What are the benefits of soaking feet in autumn?

It's cool in autumn, and it's a good season to soak your feet. So what's the best time to soak your feet in autumn? What are the benefits? The following are the benefits of soaking feet in autumn. Welcome to reading.

Benefits of soaking feet in autumn

1, regulating blood pressure

Chinese medicine believes that the five internal organs of the human body have corresponding projections on the feet. Foot is the starting point of Yin San Meridian of Foot and the end point of foot bath of Sanyang Meridian of Foot. There are more than 60 acupoints below ankle joint.

But soaking feet is not just a matter of soaking, but also depends on the duration and water temperature. The water temperature of 40℃ is the best, and it is generally better not to burn your hands. The best time to soak your feet is half an hour. Generally, you can have a good sleep and keep warm by soaking your feet 1 hour before going to bed.

2, eliminate fatigue

The biggest function of foot bath is to eliminate fatigue. The ancients have already summed up from practice that hot water foot bath can eliminate fatigue.

3. Promote metabolism

Foot bath can promote blood circulation of feet and whole body. Due to the increase of blood circulation, it can regulate the functions of various endocrine glands and promote the secretion of various hormones, such as thyroid hormone secreted by the thyroid gland and adrenaline secreted by the adrenal gland, which can promote metabolism.

4. Help blood circulation

Many people feel cold in autumn and winter. Actually, it's poor blood circulation. Soaking feet with hot water can promote blood circulation, relieve fatigue and improve sleep. In addition, in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, soaking feet is also good for other systemic diseases, such as rheumatism, arthritis, colds and other common diseases. As long as you insist on soaking your feet every day, you can play a health care role in slowing down symptoms.

5, cure insomnia

Sleep disturbance is very painful, which not only leads to listlessness during the day, but also leads to a decline in physical condition. Foot bath is recommended to improve the quality of sleep. Adding pebbles to grind feet can improve the effect of foot bath, promote the connection of human blood vessels, achieve the effects of communicating heart and kidney, soothing liver and regulating qi, invigorating spleen and qi, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and better improve sleep. Adding pebbles to the foot bath can play a role similar to acupuncture. Soaking feet before going to bed, insomnia is not troublesome.

Method of soaking feet

1, salt in water

Regulating constipation can also eliminate fatigue and help sleep.

Step 2 put vinegar in water

Treat beriberi and remove foot odor.

3. Put ginger, dried tangerine peel and mint in water.

Warming the spleen and stomach and eliminating dampness.

Step 4 put dried ginger in water

Dried ginger warms the middle warmer, dispels cold, channels collaterals, regulates rheumatic bone pain, and is afraid of cold.

Step 5 put pepper in water

Deodorizing and eliminating dampness, benefiting qi and benefiting water, and supporting Yang Qi.

6. Put the safflower in the water

Safflower is pungent and warm, belonging to the liver meridian and pericardial meridian, which has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is helpful to dredge the three yin meridians of kidney, liver and spleen.

7. Put Radix Paeoniae Alba, Herba Leonuri and Radix Angelicae Sinensis into water.

Adjust dysmenorrhea. Dysmenorrhea is generally caused by body cold or qi stagnation and blood stasis, while Paeonia lactiflora can remove yin, stop abdominal pain and dredge blood vessels; Motherwort removes blood stasis and promotes regeneration, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation; Angelica sinensis can replenish blood, promote blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain. It can also make the face white and rosy and improve the problem of cold hands and feet.

8. Put Radix Astragali10g, Caulis et Folium Gaultheriae Yunnanensis10g, Herba Lycopodii10g and Fructus Zanthoxyli 6g into water.

Relieve diabetes caused by yin deficiency. Zanthoxylum bungeanum to eliminate dampness; Astragalus membranaceus strengthens qi and consolidates exterior; Caulis et Folium Gaultheriae Yunnanensis can help drugs penetrate into the body through the panel and exert their efficacy.

minimum duration

"Soak your feet in spring and the sun will rise; Soaking feet in summer can clear away heat and damp; Soak your feet in autumn, moisten your lungs and intestines; Soak your feet in winter and your abdomen is warm. " It can be seen that soaking feet all year round has its own advantages.

There are many benefits of soaking feet, which can improve sleep, speed up blood circulation, relax body and mind, and relieve headaches. And one of the most important functions is to nourish the liver and tonify the kidney. After a hard day's work, the body is tired, and the liver and kidney of the human body need special care. It's comfortable to soak in a pot of hot water.

The most suitable time for nourishing liver and kidney is around 9 pm. At this time, when the human kidney meridian is the weakest, the heat of water can nourish the kidney meridian by activating blood. Yongquan point on foot is especially helpful to kidney meridian after being heated by hot water, which can eliminate fatigue and effectively maintain liver and kidney.

It is best to soak your feet in autumn at 9: 00 ~ 10: 00 pm, and the time should not be too long *** 15~20 minutes. The frail old people need to soak their feet for a short time, sweating slightly, and sweating too much is easy to collapse. After soaking your feet, I suggest you stop doing other activities and fall asleep every few minutes, which is better for tonifying the kidney.

Office workers are full of energy in the morning! The method of washing feet in the morning is very simple, the water temperature is controlled at about 40℃, and it is appropriate to be comfortable and not hot, and soak for about 5~ 10 minutes. The Yongquan points of the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of both hands are about 1 minute, and then the gap between the toes of both feet is about half a minute. In order to keep the water temperature, appropriate amount of hot water can be added several times, and repeated for 3~5 times.

The best water temperature for soaking feet is 40 to 50 degrees Celsius. It needs to be hot, but not very hot. Feel the temperature with your feet. If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels on the feet will easily expand excessively, and the blood in the body will flow more to the lower limbs, which will easily lead to insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney, which is not good for the body. Diabetic patients and users of sensitive panels should be especially careful. Too hot water can easily lead to burns and even very serious consequences.

Not everyone is suitable for soaking feet. People with hot constitution are mainly prone to get angry, constipation, fear of heat, sores on the mouth and tongue, and red and yellow urine. It is not suitable for soaking feet, otherwise it will add fuel to the fire.

Traditional Chinese medicine formula

Foot bath also pays attention to syndrome differentiation. According to different constitutions, drugs such as pungent warming, dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and dampness, and detoxifying can be added to enhance the curative effect. One person should be one side, not a thousand people.

People who are afraid of cold and easy to get cold hands and feet can soak their feet with ginger. Take15-30g of ginger * * * about half a slice of ginger * * * with the same size, pat it flat, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot, and boil it in hot water for about 10 minute. After cooking, pour out all the Jiang Shui and add appropriate amount of cold water to about 40℃. When soaking your feet, don't let the water pass over your ankles. You'd better rub your feet when soaking.

Soaking feet with wormwood can also improve lung function, which is very beneficial to people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white sputum. The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that with ginger. Generally, take 30-50g * * * handfuls of dried wormwood and soak your feet with boiling water. The cooking method is the same as above.

People suffering from wind-cold and cold should soak their feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi 15g, Folium Perillae 15g, Herba Ephedrae 5g, and 5 slices of ginger to reduce sweating. Patients with dysmenorrhea use 50 grams of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, 0/0 grams of Ramulus Cinnamomi/KLOC-,0/4 grams of Linderae, and 0/5 grams of Rhizoma Cyperi/KLOC-to soak their feet.

Patients with diabetic foot should use frankincense 15g, myrrh 15g, safflower 10g, lignum sappan 20g, folium artemisiae argyi 25g and clove 10g to soak their feet. Hypertensive patients can use magnet 60g, Prunella vulgaris 15g, Ramulus Mori 15g, Uncaria 30g, Semen Cassiae 15g and Achyranthes bidentata 15g.

It is best to use wooden pots or porcelain-lined pots instead of metal pots such as copper pots for soaking feet of traditional Chinese medicine, because the chemical composition in such pots is unstable and it is easy to react with tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine to generate harmful substances such as iron tannic acid, which greatly reduces the curative effect of drugs.