What causes dry soles of feet?

There are many causes of dry soles, the most common of which is caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire. Therefore, if you want to completely cure the symptoms of dry soles, patients must take the right medicine to solve the problem of yin deficiency and excessive fire. Otherwise, it will only treat the symptoms and not the root cause, and the symptoms of dry soles of the feet cannot be completely cured. Below, we will introduce in detail the symptoms of Yin deficiency and excessive fire and methods to relieve Yin deficiency and excessive fire!

1. What causes dry soles of feet?

This condition is mainly caused by the body's yin deficiency and excessive fire, which leads to dry skin on the extremities. It is recommended to soak your feet with foot bath salt or Chinese medicine such as safflower and mugwort, and eat more nourishing foods such as longan, donkey-hide gelatin, white fungus, etc.

2. What does Yin deficiency and excessive fire mean?

Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, also known as Yin deficiency and fire inflammation, virtual fire, Yin deficiency and fire, Yin fire, etc., refers to the deficiency of Yin fluid and hyperactivity of virtual fire. Yin deficiency leads to hyperactivity of Yang and generates heat which turns into virtual fire, with common symptoms such as restlessness and insomnia, dry mouth and throat, night sweats and spermatorrhea, hypersexuality, flushed cheeks, short and yellow urine, dry and hard stools, or coughing up blood, epistaxis, or tongue and oral ulcers, red tongue with little fluid, and thin and rapid pulse.

3. What to do if Yin deficiency and excessive fire occur?

Symptoms: Hot flashes in the afternoon, or fever at night, unwillingness to wear clothes due to fever, heat in the palms and soles of feet, or hot flashes due to bone steaming, irritability, insomnia, frequent dreams, red cheeks, night sweats, body temperature higher than normal; dry mouth and throat, dry and hard stools, less yellow urine, dry and red tongue or cracked tongue, no or little tongue coating, and thready and rapid pulse. Or accompanied by recurrent oral ulcers, pain, dizziness, back pain and fatigue, etc. Treatment principle: nourish yin and relieve fire. Main recipe: Huanglian donkey-hide gelatin soup. Prescription: Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, donkey-hide gelatin (melted and taken with water), white peony root, and raw egg yolk. Decoction in water, remove the dregs, add gelatin thoroughly, then add egg yolk and mix. Take in 3 doses, one dose per day.

If the heart fire is excessive and ulcers appear in the mouth and tongue, add lotus seed core, bamboo leaves, and wick; if the yin deficiency is severe, add raw rehmannia, ophiopogon japonicus, and glossy privet fruit; if there is also qi deficiency, add astragalus, pseudostellaria, or American ginseng and stew them separately; if the urine is short, red, and difficult, add Imperata root and plantain; if there is also stomach yin deficiency, add dendrobium, polygonatum, and water chestnut juice (mixed for consumption); if there is insomnia, add polygala tenuifolia and julibrissin.