It hurts to stand for a long time shopping! Pressing Yongquan point helps relieve pain.

With the Lunar New Year approaching, people are busy shopping for new year's goods and cleaning. However, many people who have been standing for a long time, such as cabinet sisters and salespeople, have to stand for more than 1 hours a day with their rising performance before the New Year, which makes their feet ache and increases the risk of plantar fasciitis. Chinese medicine practitioners pointed out that Chinese medicine believes that plantar fasciitis is related to kidney deficiency, which can be improved by Chinese medicine, or when foot pain occurs, pressing Yongquan point on the foot can help relieve it. Shopping for a long time often makes people's legs sore and numb. Chinese medicine practitioners suggest that Yongquan point can be pressed to relieve foot pain.

Yongquan point helps to relieve foot pain

Lin Shungu, a Chinese medicine practitioner in Renai Hospital of North United Hospital, pointed out that plantar fasciitis is related to the degeneration of fascia structure, and people who are overweight, stand for a long time, exercise excessively and have abnormal foot structure are at higher risk. Patients usually get out of bed in the morning, and their heels are prone to severe pain, and their symptoms are easy to get worse if they stand for too long. Although it can temporarily relieve symptoms after rest, it will cause severe pain at the moment of getting up and standing. In addition to reducing standing at ordinary times, when foot pain occurs, you can press Yongquan point as a health care.

Dr. Lin Shungu mentioned that Yongquan point is located in the center of plantar fascia, at the midpoint of herringbone lines on the soles of feet, directly below the line between the second and third toes of the soles of feet, and pressing the soles of feet from top to bottom about one third, which has the function of strengthening bones and muscles and lowering blood pressure, and has the function of assisting in adjusting physique. People can rub it with their thumbs in turn at home at ordinary times, which can moderately relieve foot pain and prevent plantar fasciitis. Yongquan point is located in the center of plantar fascia, which can effectively relieve foot pain. (Photography/Huang Zhiwen)

Foot-fixing Chinese medicines: Eucommia ulmoides, Cistanche deserticola and Morinda officinalis

In addition, leg protection can help foot-fixing, and medicated diet can also help. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the aging and degeneration of bones and muscles are mostly related to kidney deficiency, and kidney tonics can help improve it. Traditional Chinese medicines such as Eucommia ulmoides, Dipsacus aspergillus, Taxilli, Radix Astragali, Dioscorea opposita and Achyranthes bidentata can tonify kidney qi. Cornus officinalis, Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi and Polygoni Multiflori Radix nourish kidney yin; Curculigo, Herba Epimedii, etc. can be used for people with deficiency and cold constitution, but the medication should not be too hot and dry.

Dr. Lin Shungu suggested that Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., Cistanche deserticola and Morinda officinalis how can be prepared, and appropriate ingredients can be added to help strengthen leg muscles. The specific method is to wash Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., Cistanche deserticola Oliv. and Morinda Officinalis Oliv. and put them into gauze bags, and prepare 1 kg of chicken or ribs, wash them and cut them into pieces, and stew them with the medicinal materials for half an hour, once every three days for 15 days.