After the frost, it will soon be winter, and the temperature is constantly dropping.
Winter is coming, have you been feeling that the temperature has not yet dropped off a cliff, and you already feel very cold, and you have to wear one or two more clothes than others to feel warm?
Especially the feet, even if you wear thick socks, you still feel cold, completely warm up, this kind of cold feet, you have to pay attention!
As the saying goes, "A hundred diseases start from the cold, and the cold is born from the soles of the feet". Keeping your feet warm is a top priority for autumn and winter wellness. After winter, when the feet are not warm, people often feel cold and weak, and they are easy to get sick. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that general foot cold is caused by cold feet and insufficient yang.
Why are my feet so cold when I cool down?
In autumn and winter, the sun enters the ground and the yin condenses. If the feet are exposed for a long time without enough warmth, the cold will invade, and because the feet are far away from the heart, the qi and blood are not working, and the cold will condense in the feet, which is the reason why the cold is born from the soles of the feet.
Huangdi Neijing's "Suwen Lifting Pain" describes in detail the various effects of cold invasion on the human body. The meridians of the human body are endless, the circumference is endless, the cold breath enters the menstruation, blocks the retraction, makes the tendons and pulses spasms, and the stroke is painful. Cold evil stays at the joints, which can cause joint pain, poor flexion and extension, etc. Women may also experience cold and dysmenorrhea.
The easiest and most effective way to get rid of cold feet - soaking your feet
Our feet are rich in peripheral neural networks, capillaries and lymphocytes. The basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine summarizes that there are more than 60 acupuncture points in the human feet, which run through the main 6 meridians of the body, are the termination points of 3 yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, gallbladder meridian), the starting point of 3 yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian, kidney meridian), and more than 70 reflex zones of various organs of the body.
When soaking the feet in hot water, the temperature of the feet rises appropriately, which can soothe the meridians and dilate the blood vessels, thereby promoting the circulation of qi and blood, unclogging multiple meridian points of the body, and achieving the effect of warming the body and warming the body.
Soaking your feet also has the effect of aiding sleep. In the cold winter, pour a basin of hot water before going to bed, slowly extend the feet into the hot water, gradually extend the warmth from the soles of the feet to the whole body, dispel the cold of winter and the fatigue of work, can make people fall asleep faster, improve the quality of sleep.
Traditional Chinese medicine foot soaking secret recipe
"Adding ingredients" to foot soaking water when soaking feet can play a certain health care role, and you can choose to add Chinese medicinal materials according to your own situation.
1. Ginger
Ginger can dispel cold, and adding ginger to foot water can stimulate capillaries, improve blood circulation and metabolism, and achieve a better cold removal effect.
2. Mugwort
Mugwort leaves have the effect of rejuvenating the yang, regulating qi and blood, and dispelling dampness and cold, and soaking the feet with mugwort leaves can also improve lung function, which is very good for people suffering from chronic bronchitis.
3. Cinnamon + peppercorns
Both cinnamon and peppercorns have the effect of warming kidney yang, and are used to soak the feet, which can relieve the edema caused by kidney disease.
4. Salt
In winter, in order to keep out the cold, shoes and socks are generally thicker, not highly breathable, feet are easy to cover the taste, especially people who are prone to foot sweat, soaking feet with salt water can kill bacteria and deodorize, prevent athlete's foot, and also remove dead skin keratin, so that the foot skin is clean and smooth.
What do I need to pay attention to when soaking my feet?
1. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetics, varicose veins and children should not soak their feet!
2. The temperature of foot water is 40 °C is the best, and for people with more cocoons on their feet, the water temperature can be appropriately higher. The water temperature should not be too high, otherwise it is easy to damage the sebum membrane on the surface of the skin of the feet, so that the stratum corneum is dry or even cracked.
3. Generally, soaking the feet for about 30 minutes can be, the whole body is slightly warm, seems to sweat but does not sweat is the best, at this time the body's blood circulation has been relatively smooth.
4. When the temperature of the water cannot be determined, it is recommended to try it by hand instead of with the foot, because the hand is more sensitive to temperature than the foot to avoid burns.
5. After soaking the feet, you can massage and rub the feet, which can help activate blood circulation and enhance the body's ability to resist disease, and the strength can be moderate.