What Chinese medicine is good for women to soak their feet

Women generally age faster than men, so they need to take good care of their bodies. Soaking your feet every day is good for women. It can relieve stress and promote blood circulation. So it is very good to soak your feet in hot water every day. When soaking your feet, if you put some Chinese medicine in the water, it will be more beneficial to the body. So what Chinese medicine is better to put in the water when soaking your feet?

What Chinese medicine is good for women to soak their feet?

1. Ginger: Dispels cold

In traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is a pungent and warm antipyretic drug that has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving exterior symptoms, and has relatively few toxic side effects. Modern medicine believes that ginger can stimulate capillaries and improve local blood circulation and metabolism. People who are afraid of cold and have cold hands and feet can soak their feet in ginger.

It should be noted that soaking your feet with ginger does not mean soaking the ginger in hot water for a while. Instead, you should generally take 15-30 grams of ginger (about half a medium-sized piece of ginger), flatten it, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot and boil it with hot water for about 10 minutes. After cooking, pour out all the ginger water and add appropriate amount of cold water to about 40℃ (generally it is best not to feel hot). When soaking your feet, the water should cover your ankles, and it is best to rub your feet while soaking.

Many of the medicinal ingredients in ginger are small molecules, and covering the pot when cooking can prevent them from volatilizing. The amount of half a piece of ginger is the amount that can be used to fill half a basin of water in a foot bath in an ordinary household. If you use a lot of water for foot soaking or your cold symptoms are severe, you can increase the amount of ginger as appropriate. After soaking your feet in ginger water for a period of time, the symptoms of fear of cold can generally be improved to a certain extent.

2. Cinnamon: Reduces swelling

Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon bark, official cinnamon or fragrant cinnamon, is a commonly used household spice along with Sichuan peppercorns. Both have the effect of warming the kidney yang. Soaking your feet in them can effectively relieve edema caused by kidney disease.

Nephrogenic edema is edema caused by problems with kidney function or disease. It usually first occurs in areas with loose tissue, such as the eyelids, face, and ankles. It is most obvious when you wake up in the morning. Pressing the skin in the edematous area with your fingers may cause depression. If renal edema occurs, you can boil 15 grams (a handful or a small piece) of pepper and cinnamon and then soak your feet in it. The cooking method is the same as that of ginger. Continuously soaking your feet in this way can have a certain effect in reducing swelling.

If edema symptoms begin in the sagging parts of the body (such as the legs) and gradually spread to other parts of the body, it may be cardiogenic edema caused by problems with heart function. For this type of edema, you can use the ginger boiled water mentioned above to soak your feet, which can promote blood circulation in the lower limbs and thus help reduce edema.