“Old cold leg” carries the word “old”, which makes many people mistakenly believe that it is the patent of the elderly, but it is not so. Some young people will also be troubled by old cold legs because they don’t pay attention to keeping warm. When encountering cold weather, the legs will feel swollen, numb and painful, which is the precursor of old cold legs. Although the old cold leg will improve after treatment, it is an “environmental disease”, which is easy to relapse when encountering cold weather or exogenous wind cold.
As the saying goes, “cold comes from the foot, warm lower limbs, beneficial to the whole body”. For the old cold leg patients, they may as well soak their feet in hot water at ordinary times. Six of the 12 meridians of the human body originate from the soles of the feet. Foot soaking can stimulate the operation of meridians. With sufficient blood and smooth blood flow, the evil of cold and dampness has nowhere to hide, and the legs naturally have no worries.
When you soak your feet, you can add some cold dispelling drugs to the water. Pepper, which is common in the kitchen, is a good cold dispelling medicine. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is warm in nature and belongs to the category of cold dispelling drugs in traditional Chinese medicine. It can remove the cold of the five viscera and six organs, unblock blood vessels and regulate joints. First grab a handful of Chinese prickly ash and add an appropriate amount of water for boiling. When the medicine is fully integrated into the water, pour it into the basin and smoke your feet first. When the water is cold enough to soak your feet, use it to soak your feet. In this process, you can continuously add hot pepper water, which is better to cover your ankles, soak for half an hour, and sweat slightly all over your body. Because sweating is the best way to dispel cold. In addition to Chinese prickly ash, mugwort leaves also have a good effect on dispelling cold and dehumidification.
when you soak your feet, you should pay attention to the following problems:
1. The optimal duration is 15-20 minutes.
The soak time should not be too long, 15-2030 minutes. When feet are soaked, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and blood supply to the brain is easy to be insufficient. If patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly feel chest tightness and dizziness, they should temporarily stop soaking their feet and have a rest. Diabetes patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so their families should test the water temperature first to prevent scalding.
2. The best water temperature is 40 ℃ – 50 ℃
The water temperature cannot be too high. Many people think that as long as they are within their tolerance, the higher the water temperature, the better. In fact, it is not the case. The best water temperature for foot soaking is below 50 ℃. It is required to be hot but not hot. It is better to feel the water temperature with your feet rather than hands. If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels on the feet are easy to expand excessively, and the blood in the body flows more to the lower limbs. On the contrary, it is easy to cause insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney, which is unfavorable to the body.
3. The water volume must not be too small.
It’s better to use a deep wooden bucket or enamel basin with a large bottom area to soak your feet comfortably and horizontally, and it’s better to let the water soak all the way to your calves.
4. You should not be half hearted when soaking your feet.
Don’t read books or watch TV when you soak your feet, which is easy to achieve the effect of “igniting fire and returning to the original”.
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