Is foot soaking useful for dysmenorrhea? How to treat it?

Women will experience dysmenorrhea before and after their menstruation. Therefore, it is very common to experience symptoms such as irritability, stomach pain, pelvic blood rush, and decreased appetite during menstruation. These are normal and common symptoms during menstruation. So, is it generally useful to soak your feet during commuting? How can soaking your feet relieve dysmenorrhea? The following article will teach you.

Women are generally more irritable during menstruation, especially those who suffer from dysmenorrhea, which often affects their work, study and rest. If you are suffering from dysmenorrhea and have tried many treatments without any improvement, you might try soaking your feet with Chinese medicine at home, which may achieve unexpected results. All women of appropriate age can use Chinese medicine foot bath method to regulate their bodies. However, different physical conditions or different syndrome types will result in different choices in medication.

Qi stagnation and blood stasis type

Its symptoms include lower abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, and dark menstrual blood with blood clots. For people with such symptoms, they should harmonize qi and blood, resolve blood stasis and relieve pain. Because "women are based on the liver", the medicines chosen for foot soaking are mainly those that enter the foot Jueyin liver meridian, and an appropriate amount of medicinal vinegar is added to guide the meridians, such as 30 grams each of green peel, Atractylodes lancea, and Leonurus japonicus, and 10 grams each of Chuanxiong and Safflower.

Add about two liters of water and about 50 milliliters of vinegar, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. When the medicine cools to 50°C, pour it into a basin with the residue and soak your feet. The amount of medicine in the basin should be enough to immerse the ankle joint. If the amount of medicine is insufficient, add an appropriate amount of warm water. The feet move constantly in the medicine, allowing the soles of the feet to receive slight physical stimulation from the medicinal residue, for more than 30 minutes each time.

In the above article, we introduced to you whether foot soaking is useful for dysmenorrhea. In fact, the process of foot soaking can promote our blood to rise continuously, thereby causing smooth blood circulation and preventing patients with insufficient blood circulation from having poor blood circulation.