Why can soaking your feet at night replenish blood?

The feet are the base camp of yin blood, and the three yin meridians converge here: the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, the foot Taiyin spleen meridian, and the foot Queyin liver meridian. The kidneys produce blood, the liver stores blood, and the spleen controls blood.

1. Why can soaking your feet at night replenish blood?

Blood deficiency, blood stasis → cold hands and feet, dull tongue, spots on the face, tightness of the heart, stuffiness, and shortness of breath.

Soak your feet at night - put safflower (spicy in taste, warm in nature, enters the liver meridian and pericardium meridian, breaks blood, promotes blood circulation, harmonizes blood, and regulates blood) in hot water to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; dredge the three yin meridians of the kidney, liver, and spleen.

2. Tips for foot soaking

Soak your feet in spring to open up the sun and consolidate the body;

Soak your feet in summer to remove dampness and heat;

Soak your feet in autumn to cleanse your intestines and moisten your lungs;

Soaking your feet in winter can warm your dantian.

3. Foot Soaking Materials

Add salt to water → constipation → can also eliminate fatigue and help sleep.

Add vinegar to water → foot odor → remove foot odor, prevent and treat athlete's foot, promote blood circulation, and remove rheumatism.

Put ginger, tangerine peel and mint in water → spleen and stomach deficiency → warm the spleen and stomach and eliminate dampness. WeChat: caz775 Put peppercorns in water → deodorizes and removes dampness, promotes the flow of qi and water, and supports yang energy.

Put white peony root, motherwort and angelica in water → dysmenorrhea → dysmenorrhea is generally caused by body cold or qi stagnation and blood stasis. White peony root removes yin qi, relieves abdominal pain, and unblocks blood vessels. Motherwort removes stasis and promotes new blood circulation, promotes blood circulation and regulates menstruation. Angelica replenishes blood, promotes blood circulation, regulates menstruation and relieves pain. It can also make the skin white and rosy and improve the problem of cold hands and feet.

Put dried ginger in water - rheumatism, bone pain, fear of cold → dried ginger warms the middle and dispels cold, restores yang and unclogs the meridians.

Put 10 grams of Astragalus, 10 grams of Radix Pseudostellariae, 10 grams of Herba Lycopodii, and 6 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in water → Diabetes (caused by Yin deficiency) → Zanthoxylum bungeanum removes dampness; Astragalus replenishes Qi and strengthens the exterior; Herba Pseudostellariae can help the medicine penetrate the skin and penetrate deep into the body to exert its medicinal power.

4. Taboos of Foot Soaking

1. Avoid soaking right after a meal or on an empty stomach. It should be taken half an hour after a meal.

2. Avoid water temperature that is too high, it should be 40-50 degrees.

3. Avoid staying on for too long. It should take about 20 minutes until you start to sweat slightly.

4. Avoid taking your own initiative and putting Chinese medicine randomly.

5. Taboos of foot soaking: Women who are menstruating or pregnant, and patients with bleeding symptoms should not soak their feet.

When soaking your feet:

The upper body does not sweat, but the lower body sweats - cold kidneys;

The upper body is hot but the lower body does not sweat - Qi deficiency.