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Chinese Herbal Foot Soak Remedies

Foot soaking can help to improve blood circulation throughout the body, thus achieving a health maintenance effect on the human body. Soaking your feet in Chinese herbs can also help prevent disease and relieve stress.

Foot soaks can help to improve blood circulation throughout the body, thus achieving a health and wellness effect on the body. Foot soaking with Chinese herbs can also achieve the effect of preventing diseases and relieving stress. Today, we would like to introduce some common herbal foot soak remedies to you.


Chinese herbal foot soak remedies
1,Materials: 50g cinnamon, 100g Cornus officinalis, 150g ginger, 50g spring onion, 80g pepper.
Efficacy: can relieve back pain, kidney deficiency back pain, leg paint weakness.

Usage: Boil in water wrapped in sand cloth for 10 minutes, leave the water temperature to drop to about 40 ℃, soak in a steam footbath for 30 minutes, once a day.

2,Materials: 40g of Cornus officinalis and the right amount of rice vinegar (white vinegar).
Efficacy: It can relieve insomnia.

Usage: Decoct the juice of Cornus officinalis, add warm water and then add rice vinegar to soak both feet in a steam footbath for 30 minutes, once a day.

3,Materials: mugwort 50g, artemisia 50g, ginger 50g, atractylodes
Effects: Warming Yang and dispersing cold

Usage: Decoct four herbs with water, boil water for 15 minutes on low heat, pour into a foot bath tub, adjust the temperature to about 40 ℃, soak feet for 20 minutes, once a day.

4,Materials: Schisandra chinensis 20g, Aromatic herb 20g, Shou Wu Vine 30g, Yu Jin 30g, Lily 30g, Acorus calamus
Effects: Tranquilizing the mind and improving insomnia


Usage: Wrap the herbs in gauze, boil in water for 50 minutes, pour into a footbath bucket, wait until the temperature drops to about 40°C and soak the feet for half an hour, once a day.

5,Materials: cinnamon stick 15g, silver flower 15g, safflower
Effect: Nourish the skin, improve skin cracking


How to use: Boil the three herbs with water, pour them into the footbath after boiling, adjust the temperature to about 40℃ and soak the feet for 30 minutes, once a day.

6,Materials: Radix Codonopsis pilosulae 15g, Radix Astragali 20, Atractylodes Macrocephala
Effects: Tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi

Usage: Decoct the three herbs with water, add to the footbath after cooking, adjust the temperature to about 40 ℃, soak the feet for 30 minutes, once a day.


Precautions for foot soaking:
1, After soaking feet can not immediately go to bed, while the feet are hot rub the soles of the feet, timely wear socks to keep warm, to wait for the whole body heat slowly reduced before going to sleep the best effect.

2, The elderly foot soak time to be shorter, because the elderly soak too long, easy to trigger sweating, panic and other symptoms. Therefore, the elderly daily foot soak 20 minutes before bedtime is better.

3, The best time to choose to soak feet is before going to bed, an hour after meals, so as to avoid the blood flow down and affect the digestion of food.

4, Pregnancy and menstruating women should not soak feet, soaking feet at this time is likely to affect the health of women and fetuses.


5, Foot inflammation, skin disease, trauma or skin burns, foot soaking is likely to cause wound infection.


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