Healing foot baths
Cold foot bath
For healthy people, this procedure is used as a refreshing, hardening, firming organism. A cold foot bath improves blood circulation, increases blood flow down from the head and chest, relieves fatigue, improves blood vessels and heart work, cures insomnia. This method is useful for those who have colds on their feet appear abscesses, or with cold feet syndrome.
It is possible to begin hardening of the legs if the body temperature is high enough( within the limits of the norm), otherwise the person will feel a chill and the procedure will not be of use.
Immerse your feet in caviar in cold water. The procedure should not last more than 1 minute. People who are too sensitive to cold should start with cool water, gradually lowering its temperature.
A warm foot bath with wood ash In warm water at a temperature of 37-39 ° C, put a handful of salt and two handfuls of wood ash and mix well. The duration of the bath is 12-15 minutes. Such baths are useful for people who are debilitated, elderly, and also for women in menopause.
Warm and contrasting foot baths with salt and wood ash soothe and have beneficial effects in circulatory disorders, hot flashes and headaches, sore throat, convulsions.
Warm saline bath with pine extract and lemon juice
Pour 3 l of warm water with a temperature of 37-39 ° C into the basin, add 3 tablespoons of sea or common table salt, 2 tablespoons of pine extract and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Duration of the procedure is 15 minutes.
This bath tones tired feet, relieves pain, improves blood circulation in the extremities.
A warm herbal bath
With inflammation of the skin of the feet, the bath with a decoction of chamomile, nettle, lime blossom and flaxseed seed helps well. Put in a pan for a handful of each kind of dry raw material, pour 1 liter.steep boiling water. Insist for 30 minutes. Strain the broth pour into a basin, add 2 liters of water of the desired temperature and put your feet in the bath for 20-30 minutes.
Warm saline bath with herbal decoction Swelling of the feet perfectly removes the foot bath with decoction of lime and mint flowers with the addition of sea or table salt. Pour 1 liter of boiling water over 2 handfuls of lime-colored and mint. Pour the filtered broth into the basin, add a handful of salt and water of the right temperature. The duration of the procedure is 15 minutes.
Cool foot bath with hay trimmings 3-5 handfuls of hay drizzle place in a large saucepan, pour boiling water, cover and let cool. When the infusion temperature drops to 25-26 ° C, strain and pour the infusion into the pelvis. The procedure lasts for 20 minutes. Such a bath is useful for joint pains, excessive sweating, bruises and leg injuries, tumors, purulent inflammation of the skin, gout, calluses.
Cool foot bath with oat straw decoction
Pour oat straw with boiling water and place the container on a slow fire for 30 minutes. Then leave the broth to cool to a temperature of 25-26 ° C, then strain and use for the foot bath. The duration of the procedure is 20 minutes. The bath helps with gouty pains, articular rheumatism, calluses, ingrown nails, purulent wounds on the legs. This method is also used for increased sweating. The procedure should be 2-3 times a day.
Hot foot bath
Hot foot bath is an excellent remedy for colds. It is most convenient to do this procedure directly in the bath. Undress, wrap yourself in a blanket and sit on the crossbar in the bath. Lower your feet into a bucket of hot water at a temperature that will sustain your legs. As cooling, pour hot water directly from the tap. The edge of the blanket should close the bucket, then the water will cool more slowly. For a stronger effect, you can add to the bucket 50-100 g of mustard powder. Continue the procedure until the forehead is covered with perspiration.
After such a bath you need to take a warm shower without soap to wash away sweat, go to bed and drink a cup of sudorific tea.
Contrasting foot baths
Contrasting foot baths are a very useful procedure. It is used for hardening, severe sweating, cold feet syndrome, often found in women, diseases of the musculoskeletal system and vessels of the extremities, migraines. Contrast baths help relieve foot fatigue, swelling and pain after a heavy load. Such baths improve blood circulation and tone well. It is not recommended to apply this procedure during an exacerbation of heart and kidney diseases.
Place next to two basins with hot( 40-42 ° C) and cold( 10-12 ° C) water. Alternately, dip your feet on the ankle then in the hot( for 1-2 minutes), then in the cold( for 15-20 seconds) water. You can start with more comfortable temperatures and shorter durations of each procedure: immerse the feet for 15 seconds in hot water at a temperature of 36 ° C, for 5 seconds in a cold temperature of 23-22 ° C.Contrast baths should be applied daily or every other day, treatment course - 12-20 procedures.