Foot soak is a very not much way to maintain health, if in the foot soak water properly add some herbs, for some disease symptoms relief is also helpful, like diabetes patients, in the foot soak can use some herbal formula, to improve the symptoms of diabetes. Here are a few herbal remedies recommended for diabetic foot soaks.
Diabetes treatment commonly used herbal medicine recommended
Astragalus
Astragalus is warm in nature, sweet in taste, has the effect of tonifying the qi and fixing the surface, stopping sweating and detoxifying the body, generating muscle, diuretic and reducing swelling.
Astragalus can increase the body's sensitivity to insulin and lower blood glucose by various means, in addition to improving immunity, strengthening the heart, diuretic, lowering blood pressure, protecting the liver, dilating blood vessels, improving blood circulation and reducing proteinuria, which is especially suitable for the treatment of diabetes and its complications.
Dendrobium
Dendrobium is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, and belongs to the stomach and kidney meridian. It has the effect of nourishing Yin and clearing heat, nourishing the stomach and producing fluid, moistening the lung and relieving cough, benefiting the kidney and brightening the eyes.
Chinese medicine believes that the cause of diabetes is mainly due to yin deficiency, dry heat, qi and yin deficiency, blood stasis, spleen qi weakness, liver depression and qi stagnation, etc. Generally, diabetes belongs to the category of yin deficiency. Dendrobium has a good therapeutic effect on yin deficiency diabetes, and can improve and eliminate the phenomenon of diabetic patients' excessive drinking, polyphagia, polyuria, fatigue, and emaciation, and has the effect of controlling blood sugar stability.
Radix Rehmanniae
Dihuang is cold in nature, sweet in taste, belongs to the heart and kidney meridians, has the function of clearing heat and cooling the blood, nourishing yin and generating fluid.
Raw Dihuang has a slight hypoglycemic effect and can be used for diabetic patients. It can enhance the immune function of the body, especially for those with low immune function.
Mai Dong
Mai Dong is sweet in taste, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature, enters the heart, lung and stomach meridians, has the effect of strengthening yin and benefiting essence, generating pulse and protecting the spirit, generating fluid and regulating the middle, clearing the heart and removing annoyance, settling asthma and tranquilizing coughs, and prolonging life.
It has a stimulating effect on pancreatic islet cells, causing blood glucose to drop, and has a significant effect on the treatment of diabetes.
Astragalus, cinnamon sticks and hyssop water foot soak
Recipe: 30 grams of raw astragalus, 50 grams of cinnamon stick, 40 grams of Chuanxiu Knee, 15 grams of Chuanxiong.
Method: Put the four herbs into a pot, add water and boil for 30 minutes, remove the dregs and take the juice, and pour the 50°C hot water into the foot soaker, the liquid must be dipped to the knee joint, soak the sick foot for 30 minutes every night, 20 days as a course of treatment.
Efficacy: This formula has the effect of moving qi and relieving pain, activating blood circulation, and is suitable for people with early diabetic foot, lower limb pain and abnormal sensation.
Foot soak with Phellodendron
Recipe: Huang Bai, bitter ginseng 30 grams each, Di Long 60 grams, leech 20 grams, Chuanxiong 15 grams.
Directions: Put the five herbs into a pot, add water and boil for 30 minutes, remove the dregs and take the juice, pour it into the foot soaker together with 50°C hot water, the liquid must be dipped to the knee joint, soak the sick foot for 30 minutes every night, 20 days as a course of treatment.
Efficacy: This formula has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, activating blood circulation and relieving pain, and is suitable for those with lower limb pain and limping in the early stage of diabetic foot.
Radix Rehmanniae Danpi Water Foot Soak
Recipe: Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Phellodendron, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Dampi, Yam, Poria, Zedoary, Pueraria Mirifica, 15 grams each, 10 grams of cinnamon, 30 grams of Xian Ling Spleen.
Directions: Soak the feet in a decoction of 10 herbs with water once or twice a day for one to two hours each time for 15 days.
Efficacy: Mainly for the treatment of yin and yang deficiency type diabetes.
Soak feet in smallpox powder water
Recipe: 50 grams each of smallpox powder, luo shi teng, shengdi, qiangwu, and dautu grass, 30 grams each of tiangui, angelica, and wei lingxian, and 25 grams of safflower.
Directions: Boil the 9 herbs with water, remove the residue and soak the feet when the temperature is suitable, twice a day for 30 minutes each time.
Efficacy: This formula has the effect of clearing heat and promoting the production of body fluid, dispersing wind and dispelling dampness, activating blood circulation and relieving pain, and is suitable for patients with diabetes complicating peripheral neuritis.
Chuan Gui Zhi Water Foot Soak
Recipe: Chuan Gui Zhi, Sheng Shen Pian 50g each, Zi Dan Shen, Ligustrum, Sheng Huang Qi 100g each, Frankincense 25g, Myrrh 24g.
Directions: Put the seven herbs into a pot, add 5000 ml of water, boil over low heat, then decoct for 20 minutes, remove the dregs, pour the liquid into a basin, wait until the temperature drops to 50°C, put the affected foot into the liquid, the liquid can be dipped up to the ankle, soak for 30 minutes each time, soak once a night, each dose of medicine can be used for five days, before each soak, put the liquid and dregs into the pot and boil together.
Efficacy: This formula has the effect of activating blood circulation and resolving blood stasis, warming the menstruation and dispersing cold, relieving swelling and pain, and benefiting qi and generating muscle, which is suitable for diabetic toe end necrosis.
Double-skinned smallpox powder water foot soak
Recipe: 50 grams each of watermelon peel and winter melon peel, 15 grams of smallpox powder.
Practice: watermelon peel, winter melon peel and smallpox powder add 2000 ml of water, decoction until the water left 1500 ml, clarify the liquid, pour into the foot soak basin, first fumigation, when the temperature is appropriate soak feet, once a night before bed, 40 minutes each time, 20 days for a course of treatment.
Efficacy: This formula clears heat, dispels dampness and facilitates water, and is used to treat diabetes mellitus thirst and urinary turbidity.
Soak feet in water with suzuki and red peony
Recipe: 50 grams of Sumac, 30 grams of Papaya, Radix Rehmanniae, 30 grams of Paeonia lactiflora, 18 grams of Cinnamomum, 15 grams of Chuanxiong, 12 grams of Safflower, 12 grams of Angelica dahurica, 10 grams of Mugwort, 10 grams of Chuan Wu, 10 grams of Cao Wu, 10 grams of Ephedra.
Practice: put all the herbs into a pot at the same time, add 5000 ml of water, soak for 20 minutes, decoct the juice, put it into the bath, first smoked hands and feet for 30 minutes, and then put the hands and feet into the bath for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable, twice a day, 20 days for a course.
Efficacy: This formula activates blood circulation, dispels wind and disperses cold, and is suitable for relieving diabetic numbness, pain and hypoesthesia in the hands and feet.
Astragalus angelica water foot soak
Recipe: Astragalus membranaceus 45g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Chuanxiong, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Peach kernel, Salviae Miltiorrhiza, Safflower, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix et Rhizoma Chai Hu, Licorice 15g each.
Practice: all the herbs with water, decoction for 30 minutes, remove the dregs to take the juice, and 2000 ml of boiling water together into the basin, first fumigation, to the appropriate temperature soak feet, once a day in the morning and evening, each fumigation 40 minutes, 20 days for a course of treatment.
Efficacy: This formula is suitable for patients with diabetes mellitus with qi deficiency and blood stagnation. The symptoms include weakness, thirst, breathlessness in the heart and chest, pain in the precordial region, purple and dull tongue or petechiae, fat tongue and weak pulse.
Foot soak with slices of Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati
Recipe: 15 grams each of Siberian Pill, Radix Rehmanniae, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Dampi, Yam, Poria, Zedoary, Pueraria Mirifica, 30 grams each of Xian Ling Spleen, 10 grams of Cinnamon.
Practice: add all the herbs to 2500 ml of water, boil for 10 minutes, take the liquid and pour it into the foot basin, soak both feet at the right temperature once a day for 1.5 hours (warm if cold), for 15 days as a course of treatment.
Efficacy: This formula is suitable for diabetic patients with yin and yang deficiency, who suffer from polyuria, frequent urination, increased nocturia, lethargy, loose stools, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, loss of libido, premature ejaculation of impotence, white tongue with light coating and weak pulse, etc.
Gui Zhi Dan Shen water foot soak
Recipe: Astragalus membranaceus 60 grams, cinnamon sticks, Salvia miltiorrhiza, sliced sophora, lonicera 50 grams each, frankincense, myrrh 20 grams each.
Practice: add the above herbs with water, decoction for 30 minutes, dregs and juice, and 2000 ml of boiling water together into the basin, first fumigation, to be the right temperature soak feet, once a day, each fumigation soak 40 minutes, 30 days for a course of treatment.
Efficacy: This formula warms the Yang and opens the ligaments, activates blood circulation, removes blood stasis, disperses cold, relieves pain and produces muscle, and is suitable for those with symptoms of toe end necrosis in diabetes.
