Foot washing machine
It's not very expensive. You can try it sometime. Very comfortable. Here is a brief introduction about foot bath: foot bath is to soak feet with water, which is a health preservation method passed down from generation to generation in China.
The ballad goes: "Wash your feet in spring and the sun rises;" Wash your feet in summer, and the heat and dampness can go; Wash feet in autumn, moisten lungs and intestines; Wash your feet in winter, and Dantian is warm. " It can be seen that since ancient times, people have regarded "a pot of soup before bed" as an effective health care measure.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that foot is the beginning of the three yin meridians (spleen, liver and kidney) and the end of the three yang meridians (stomach, gallbladder and bladder), which is closely related to the five internal organs. Foot bath can promote blood circulation, make the blood vessels in the feet unobstructed, help to eliminate fatigue and improve sleep.
Foot bath is divided into hot water foot bath and cold water foot bath, and everyone can choose according to their own situation. Hot water foot bath, you can soak your feet in water at about 50℃ (until the ankle joint is 0℃) for about 20 minutes each time.
This is equivalent to moxibustion with moxa sticks at foot acupoints, which can promote blood circulation and moisten viscera. Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate the nerve endings of the skin, regulate the functions of internal organs through the feedback of the central nervous system, promote metabolism and be beneficial to health.
Soaking feet with hot water in winter can promote local blood circulation and prevent frostbite. After a long walk or strenuous exercise, soaking feet with hot water can reduce the accumulation of local lactic acid and help to eliminate fatigue.
Soaking feet with hot water before going to bed can have a mild effect on the central nervous system, promote the cerebral cortex to enter a state of inhibition, and make people fall asleep safely. Cold water foot bath, the water temperature should be gradually reduced, generally from 20℃ to 4℃, from autumn to winter can use cold water to soak feet.
Before each foot bath, rub your feet with your hands to warm them up, then soak your feet in cold water and rub them with each other until your feet are flush. About 5 minutes each time, just do it once in the morning and once in the evening.
Cold water foot bath not only makes the blood vessels of the foot contract strongly, but also makes the physiological functions of all systems of the whole body active under the regulation of neurohumors. Cold water bath can also increase the temperature of nasal mucosa, enhance respiratory resistance and prevent colds in winter.
However, it should be noted that it should be dried and kept warm immediately after a cold bath.
2. Life tips related to pedicure
Suffering from severe heart failure, myocardial infarction, skin injury or skin infection is not suitable for foot bath; Soaking feet should not be done 30 minutes before and after meals, because the blood vessels in the feet dilate and the blood volume increases when soaking feet, which will cause the blood in the gastrointestinal tract and viscera to decrease and affect the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract.
Feet are the root of essence. Foot bath therapy is a kind of internal and external therapy to treat diseases by boiling soup, soaking feet and bathing.
It is suitable for the treatment of various diseases in internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, gynecology and dermatology, and can also be used for health care, longevity, beauty and skin cleaning. It has the functions of promoting blood circulation and metabolism of feet and whole body, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, so it is suitable for joint pain, rheumatoid arthritis, apoplexy sequelae, limb syncope, thromboangiitis obliterans, amenorrhea, polio sequelae, etc. It can also obviously eliminate fatigue, improve sleep and treat neurosis.
It also has unique curative effect on pediatric and gynecological diseases. Foot bath can promote the blood circulation and metabolism of the whole body, and has an auxiliary treatment effect on various cervical spondylosis.
It is easy to suffer from cervical spondylosis if you bow your head for a long time. You can prevent cervical spondylosis by soaking your feet regularly. First, the choice of commonly used drugs for foot bath The foot bathroom often has a variety of bath fluids to choose from.
It is of little practical significance to choose some publicized foot bath drugs from roses, milk or algae mud, depending on which Chinese herbal ingredients are contained in the drugs. Foot-bath therapy is mostly used for dredging channels and collaterals, inducing resuscitation and penetrating bones, and expelling toxin and evil spirits.
Such as asarum, angelica dahurica, mugwort leaf, pangolin, cinnamon, clove, pepper, musk and the like. The drugs used for foot bath must have a strong smell, and sometimes even some powerful and toxic products are used, and more are used.
Such as Pinellia ternata, aconite, kusnezoff monkshood, Nanxing, etc. Hot medicine is also used to soak feet to promote blood circulation.
In order to make the drugs reach the disease site directly and make the drugs targeted and effective, some auxiliary drugs, such as wine and ginger, can also be selected for blending. Second, the foot bath water temperature should be between 36℃ and 43℃, but generally it should not exceed 45℃.
The water temperature also depends on individual differences. For people who soak their feet for the first time, the water temperature can be lower and gradually increase. The water temperature of the foot bath for health care can be lower, and the water temperature of the foot bath for the treatment of joint pain, apoplexy sequelae and cold of limbs should be higher.
For children, patients with hypertension, patients with skin and nerve insensitivity (such as diabetes) and patients with stroke sequelae, special attention should be paid to preventing skin damage. Third, other precautions for soaking feet Suffering from severe heart failure, myocardial infarction, skin damage or skin infection should not soak feet; Soaking feet should not be done 30 minutes before and after meals, because the blood vessels in the feet dilate and the blood volume increases when soaking feet, which will cause the blood in the gastrointestinal tract and viscera to decrease and affect the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract.
Soaking feet before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not conducive to digestion. Foot bath immediately after meals will reduce the blood volume of gastrointestinal tract and affect digestion. Foot bath is effective through the synergistic effect of medicine and heat. The liquid medicine needs to be kept at an appropriate temperature. If it is slightly cold, change the potion. Dry the water on your feet immediately after bathing and put on warm clothes to avoid catching a cold. During foot bath, patients may have dizziness symptoms due to the expansion of blood vessels in the foot and the decrease of blood supply to the head. At this time, foot bath should be suspended, and the symptoms will disappear after lying down for a while.
3. What should I pay attention to for pedicure?
Precautions for pedicure are as follows: the amount of water should not be too small. It is best to use a deep wooden bucket or a porcelain enamel basin with a large bottom area, which can make your feet comfortably flat, and it is best to let the water soak all the way to your calves.
The temperature should not be too high, and the water temperature should not be too high. Many people think that the higher the water temperature, the better as long as it is within their tolerance, but it is not.
The best water temperature for soaking feet is below 50℃, which requires hot but not scalding. Feel the water temperature with your feet instead of your hands. If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels on the feet will easily expand excessively, and the blood in the body will flow more to the lower limbs, which will easily lead to insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney, which is not good for the body.
Pedicure time should not be too long, foot bath time should not be too long, and 15-20 minutes is appropriate. When soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply.
Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should temporarily stop soaking their feet and have a rest if they feel chest tightness and dizziness. Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so their families should try the water temperature first to prevent burns.
Foot bath time should be chosen within half an hour after meals, which will affect the blood supply to the stomach and lead to malnutrition in the long run. After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water immediately after eating, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead, which will affect digestion and absorption for a long time and lead to nutritional deficiency.
Therefore, it is best to soak your feet for half an hour after meals. Women can't pedicure at will during menstruation. The problem of women's menstrual period is more complicated. If we can't find out the reason, soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine can not only relieve pain, but also aggravate dysmenorrhea and other symptoms.
Therefore, if women want to treat menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea by soaking their feet with traditional Chinese medicine, it is best to consult a doctor and prescribe medicine according to their own situation.
4. What does pedicure include?
Pedicure includes: (1) Foot * * * Method: Foot * * * can relax the body and mind and strengthen the body, but what is more important is the word "therapy".
"Pedicure" is to adjust the physiological function of the human body, prevent and treat diseases and strengthen the body through different methods such as pressing, rubbing, pressing, rubbing and rubbing. (2) Foot bath method: Foot bath is a part of pedicure. Warm foot bath can promote local and systemic blood circulation, draw blood downward, and add drugs and other ingredients to complement each other better.
Foot bath liquid is a kind of lotion used for foot health care and treatment, and it is a method to take medicine by foot and get rid of diseases through foot administration. Different ingredients in foot bath soup have different functions, such as adding blood-activating drugs to enhance blood-activating effect; Warming drugs can warm yang and dispel cold; Soaking feet with salt and vinegar can kill pathogenic microorganisms and get rid of foot skin diseases; Adding drugs that can break through the skin barrier can obtain peculiar local curative effect ... (3) External treatment of foot: External treatment of foot embodies the principle of external treatment and nearby treatment. * * *, foot bath is also an external treatment of the foot, which belongs to the category of generalized external treatment.
Usually, external treatment is a treatment other than the two, including pedicure, pedicure, manicure, sticking medicine, application, fixation, traction and reduction.
5. What are the health tips?
Drink plenty of water for health care in summer. Drink at least seven or eight cups of boiled water every day in summer, and you need to add a certain amount of honey to the water.
For summer, people's body consumption is generally faster, and this honey can quickly supplement the energy related to the human body. Water can be said to be the most needed part of the human body, because our organs, muscles and even bones and teeth contain water. Once too much water is lost in summer, your health will be greatly affected if you don't replenish water in time.
If the water supply is insufficient, the skin will be dry, the corresponding wrinkles will increase, and the aging of the human body will accelerate. In view of this, honey water, mineral water, herbal tea and other drinks are all good products to quench thirst.
Food supplement for health care in summer When we nourish our diet in summer, we still need to pay attention to several problems. For hot weather, the principle of clearing away heat and dampness is to strengthen the spleen.
We can't eat some fat and hot food, but we can eat some light and nourishing food. Sweet, cold and wet foods generally include wheat, sorghum and highland barley, as well as Chinese cabbage, lettuce and asparagus.
Potassium supplementation and health care in summer For summer, sweating is normal, and more potassium ions are lost, which may cause hypokalemia. Hypokalemia can lead to fatigue, dizziness, headache and loss of appetite.
When the weather is hot, we can eat some foods containing potassium to supplement it. Strawberry, apricot, peach and plum are all foods with more potassium. In addition, tea contains more potassium. Drinking tea in hot weather can relieve summer heat and supplement potassium, which really kills two birds with one stone.
Supplementing salt and vitamin health care in summer For summer, due to the relative increase of human perspiration, the corresponding loss of sodium chloride is definitely a lot, so it is necessary to pay attention to supplementing salt while replenishing water. Generally speaking, we can drink salt and boiled water every day, which can ensure the acid-base balance and related osmotic pressure stability in our body.
For the high temperature season, we can also supplement some vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and calcium 1g every day. This can reduce the consumption of carbohydrates and related tissue proteins in the body. Therefore, when we keep fit in summer, we need to pay attention to eating more foods related to the above nutrients, such as watermelon and cucumber, and we can also drink some juice.
6. What are the precautions for pedicure?
Precautions for pedicure: (1) The foot * * * place should be kept clean, with fresh air and appropriate temperature.
(2) Don't * * * for half an hour before meals and one hour after meals. (3) Where there is trauma, infection, ulceration or tinea on the foot, surgery should be avoided here, and this method is not needed in severe cases.
If it is local swelling and bleeding caused by improper operation, the operation must be performed after the local area returns to normal. (4) When performing foot surgery, we should try to avoid the bony process to prevent the periosteum from being damaged.
Some sensitive reflex zones and acupoints should also be avoided. (5) Each operation time is about 30-45 minutes, which should not be too long, generally not more than 60 minutes. Children (/kloc-under 0/4 years old) and the elderly and infirm should shorten the time appropriately, and the intensity should be lighter, and the feet should not exceed 20 minutes.
(6) Drink 300-500ml warm water within half an hour after operation, and do not drink tea, wine or other drinks. Children, the elderly, the infirm, patients with heart disease, patients with kidney disease, patients with edema, and patients with diabetes should reduce the amount as appropriate, and drink 100-200ml.
(7) During pedicure, patients who have been taking medicine for a long time should not suddenly stop taking medicine. Wait until the condition is really relieved and then gradually decrease.
(8) Anyone whose feet are exposed to * * * for a long time, and the sensitivity of acupoints or reflex zones of the feet is weakened, can soak their feet with warm physiological saline with the ratio of 1: 100 before operation, or let them rest for 2-3 days before operation. (9) At noon 12, the air pollution is the most serious, and it is best not to carry out * * *. * * *, then put the calf and toe on one foot, for about two or three minutes, and keep turning.
(10) * * After all, drink a glass or two of warm water. In * * *, waste will float out and concentrate in the kidneys, so it will neutralize and form urine. You can squeeze some lemon juice into warm water.
(11) * * Nails should be cut short before treatment to prevent skin damage during treatment. Wash hands and patients' feet with fat mound, and evenly apply * * * ointment on the * * reflex area, which can play the roles of lubricating skin, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and resisting aging. (12) Patients with heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease should not exercise for more than 15 minutes at a time. Patients with severe heart disease, epilepsy and abnormal liver function should be treated by other methods.
(13) ***, the fan should not be blown directly on the patient's feet. * * * After the end, the patient shall not wash his feet with cold water within 1 hour, and the operator shall not wash his hands with cold water immediately. He should have a rest and then wash his hands with warm water and soap. (14) For chronic diseases, antibiotics, painkillers, sedatives and other drugs can generally be stopped during the treatment of the foot reflex zone. For other diseases, you can take medicine according to the doctor's prescription and treat your feet at the same time. After the condition improved, the dosage was gradually reduced until the patient recovered completely and stopped taking the medicine.
(15) Some patients may have general malaise symptoms such as low fever, chills, fatigue, diarrhea, etc. after receiving * * * treatment, which may even be temporarily aggravated, or the urine turns dark, smells bad, or flocs and black stools appear. These are some reactions after * * *. You can continue to insist on treatment, and the situation will disappear and return to normal in a few days or more. (16) Long-term acceptance of the foot * * *, the foot feels dull, and the foot can be soaked in salt water for half an hour, which will restore the pain; Bone protrusion should be avoided during the treatment, so as not to damage the periosteum and cause pain.
(17) The bones of the elderly are brittle, the joints are stiff, and the skin of children is thin and tender, and the bones are soft. * * *, you can use your fingertips to push hard, but don't push too hard, so as not to hurt your skin and bones. (18) At ordinary times, natural conditions can be used at any time, such as tree roots, grasslands and gravel roads in parks. You can walk barefoot as long as there is no danger of infection and skin laceration. At home, table and chair edges, crosspieces, bed edges and stair edges can all be used as tools for feet.
7. Foot health knowledge
Foot health care knowledge
Pedicure * * * "Three Stages": Foot * * * has five reflex zones: celiac plexus, spleen, kidney, ureter and bladder. These five reflection areas must be strengthened at the beginning or end of * * *.
I. Order * * *
The whole foot * * *, should start from the left foot, * * 3 times kidney, ureter, bladder three reflex zones, and then press the sole, medial foot, lateral foot and instep. In * * *, the key point is to find sensitive points, so that you can feel the pain of * * * without much effort, and it will be effective.
Second, the strength of * * *
The intensity of * * is an important factor to obtain curative effect, and if the intensity is too small, it has no effect. On the other hand, it is unbearable, so it should be moderate and even. The so-called moderation refers to the principle of "getting angry" when there is pain. And the so-called uniform, refers to the * * * power to gradually penetrate, slowly lift, and have a certain rhythm, not fast and slow, when light and heavy.
Third, * * * time.
In the process of * * * treatment, it is necessary to grasp the time of * * * according to the patient's condition, symptoms and physique. Generally, the time of a single reflex zone is 3-5 minutes, but the reflex zone of kidney, ureter and bladder must be * * to 5 minutes to strengthen urinary function and expel toxic substances from the body. Overall * * * time should be controlled in 30~45 minutes.
Most of the important acupoints in the human body are located at the golden section, and their nerve structures and mast cells are relatively concentrated, which is the part where the body surface output is easy to transmit physiological or pathological information and the body surface is sensitive to external information. According to research, in the process of meridian induction, mast cells release a variety of active substances and collide with trace substances of traditional Chinese medicine, which can improve the excitability of nerve endings on the skin surface. Trace bioactive substances (traditional Chinese medicine) can produce obvious physiological signal amplification at important acupuncture points of human body under the action of negative pressure in vivo, thus strengthening the attack power of drugs. Its permeation rate is related to drug concentration, bath composition, aromaticity, skin dryness and wetness, and blood flow rate.
It is recommended to use a foot bath tub, Taichang's. I used it. It's good.