the climate is humid, especially in summer, people easily become irritable and eat more cool things. Washing feet with hot water before sleeping can effectively eliminate summer heat and dampness, improve sleep quality. The soaking time should be controlled within half an hour, and slightly sweating is enough. You can also put some smooth small pebbles in the basin, which can have a massage effect and should be good. Many people like to rinse their feet with cold water in summer, thinking that it can lower temperature and eliminate summer heat, which feels comfortable. Actually, this is not good for the blood qi circulation of the lower limbs, and long-term doing so is harmful to health and should be avoided.
1. "Six-flavor family health foot-soaking prescription" includes: angelica 15 grams, safflower, sumu, eupatorium, rehmannia, and cinnamon twig each 10 grams.
6. Hot salt water foot soak: 1. Can prevent athlete's foot. 2. Can help sleep and anti-aging. 3. Can prevent colds: when the soles are warmed, it will cause a reflex that leads to the rise and fall of the local temperature of the upper respiratory tract and the weakening and strengthening of resistance, hence the saying "wash face with cold water, brush teeth with warm water, wash feet with hot water." Often washing feet with salt water and massaging acupoints such as Yongquan can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and anti-aging, make feet smooth and neat, prevent colds, even enhance memory, and make the mind feel light.
Below begins the introduction of "six treasures for foot soaking". Angelica 15 grams, safflower, sumu, eupatorium, rehmannia each 10 grams, and fine cinnamon 6 grams. This prescription has the effect of accelerating blood circulation, relaxing tendons and activating blood circulation, and eliminating fatigue. It can make people feel relaxed and happy, achieve the purpose of health preservation, improve life quality, and reduce the occurrence of diseases.
Add ginger to treat insomnia: take 50 grams of ginger (cut into slices), add them to a half basin of water and boil, then add a spoon of vinegar. When the water temperature is suitable, soak your feet for 30 minutes, which can treat insomnia. Warm spleen and stomach: use 100 grams of ginger, 20 grams of aged tangerine peel, and 30 grams of mint to boil water for foot soaking, which can warm spleen and stomach, remove dampness, and relieve fatigue. Prevent and treat varicose veins of the lower extremities: standing for a long time is prone to varicose veins of the lower extremities. Soaking feet with ginger decoction can accelerate leg blood circulation, allowing venous blood in the legs to flow back to the heart in time, which is beneficial to reduce venous stasis in the legs, prevent and treat varicose veins of the lower extremities. It also has preventive and therapeutic effects on dizziness, insomnia, anorexia, dark complexion, fatigue, hypertension, constipation, etc.
Add salt to prevent athlete's foot: often soaking feet in salt water can not only kill bacteria and disinfect, prevent the occurrence of athlete's foot, but also make feet smooth and neat. Help sleep and anti-aging: often soaking feet in salt water, and massaging acupoints such as Yongquan, can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and anti-aging. Prevent colds: "wash face with cold water, brush teeth with warm water, wash feet with hot water," often soaking feet in salt water can not only prevent colds, but also enhance memory, making the mind feel light. The method is: add a small half spoon of salt to a half basin of hot water, the water temperature can be higher, if there is a wound on the foot, do not add salt.
Add alcohol to promote blood circulation: add a bottle of rice wine or other alcohol to warm water, which can promote blood circulation. Remove foot odor: take 15 grams of pueraria root, grind it into fine powder, add 15 grams of white wine, then add appropriate amount of water, boil and soak feet for 20 minutes. Do it once a day, continue soaking for a week. Relieve fatigue: every night before going to bed, first soak your feet in half a basin of hot water with a little white wine for 15 minutes, then take a little safflower oil and apply it to the soles of the feet, gently scrape the bottom of the foot 50-100 times, then scrape the five toes and the top of the foot 50-100 times, then use both hands to rub the top of the foot until the soles of the feet are warm, the entire scraping process should be controlled within 15-20 minutes.
Add vinegar to moisturize skin: when soaking feet, add 100-150 grams of rice vinegar or aged vinegar to the water, which is beneficial to health. Soaking feet in vinegar can not only increase skin elasticity, make the skin smooth, but also remove rheumatism, improve cold intolerance and other discomfort symptoms. Eliminate fatigue: vinegar can accelerate human blood circulation, improve the oxygen-carrying capacity of hemoglobin, improve the hypoxic condition of various parts of the body caused by fatigue, enhance the metabolism of various systems, facilitate the discharge of carbon dioxide and waste gas in the body, thus relax the body and eliminate fatigue. Treat sleep disorders: soaking feet in vinegar for half an hour every day can coordinate the excitation level of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, regulate, comb, and relax tense nerves, coordinate meridian qi and blood, balance yin and yang. Long-term adherence can greatly improve sleep quality. Strengthen the body: the foot is the root of a person, vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of the foot, enhance blood circulation, activate and strengthen organ function, clear blood garbage in the human body, and improve many chronic diseases.
Add lemon to prevent colds: add two slices of lemon to warm water, after soaking feet, you can feel refreshed and prevent colds. Detoxify and reduce swelling: lemons have the effect of detoxifying and reducing swelling. After walking a lot and feeling tired in the feet, you can try soaking your feet in lemon water or using lemon essential oil. Soften the stratum corneum: when soaking feet, add some lemon juice or lemon peel to the water. The water must cover the ankle joint, and soaking for 10 minutes is appropriate. After soaking, use lemon peel to scrub your feet to soften the stratum corneum. Especially the skin of the heel, it must be well softened.
Add Sichuan pepper: Sichuan pepper belongs to the category of cold-dispelling drugs in Chinese medicine. It can dispel internal cold and assist yang energy, therefore it is good at dispersing yin-cold qi, assisting insufficient yuan yang, promoting qi and diuresis. In addition, Sichuan pepper also has the effects of sterilization, disinfection, analgesia, antipruritic, and swelling reduction. The method is: grab a handful of Sichuan pepper, wrap it in gauze and put it in a casserole, add water to boil and pour it into a basin. First fumigate the feet, then soak the feet when the water temperature is suitable. It can prevent and treat foot odor, foot sweat, and athlete's foot.
Add safflower: safflower can activate blood and resolve stasis. Buy 50 grams of safflower from the pharmacy and divide it into 10 portions. Take one portion, wrap it in gauze, boil it in water, then add a spoon of salt, first fumigate the feet and then soak the feet. It can treat waist pain, and the water for soaking feet must cover the ankles. Hypertension - foot bath formula: Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae 30 grams, Rhizoma Chuanxiong 30 grams, Herba Gastrodiae 10 grams, Uncariae Ramulus 10 grams, Prunella Vulgaris 10 grams, Evodiae Fructus 10 grams, Cortex Cinnamomi 10 grams. Cold-induced cough formula: Artemisiae Folium 50 grams. Chilblain formula: 1. Citrus Peel 2 pieces 2. Portulaca Oleracea 50 grams 3. Cinnamon Bark 30 grams (choose any one). Joint pain formula: Ephedra Herb 15 grams, Radix et Rhizoma Notopterygii 15 grams, Radix et Rhizoma Angelicae Pubescentis 15 grams, Cinnamon Twig 15 grams, Artemisiae Folium 15 grams, Safflower 10 grams, Asarum 10 grams. Insomnia formula: Prunella Vulgaris 30 grams, Mulberry Branch 20 grams, Cinnamon Twig 20 grams, White Peony Root 20 grams. Precautions for foot baths: 1. Temperature is moderate (best 40-45 degrees) 2. Time is 30-40 minutes 3. Give appropriate physical stimulation, such as massage, foot rubbing, etc., for better results 4. Do not take foot baths 30 minutes before or after meals 5. If blisters form on the feet or the skin turns red and itches due to allergic reactions, stop using the medication 6. Do not ingest orally 7. If you have athlete's foot, prevent cross-infection People unsuitable for foot baths: 1. Severe heart disease patients 2. Stroke patients who have not recovered 3. Inflammation, skin disease, trauma or scald on the feet 4. Hemorrhagic diseases, septicemia patients 5. Severe thrombosis patients 6. Pregnant women 7. People sensitive to temperature (control the temperature to avoid burns) "Six-flavor family health foot-soaking prescription" has the effect of accelerating blood circulation, relaxing tendons and activating blood circulation, eliminating fatigue. It can make people feel relaxed and happy, achieving the purpose of health preservation, improving life quality, and reducing the occurrence of diseases. 2. Angelica 15 grams, safflower, sumu, eupatorium, raw rehmannia each 10 grams, and fine cinnamon 6 grams. The efficacy of fine cinnamon: dispelling wind, dispersing cold, promoting diuresis, opening orifices. Treating wind-cold headache, nasal sinusitis, toothache, phlegm drink cough, rheumatism arthralgia. 4. Hypertension: Uncariae Ramulus 40 grams, Prunella Vulgaris 30 grams, Mulberry Leaf 20 grams, Chrysanthemum Flower 20 grams. The efficacy of Uncariae Ramulus: clearing heat and calming liver, extinguishing wind and stopping convulsion. Treating children's convulsions, adults' high blood pressure, dizziness, vertigo, women's eclampsia. The efficacy of Prunella Vulgaris: clearing liver, dispersing nodules. Treating tuberculosis, thyroid tumor, breast abscess, breast cancer, night eye pain, photophobia and tearing, head and eye dizziness, facial paralysis, muscle and bone pain, pulmonary tuberculosis, acute icteric infectious hepatitis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea. The function of mulberry leaf: dispelling wind and clearing heat, cooling blood and brightening eyes. Treating wind-warmth fever, headache, red eyes, thirst, lung-heat cough, wind-bi syndrome, rash, elephantiasis of the lower limbs. The efficacy of chrysanthemum: dispersing wind, clearing heat, brightening eyes, detoxifying. Treating headache, dizziness, red eyes, chest irritability, carbuncle, swelling poison. For cardiovascular patients, when soaking feet, it is best to submerge the calf, "the calf is the second heart of the human body," which can greatly promote the effect of human blood circulation. The method of salt water foot washing is generally adding half a teaspoon of salt to a half basin of hot water, the water temperature can be higher, but if there is a wound on the foot, the salt water foot washing should be postponed, and the hot water foot soaking should be used instead. 5. Insomnia: Magnetite 60 grams, Chrysanthemum 20 grams, Scutellaria 15 grams, Night Twining Vine 30 grams. The efficacy of magnetite: calming yang and receiving qi, calming shock and soothing spirit. Treating vertigo, tinnitus and deafness, virtual panting, convulsions, palpitations. The efficacy of night twining vine: nourishing heart, soothing spirit, unblocking collaterals, dispelling wind. Treating insomnia, overwork, excessive sweating, blood deficiency body pain, carbuncle, lymphadenopathy, wind rash scabies. According to doctors, Angelica is called the "blood replenishing holy drug", sweet, pungent, warm, entering the liver, heart, and spleen meridians, having the effects of replenishing blood and regulating menstruation, activating blood and relieving pain, moistening intestines and promoting defecation, mainly treating blood deficiency and blood stasis, cold-deficiency abdominal pain, contusions, wind-cold arthralgia, blood deficiency intestinal dryness constipation, etc. The indispensable blood-activating drug for health preservation is safflower, pungent, warm, entering the heart and liver meridians, having the effects of activating blood and unblocking menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. The other two blood-activating drugs, sumu and eupatorium, are very helpful. Sumu is sweet, salty, pungent, and neutral, entering the heart and liver meridians, having the effects of activating blood and healing injuries, removing blood stasis and unblocking menstruation; Eupatorium is bitter and pungent, slightly warm, entering the liver and spleen meridians, having the effects of activating blood and regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and eliminating boils, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. The heat-clearing and blood-cooling drug raw rehmannia is sweet, bitter, and cold, entering the heart, liver, and kidney meridians, having the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and generating body fluid. The wind-dispelling and cold-scattering drug cinnamon twig is pungent, sweet, and warm, entering the heart, lung, and bladder meridians, having the effects of sweating and resolving muscles, warming and unblocking meridians, assisting yang and transforming qi.