Autumn and winter are the best seasons for health maintenance. In addition to dietary supplements, pregnant mothers can also use other methods to adjust their health. For example, foot bathing in traditional Chinese medicine is also a good way, which is called foot soaking for short. Of course, foot soaking is not as simple as using hot water to transfer temperature to the feet. For pregnant mothers, it is very important to choose appropriate medicinal materials for foot soaking. Therefore, if you want to enjoy a healthy bath, you must know the following 4 secrets.
1. Soaking feet in autumn and winter has many benefits
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the feet are the concentration of meridians of the human body. The lesions of the internal organs can affect each other through the meridians, and by dredging the qi and blood of the meridians, the effect of treating the lesions of the internal organs can be achieved. Foot soaking can use plantar reflex to mix different Chinese herbal medicines and boil them in water to dissolve the active ingredients into the water. After soaking the feet, on the one hand, the warm stimulation of the water promotes blood circulation, accelerates metabolism, and improves tissue nutrition. , on the one hand, the active ingredients of the medicine can penetrate the skin and deliver the medicine to the inside of the body through the meridians to exert different effects.
For pregnant mothers, foot massage can avoid drug irritation to the oral mucosa, digestive tract and gastrointestinal tract, and reduce the burden on the liver and kidneys. It is relatively safe and has few side effects. It is reported that foot massage therapy can also improve immunity, promote blood circulation, strengthen metabolism, regulate endocrine, and control weight and blood pressure. In addition, the anxiety and tension produced by pregnant mothers during pregnancy can also be relieved through foot massage.
2. Pregnant mothers should pay attention to foot soaking
1. Add ginger slices and Sichuan peppercorns to hot water.
Now that the weather is getting colder, pregnant mothers are more likely to suffer from various discomforts such as cold muscle aches, cold hands and feet, and cold stomach pain. Insisting on using hot water to soak your feet can promote the circulation of qi and blood in pregnant mothers, clear the meridians, relieve cold hands and feet, expand capillaries, and promote blood supply to the brain. Adding ginger slices, Sichuan peppercorns and other supplements to hot water has a better effect on dispelling wind and cold.
2. The water temperature of footbath should be slightly higher than body temperature.
If the water temperature of the foot bath is too high and the time is too long, it will cause the expectant mother\’s blood circulation to be too fast, the heart and brain to be overburdened, and symptoms such as sweating, palpitation, and even dizziness and collapse may occur. , harmful to the health of expectant mothers.
3. Do not press the soles of your feet casually when bathing your feet.
For pregnant mothers, stimulating certain acupuncture points on the feet is very likely to cause miscarriage. Do not add Chinese medicine that promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis in the footbath water, otherwise it may cause accidents. In addition, when expectant mothers suffer from severe athlete\’s foot (tinea pedis), it is best not to soak their feet in hot water to avoid rupture of blisters and infection of the wound, which is detrimental to mother and child.
4. The duration of foot bathing should not exceed twenty minutes.
Generally speaking, it is better for pregnant mothers to soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day, and it is best not to exceed half an hour. Soaking in the water from very hot to completely cold is a wrong approach and is equivalent to a wasted treatment. Generally, 20 to 30 minutes is appropriate, and 1 to 2 times a day is sufficient.
3. Pregnant mothers with high blood pressure should carefully choose medicinal materials for foot soaking
For example:There are all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine foot massages on the market today. Experts point out that the combination of more expensive medicinal materials is not more effective for your feet. The most important thing about foot massage therapy is to choose the medicine used for foot massage based on the different conditions of different diseases and syndrome differentiation. Some people think that people with high blood pressure cannot use foot massage and fumigation, but this is not true.
Foot massage has a very good auxiliary effect in the treatment of high blood pressure, but the medicinal materials must be carefully selected. For example, pregnant mothers who both suffer from high blood pressure will use different medicinal materials for the type of excessive liver yang and the type of excessive liver yang and deficiency.
1. Hypertension due to excessive liver yang: The affected pregnant mother shows symptoms such as dizziness, headache, flushing and irritability, dry mouth and bitter mouth. It is advisable to use medicinal materials such as achyranthes root, ochre, prunella vulgaris and other medicinal materials. Come and soak your feet. Astragalus, Atractylodes, etc. are suitable for patients with qi deficiency characterized by dizziness, less food, and fatigue.
2. Hypertension of the upper and lower deficiency type: the sick pregnant mother shows symptoms such as high systolic blood pressure and low diastolic blood pressure, dizziness, head bloating, backache, soft legs, cold feet and other symptoms. It is advisable to use kidney-tonifying and liver-tonifying products. Drugs, such as Cassia, Dragon Bone, Parasitism, etc.
Every pregnant mother needs to choose medicinal materials according to her own constitution when taking a foot bath. It is best to choose medicinal materials under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and not to be misled by advertisements. In addition, it is not advisable to choose a foot bath basin with a flat bottom, but a basin or bucket with an uneven bottom and a massage effect.
4. Misunderstandings about foot bathing that pregnant mothers need to avoid
Nowadays, many foot bath cities provide snacks, fruits and other meal services for guests to eat while bathing their feet. In fact, this Not healthy. For every healthy person, foot massage will speed up blood circulation throughout the body and make people feel dizzy when they are full, hungry or eating. Therefore, pregnant mothers should avoid such phenomena and avoid foot bathing on an empty stomach and immediately after meals.
In addition, pregnant women should avoid musk and other drugs that can cause miscarriage when soaking their feet. If there are skin diseases on the feet, it is recommended that pregnant mothers use certain drugs to fumigate to achieve therapeutic effects, but they must seek medical advice and cannot go to public places to bathe their feet. It is best to use a separate bucket at home to soak the feet and use local fumigation.