10 Chinese medicine foot bath secret recipes

Nowadays, due to the pressure from society, when people are busy outside all day, their feet are definitely the ones that suffer. If I can soak my feet after returning home, all my worries will be forgotten. So how can we soak our feet well? Let’s popularize the relevant knowledge today.

Ginger Foot Bath

Ingredients: a piece of ginger, 1 gram of safflower, and appropriate amount of salt.

Process: Flatten the ginger with a knife, wrap the safflower with gauze, put them in water and boil them together, then add a spoonful of salt for soaking your feet.

Effect: Cold feet and fear of cold.

Red flower foot bath

Ingredients: 1 gram of safflower, a little salt.

Process: Put safflower in water and boil it, add a spoonful of salt, fumigate your feet first and then soak them

Efficacy: Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and treat low back pain.

Mugwort Foot Bath

Ingredients: 50-100 grams of dried mugwort leaves

Process: After boiling the water, add cold water or wait for the water temperature to drop by itself before soaking your feet. The prerequisite is to run the moxa leaves with boiling water for about 20 minutes, and then add them to warm water to soak together, so that it will be effective.

Efficacy: Mugwort and ginger can cure colds, joint diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, coughs, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

Mugwort and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness or blood stasis in the hands and feet.

Mugwort and 20 peppercorns are suitable for treating foot sweat, foot odor, athlete's foot, and eczema.

Baking Soda Foot Soak

Ingredients: baking soda, appropriate amount of salt.

Process: Heat salt in water, then add baking soda and soak your feet in the water.

Efficacy: Lowers blood pressure.

Vinegar Foot Soak

Ingredients: some vinegar

Process: Boil water, then add appropriate amount of vinegar and wait until the temperature is suitable for foot soaking.

Efficacy: Soaking feet in vinegar can enhance the elasticity of the skin, make the skin rosy, and improve symptoms of human body discomfort such as fear of cold.

Foot Bath with Angelica and Longan

Ingredients: 40g angelica, 25g longan pulp

Process: Add angelica and longan into appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat for about 40 minutes, then take the juice and remove the residue, then pour it into the foot basin together with the boiling water. When the temperature is suitable for you, you can soak your feet once or twice a day.

Efficacy: beautify and nourish the skin.

Foot bath with Codonopsis, Astragalus and Atractylodes

Ingredients: 15g Codonopsis pilosula, 20g Astragalus membranaceus, 15g Atractylodes macrocephala

Process: Add the three herbs to water and boil them, then pour them into a foot bath and soak your feet for 30 minutes, once a day.

Efficacy: Replenish qi deficiency.

Cinnamon Twig, Silver Flower, Safflower Foot Bath

Ingredients: 15g cinnamon twig, 15g honeysuckle, 20g safflower

Process: Boil several herbs in water and pour into a foot bath to soak your feet for 30 minutes, once a day.

Effect: moisturizes the skin, treats chapped skin

Magnolia Flower and Xanthium sibiricum Foot Bath

Ingredients: 20 grams of magnolia flower, 20 grams of Xanthium sibiricum, 15 grams of Angelica dahurica, 10 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, 10 grams of Cimicifuga heracleifolia, 60 grams of Ipomoea australis, 10 grams of mint, and 10 grams of Asarum.

Process: Add several herbs into water, boil it, and soak your feet.

Efficacy: Clear nasal passages, improve nasal congestion and runny nose.

Prunella Vulgaris and Mulberry Branch Foot Bath

Ingredients: 30 grams of Prunella Vulgaris, 20 grams of mulberry twig, 20 grams of cassia twig, 20 grams of white peony root, 30 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 30 grams of dragon tooth, and a little oyster.

Process: Put all the ingredients into water and boil them.

Efficacy: Improve insomnia.