Can soaking your feet in alum treat high blood pressure?

Hypertension is a common disease among middle-aged and elderly people. Most of the patients are obese, like to eat meat and have a strong taste. Patients must adhere to drug treatment and control their daily diet, regulate their body through diet, etc. There are also many folk remedies, such as soaking feet in alum, which is a commonly heard method of treating high blood pressure. So, does this method really work for treating high blood pressure?

Alum is in the form of irregular crystals of varying sizes. White, transparent or translucent. The surface is smooth or uneven, often covered with a layer of white frost. Hard and brittle. It is easy to break, the broken surface has a glassy luster, a slight odor, and a sour and astringent taste. Alum has antibacterial and astringent effects, and can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that alum has the effects of detoxifying and killing insects, drying dampness and relieving itching, stopping bleeding and diarrhea, clearing heat and eliminating phlegm. Research in recent years has confirmed that alum also has antibacterial and anti-trichomoniasis effects. Some Chinese medicine practitioners use alum to treat diseases such as hyperlipidemia, duodenal ulcers, and hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis.

Alum can be used to prepare aluminum salts, baking powder, paints, tanning agents, clarifiers, mordants, papermaking, waterproofing agents, etc.

However, alum contains metallic aluminum. It is not advisable to eat too much food containing large amounts of alum, as it will cause harm to the body, especially the brain.

White alum, also known as alum and alum stone, is made by processing and refining the sulfate mineral alum stone. Its main component is potassium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate. Pure white alum is calcined (the Ming calcination method is a method of preparing traditional Chinese medicine) to remove the crystal water and calcine it until it is crisp to obtain "dry alum". Alum can detoxify, kill insects, dry dampness and relieve itching when applied externally; it can stop bleeding, stop diarrhea and eliminate wind and phlegm when taken internally. In clinical practice, TCM is used for external treatment of eczema, scabies, and pus from the ears; it is used internally for chronic diarrhea, bloody stools, metrorrhagia, and epilepsy. Alum can absorb moisture, heal sores, stop bleeding and eliminate pus. It is clinically used for eczema, pus from the ears, vaginal itching and leucorrhea, epistaxis, bleeding from the teeth, and nasal polyps.

Soaking feet in alum can treat sweaty feet, but it has no effect on lowering blood pressure. Alum can tighten the pores of the skin and reduce the secretion of sweat. Before going to bed every day, add 3-6 grams of alum to the foot bath water. After the alum dissolves in the water, soak your feet for 10-15 minutes. Soak your feet once every night. After 5-6 days, the symptoms of sweaty feet will be relieved. It doesn't work. Contains aluminum, which is harmful to the body. Long-term high blood pressure can cause many diseases, such as coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive kidney disease and so on. If your blood pressure is found to be higher than 140/90, you must use antihypertensive drugs to lower your blood pressure steadily and take them for a long time. There are many types of antihypertensive drugs, they are not expensive and easy to take. Lacidipine or irbesartan can be given. Read the drug instructions before use. Drinking apigenin tea for 20 to 30 minutes each time also has a great effect on high blood pressure, and can better control high blood pressure. 5 grams a day, brewed with boiling water and drunk as tea, can inhibit the tension of vascular smooth muscle, reduce the secretion of adrenaline, thereby lowering and stabilizing blood pressure. It is the best food for lowering blood pressure and is also effective in treating high blood pressure.

Celery and bitter melon also have blood pressure lowering effects. Patients should eat a light diet, eat less greasy food, keep their bowel movements smooth, maintain emotional stability, do appropriate exercise, quit smoking and drinking, go to bed early and get up early, do not go to bed later than ten o'clock, control their emotions at ordinary times, do not be irritable, take medicine on time, measure blood pressure, and self-discipline is very important.