What are the Chinese herbal foot baths?

The weather is getting colder day by day, and some people with weaker constitutions are starting to experience cold hands and feet again. Even if they wear very thick clothes, they still cannot avoid cold hands and feet. At this time, you might as well soak your feet in hot water frequently before going to bed, which can promote blood circulation and improve the condition of cold hands and feet. If you add some Chinese medicine to the foot bath water, it can also relieve many diseases in the body.

1. Indications: low back pain, low back pain due to kidney deficiency, weak legs

Medication: 50g cinnamon, 100g evodia, 150g ginger, 50g onion, 80g pepper

Usage: Wrap the water with gauze and boil it for 10 minutes. When the water temperature drops to about 40℃, soak in a steam foot bath for 30 minutes, once a day.

2. Indications: Insomnia

Medication: 40g of Evodia rutaecarpa, appropriate amount of rice vinegar (white vinegar)

Usage: Decoction Evodia rutaecarpa, add warm water, then add rice vinegar and soak your feet in a steam foot bath for 30 minutes, once a day.

3. Indications: Neurasthenia

Medication: 500g of Polygonum multiflorum

Usage: After boiling the above medicine in water and removing the residue, mix it with warm water and soak your feet in a steam foot bath for 30 minutes, once a day.

4. Indications: athlete's foot, chapped sores

Medication: 100 ml of vinegar

Usage: Mix vinegar with warm water and soak your feet in a steam foot bath for 30 minutes, once a day

5. Indications: Spasm of the artery of the foot

Medication: 10 grams each of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Rhizoma Corydalis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Curcuma Longa, Sichuan Pepper, Pittosporum tobira bark, Clematis chinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Frankincense, Myrrh, Notopterygium wilfordii, Angelica dahurica, Sappan Wood, Acanthopanax Cortex, Safflower, and Smilax glabra.

Usage: Boil the above medicinal water, remove the residue, mix it into the steam foot bath and soak your feet for 20-30 minutes, once a day. 10-15 days is a course of treatment.

6. Indications: Dysmenorrhea

Medication: 400 grams of fennel

Usage: After boiling the above medicine in water and removing the residue, mix it with warm water and soak your feet in a steam foot bath for 30 minutes, once a day.

If you have some of the above-mentioned symptoms, you might as well buy some Chinese medicine according to your symptoms, and then soak your feet before going to bed every night. This can help prevent and cure diseases. Even if you don't have any disease, if you can soak your feet in pure hot water every night before going to bed, it can promote blood circulation, relieve fatigue, and help you sleep better.