Foot massage bucket - the role and taboo of foot soaking
The feet are the base of yin blood, and the three yin meridians are gathered here: the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, the foot Taiyin spleen meridian, and the foot Que Yin liver meridian. The kidney produces blood, the liver stores blood, and the spleen controls blood.
1. Why can foot soaking at night help replenish blood?
Blood deficiency, blood stasis → cold hands and feet, dull tongue, spots on the face, tightness of the heart, suffocation, breathlessness , blood circulation, blood circulation, and blood, regulating blood), promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; dredging the three yin meridians of kidney, liver and spleen.
2. Tips for soaking feet
Soak feet in spring, open the yang and solidify; soak feet in the sky, remove dampness and remove heat; soak feet in autumn, clear the intestines and moisten the lungs; soak feet in winter, warm the dantian.
3. Foot foam material
Putting salt in the water → constipation → can also eliminate fatigue and help sleep. Put vinegar in water → foot odor → remove foot odor, prevent beriberi, promote blood circulation, and eliminate rheumatism. Put ginger, tangerine peel, mint in the water → deficiency of the spleen and stomach → warm the spleen and stomach, and remove dampness. Put prickly ash in the water → deodorize and remove dampness, invigorate qi and move water, and help yang qi. Put white peony root, motherwort, angelica in water → dysmenorrhea → dysmenorrhea is generally caused by body cold or qi stagnation and blood stasis, white peony root removes yin, eliminates abdominal pain, smoothes blood vessels, motherwort removes blood stasis and regenerates, activates blood and regulates menstruation; Angelica tonifies blood and activates blood, regulates menstruation and relieves pain , It can also make the skin fair and ruddy, and improve the problem of cold hands and feet. Put dry ginger in water - rheumatism and bone pain, fear of cold and cold → dry ginger warms the middle to dispel cold, and restores Yang to clear the pulse. Put 10 grams of Astragalus, 10 grams of Tougucao, 10 grams of Shenjincao, and 6 grams of Chinese prickly ash in the water → diabetes (due to yin deficiency) → Chinese prickly ash to remove dampness; Astragalus tonifies qi and solidifies the surface; Tougucao can help drugs penetrate deep into the skin body, exert its medicinal power.
4. It is taboo to soak your feet
Avoid soaking just after eating or on an empty stomach, half an hour after eating; avoid water temperature that is too high, should be 40-50 degrees; avoid prolonged time. It should be about 20 minutes, and it is enough to sweat slightly; avoid making your own decisions, and place Chinese medicine indiscriminately; women during menstruation or pregnancy, and patients with bleeding symptoms should not soak their feet.