Soaking your feet at night can dredge the kidney yin meridian, but you need to pay attention to some situations!

The feet are the base camp of Yin blood. The three Yin meridians of the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, the Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian and the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian all converge here. The kidney produces blood, the liver stores blood, and the spleen controls blood. Therefore, soaking your feet has many benefits. It can not only replenish blood, treat dysmenorrhea, and warm the spleen and stomach, but also has good therapeutic effects of improving cold hands and feet and removing dampness. It can be said to be able to cure all diseases.

Why can soaking your feet at night replenish blood? Blood deficiency and blood stasis can lead to a series of symptoms such as cold hands and feet, dull tongue, spots on the face, chest tightness and shortness of breath. When soaking your feet at night, add safflower (spicy, warm in nature, belongs to the liver meridian and pericardium meridian, breaks blood, promotes blood circulation, harmonizes blood, and regulates blood) to the hot water, which can activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, dredge the three yin meridians of the kidney, liver, and spleen, and treat a series of symptoms caused by blood deficiency and blood stasis.

Tips for foot soaking

Soaking your feet in spring can open up the sun and strengthen the body; soaking your feet in summer can remove dampness and heat;

Soaking your feet in autumn can clear your intestines and moisten your lungs; soaking your feet in winter can warm your dantian.

① Put ginger, tangerine peel and mint in the water, which has a good effect of warming the spleen and stomach and removing dampness for people with weak spleen and stomach;

② Putting pepper in water can remove odor and dampness, promote the flow of qi and water, and support yang energy;

③Putting white peony root, motherwort and Chinese angelica in water can improve dysmenorrhea caused by body coldness or qi stagnation and blood stasis. White peony root can remove yin qi, relieve abdominal pain and smooth blood vessels; motherwort can remove blood stasis, promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation; Chinese angelica can replenish blood, promote blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain, and can also make the skin fair and rosy, and improve problems such as cold hands and feet;

④ Adding dried ginger to water can treat rheumatic bone pain and fear of cold. Dried ginger warms the middle and dispels cold, restores yang and unclogs the meridians.

⑤ Put 10g of Astragalus, 10g of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, 10g of Herba Lycopodii, and 6g of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in water, which can achieve a good therapeutic effect on diabetes caused by yin deficiency. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can remove dampness, Astragalus can replenish qi and strengthen the exterior, and Herba Lycopodii can help the medicine penetrate the skin and penetrate into the body to exert its medicinal effect.

Four taboos of foot soaking

1. Avoid soaking your feet right after a meal or on an empty stomach. Choose to soak your feet half an hour after a meal.

2. Avoid water temperature that is too high. The suitable temperature is 40-50 ℃.

3. Avoid soaking your feet for too long. The soaking time should be about 20 minutes, until you sweat slightly.

4. Avoid taking initiative and using Chinese medicine randomly.