Foot bath is not just as simple as soaking feet in hot water, but based on the principle of Traditional Chinese Medicine, selecting suitable Chinese medicine foot bath formula, boiling the medicine with water, mixing the medicine juice with hot water, and then soaking the feet to stimulate the acupoints on the feet, allowing the ingredients of the medicine to penetrate into the meridians of the feet, circulate and act on the body, in order to prevent and improve diseases.
1. Expelling cold and warming the body
In summer, people often stay in air-conditioned rooms and eat unbalanced diets, preferring cold and heavy foods, resulting in excessive cold and dampness in the body. Regular foot baths can expel cold and dampness, prevent rheumatoid arthritis and joint pain caused by cold and dampness. In addition, during the cold winter weather, many people, especially weak women, tend to have cold hands and feet. Soaking the feet before bed can raise body temperature and warm the body.
2. Beauty and skin care
Foot baths can moisturize and nourish the internal organs with qi and blood, accelerate metabolism, and promote the excretion of toxins from the body, resulting in healthy and improved skin, and achieving the effect of beauty and rejuvenation.
3. Balancing yin and yang
Yang refers to the vital yang qi necessary for life activities, while yin refers to body fluids and other yin essence. Balanced yin and yang are essential for maintaining a healthy body. If yang is excessive, symptoms of yin deficiency may occur, most commonly manifested as excessive internal heat; if yin is excessive and yang is weak, symptoms of yang deficiency may occur, such as aversion to cold and pale complexion. Regular foot baths help maintain the balance and coordination of various organ functions in the body, thus balancing yin and yang and promoting health.
4. Promoting blood circulation and removing stasis
Meridians have the functions of circulating qi and blood, nourishing the whole body, resisting external pathogens, and defending the body. The meridians are connected to the organs. Regular foot baths stimulate the meridians in the feet, promote the coordination of organ functions, eliminate waste accumulation in the body, and make the circulation of qi and blood smoother. In addition, people who often stand for long periods of time are prone to lower limb varicose veins. Foot baths can accelerate blood circulation in the legs, allowing venous blood to flow back in a timely manner, reduce venous congestion in the legs, and prevent lower limb varicose veins.
5. Nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the body
From 7 pm to 9 pm is the weakest time for the qi and blood of the kidney meridian. Taking foot baths during this time can promote the flow of qi and blood towards the kidney meridian, nourishing and strengthening the kidneys. When the qi and blood of the kidney meridian are sufficient, the kidney qi will naturally be strong, which means that the vitality of the person will be stronger and the body will be stronger.
6. Regulating the organs
The feet are an important area for the circulation of meridians in the body, and different meridians correspond to different organs. In addition, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are corresponding reflex zones of various organs on the feet. Regular foot baths can stimulate the reflex zones and meridians on the feet, regulate and improve the functions of various organs, and coordinate the functions of the organs.
7. Promoting brain function
The spine belongs to the Du meridian, which contains the spinal cord and directly connects to the brain. The Kidney meridian of the Foot Shaoyin "runs obliquely to the foot center and penetrates the spine internally", indicating that the foot center is connected to the brain through meridians. Regular foot baths, especially stimulating the foot center, can improve brain function, promote mental alertness, and enhance brain health and intelligence.
8. Strengthening the body and expelling pathogenic factors
Regular foot baths can not only warm and invigorate the body, but also clear heat and dampness. For example, during foot baths, the stimulation of water temperature and the penetration of medicine can act on the reflex zones of the lymphatic system, clearing heat and toxins, reducing redness, swelling, and ulcers caused by damp-heat.
9. Invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach
When you have no appetite, soaking your feet appropriately with corresponding medicinal formulas, and massaging the reflex zones of the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, and the reflex zones of the stomach, duodenum, small intestine, and large intestine can improve appetite, promote digestion, and relieve constipation, rough skin, and acne caused by weak spleen and stomach function.
10. Regulating the liver and relieving depression
Regular foot baths can help relax nerves, relieve and release stress, and prevent liver qi stagnation. At the same time, foot baths can stimulate the reflex zones of the liver meridian, as well as the reflex zones of the brain, cerebellum, brain stem, and parathyroid gland, relieving discomfort caused by liver qi stagnation, such as insomnia, depression, and neurasthenia.
11. Warming the body for pain relief
For women who have cold limbs, blood stasis dysmenorrhea, and cold-induced stomach pain, foot baths are the most suitable way to maintain health. Regular foot baths can promote blood circulation and metabolism by stimulating water temperature, thereby increasing body temperature. In addition, foot baths can improve blood circulation, warm the kidneys, assist yang, and have a relieving effect on menstrual pain and cold-induced stomach pain.
12. Relaxing the body and mind
I believe many people have experienced this feeling. After a day of hard work, the body is tired and the mind is exhausted. At this time, soaking your feet can make you feel relaxed due to the warm stimulation of the water. If combined with the aroma of medicine, it can stimulate the brain and relieve fatigue. Therefore, foot baths have become an important way of leisure for modern people.
13. Improving blood circulation
Research has found that soaking feet in water at around 40℃ for 30 minutes can increase the blood flow in the surrounding blood vessels by 10-15 times in a healthy person. It can be seen that regular foot baths can stimulate the blood vessels in the feet, soften the blood vessels, increase vascular elasticity, and raise skin temperature, thereby promoting blood circulation in the feet and the whole body, reducing blood clotting, and maintaining smooth blood flow, which is very beneficial for health.
14. Promoting metabolism
Regular foot baths can promote blood circulation. The increased blood circulation can regulate the endocrine function of various organs, promote the secretion of thyroid hormones and adrenaline by the adrenal glands, etc. These hormones have a promoting effect on the body's metabolism.
15. Assisting in the treatment of diseases
The drugs in the foot bath formula can penetrate the skin, circulate through the blood circulation to the whole body, and when the effective ingredients of the drugs are absorbed by the body, they can have a therapeutic effect on the corresponding diseases.
Foot baths are an important part of medicinal baths, and throughout history, there are many stories of famous people using foot baths for health maintenance, which shows the important role of foot baths in health maintenance.
