[Yu Jian Traditional Chinese Medicine] Medical eyes watching "Water Margin": "Soaking your feet" is a lot of attention

"Water Margin" is one of the four major literary books. We can appreciate the historical stories described in it, and we can also glimpse one of the medical development of my country during the Northern Song Dynasty. At the same time, we can also harvest many traditional medicine knowledge and allusions in accidents.

The eighth round of the book "Forestry Head with Cangzhou Daolu Lu Zhishen Wild Pig Forest" section, Dong Chao and Xueba two officials received bribes. If they wanted to persecute Lin Chong, they would burn a pot of boiling soup and mention the future leaning in the future. In the foot basin, he shouted, "Linjiao, you also wash your feet and sleep well." Lin Chong made up, was hindered, and he couldn't. Xue Ba said: "I washed it for you." Lin Chong said busy: "Can't do it!" Xue Gubo: "Many of the passers -by." Lin Chong didn't know it was a plan, and only stretched out his feet. In the rolling soup. Lin Chong screamed, "Hey!" When he could shrink, he soaked his feet and swollen.

The "hundred boiling soup" mentioned here is boiling water. The ancients believed that burning the water multiple times can remove the impurities, so pay attention to "hundred boiling", and "hundred boiling soup" is also recorded as a drug record. In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Here is not how "Hundred Boiling Soup" is to cure the disease, but about "soaking feet".

"Soaking your feet" sounds simple, but there are actually a lot of attention. For example, what kind of medicinal materials are added when soaking and soaking, how long, how high the water temperature is.

1. The time for soaking feet

Soaking your feet generally choose to do it before going to bed at night. On the one hand, you can wash away the dirt, and the other is to relax your body and mind and help sleep.

Waste your feet before taking a bath or after taking a bath? My personal suggestion is that the feet that is not accompanied by the purpose of treatment can be reduced or paused in summer; feet with treatment purposes, such as dehumidification and cold, should be arranged after bathing, because dehumidification and cold -driven cold removal The soaking feet is often discharged from the cold and dampness of the body by sweating, and the pores are opened when sweating. If you take a bath in this state, you will give the outside world. Entering the body with a lower temperature, causing the consequences of things and wishes.

Some friends may feel that they are sweating after taking a bath, and they are too unhappy! Then I suggest that after you soak your feet, you must wait for the sweat on your body to take a bath, and the water temperature should not be lower than the body temperature.

2. What kind of medicinal materials are more appropriate to add when soaking your feet?

Vinegar has a bactericidal effect. Add white vinegar when soaking your feet, which helps remove the dead skin and keratin on your feet. It can prevent foot air, not easy to rot your feet, peel, and whitening skin care.

Ginger has the effect of driving the cold and warmth. Boving the feet with ginger slices can effectively prevent the development of cold and cold, and it also has the effect of preventing wind and cold.

Pepper can be warm, cold, and insecticidal and itching. Use a piece of cotton or gauze to wrap a pack of pepper, about 50 grams. Put it in the pot and cook it. After 20 minutes, you can use it to soak your feet to achieve the effect of driving cold, warmth, and blood. Use repeatedly many times.

3. How long does it take to soak your feet?

The specific time of each foot soaking should be gradually adjusted according to the age, gender, disease conditions, etc. of the foot soaking, and the feelings after soaking the feet. Overall, it should not be too long, soaking and cold -driven feet to sweat for about 20 minutes, but for patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis and deficient constitution, it is necessary to extend it appropriately.

4. What is the right water temperature of the feet?

Everyone needs to pay special attention here. The hotter soaking the feet, the better, the better, and soaking your feet is not equal to "hot feet". The appropriate soaking feet water temperature is about 40 degrees Celsius, and the skin is reddish after soaking. At the same time, you can massage your toes and your feet with your hands.

5. Other precautions

In the summer, avoid soaking your feet under full or hungry. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after meals to avoid dizziness and discomfort.

It is not advisable to soak feet with inflammation, skin diseases, trauma or skin burns.

Patients with venous veins in the lower limbs and venous venous thrombosis or diabetic feet should not soak their feet.

In addition, you must be careful about the choice of "foot bath". Do not follow the trend blindly, because everyone's physique is different, and the applicable medicinal materials are not the same. The wrong choice may not only have no good for themselves, but also disadvantages.

Source: Henan Health Central Plains Service Guarantee Center

Author: Book Xiaoyan

- END -