What is the reason for dry heel?

I am a 23-year-old youth. My heel will crack in autumn. It seems that this kind of thing happens not in summer, but in winter. In severe cases, it will crack, bleed and be very painful.

Explanation:

Heel chapped is mainly due to poor qi and blood, local skin loses nutrition, leading to roughness, hypertrophy or leather change. Pay attention to nourishing blood and activating blood, healing sores and promoting granulation during treatment.

Differentiation of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine

Heel belongs to kidney meridian. If there are repeated chaps and even aches and pains here, it will indirectly "warn" us of insufficient kidney meridian.

What is the reason for dry heel?

Weather factors: cold weather, poor blood circulation, reduced skin elasticity, easy to cause foot crack. It is easy to appear during the season change. Physiological aging: the elderly have slow metabolism, more dead cells, less new cells, poor skin elasticity, and are prone to foot cracks. Skin diseases: hereditary keratin dystrophy skin diseases (such as ichthyosis) and diseases with abnormal keratin metabolism (such as chronic eczema) cause foot crack. Nutritional factors: Lack of vitamin A and vitamin E can lead to cracked feet. Fungal infection: such as beriberi, tinea pedis, tinea pedis.

The heel cracked and scabbed, and it took 3 strokes to recover.

Step 1: Soak your feet in warm water, and don't soak your feet for too long (just control it at 15-25 minutes).

Step 2: Directly apply [Plum] Beining, a herbal preparation, after soaking feet. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and tonifying deficiency, nourishing yin and activating blood circulation, dispelling cold and dredging collaterals, moistening skin and softening cutin, and professionally solves the problems of dryness, roughness, chapped hands, occupational chapped hands and chilblain caused by wind-cold, dryness, chemical and physical stimulation, and reduced oil secretion of the elderly, which are found on the Internet and mobile phones. Now, there is a heel pad.

Step 3: Put on heels, put on socks, sleep all night, get up the next day, and you will find it much better.

Traditional Chinese medicine prescription

External use: Rhizoma Bletillae and Radix Notoginseng.

Usage: 3 parts of Bletilla striata and 3 parts of Panax notoginseng 1 part are ground into powder, and the finer the powder, the better; Wash your feet before use, mix the evenly mixed powder with appropriate amount of water, and finally apply it to the chapped part; Seal with plastic wrap; Stay for about 2-3 hours and wash off before going to bed; It can be used once a day, which is good for relieving pain and stopping bleeding.

Recommended 1 methods for daily maintenance of "kidney qi"

Fast rise and slight fall: flip the heel

Exercise: keep your body at attention, your lips and teeth slightly closed, your feet together, and your hands on your sides; Slowly stand on tiptoe, support the ground tightly with tiptoe, then drop the center of gravity from tiptoe to forefoot, relax your body, and finally make a free fall, so that your heel touches the ground gently, resulting in a gentle vibration, which will be transmitted to the upper body along your legs. Repeat it 20~30 times, and the whole body will feel very comfortable.

Efficacy: Heel pain can supplement kidney qi and promote kidney qi's function of activating yang and benefiting qi. It is helpful for people with kidney-qi deficiency and kidney-yang deficiency, and can improve symptoms such as chills, cold pain in heels and edema of lower limbs.

Matters needing attention

In addition to timely treatment, preventive health care is very important at ordinary times, especially for some patients with other diseases, such as tinea and keratosis, we should also actively treat them to prevent the aggravation of various complications.