Autumn and winter health

Now people's living conditions have improved, many people have shower facilities at home, can take a bath, but also the way to wash the feet together, so many of my friends do not understand why Paojiao would like to stress?

First, promote blood circulation. Feet since ancient times in the second heart of the human body, said. From the theory of health, the foot farthest from the heart of the human body, and the heaviest burden, the place most likely to lead to poor blood circulation, the medical record books: "There's feet, it Yousi tree roots and tree root dry First dried up, old people feet first failure. "Especially for those who often feel cold hands and feet, Paojiao is an excellent method.

Secondly, to stimulate acupuncture points of the feet, reflexology and meridian. Many people have done foot, masseur at the foot of the pressure we will feel Tongteng, Suanzhang, which is basically the reflection of our district organs in question. So, when we finish foot massage, all will feel relaxed. At the same time, human feet are 6 main channels, including three by Yang (by the bladder, stomach, bile by) the termination, and the three Yin (by the spleen, liver, as the kidneys as a starting point, in feet , Therefore, is equivalent to Paojiao to stimulate the six main meridians.

Third, the treatment of many diseases, there is a very good supporting role. It is often said: "Chi Buyao rich, the poor foot bubble." Paojiao can see a great role. Especially in today's society, the use of air-conditioning, together with the people in general love to eat cold food, so the body more Cold, Paojiao can speed up the row in the body cold.

Paojiao through a lot of people who have the experience, Paojiao, will feel cold knee on alpine body of water Paojiao are being forced to traditional Chinese medicine and in vitro. So if you had a cold a cold, and sometimes do not have to take medicine, foot bubble, sweating, cold body will be dispersed on the OK. There are many people with high blood pressure, if the long-term Paojiao will be made at the end of the human body to improve blood circulation, blood pressure slowly on down. In short, to understand the reason, to do the practice, Paojiao the benefits of your own that only the most clear. How do we correctly Paojiao it?

How to Paojiao

That's how to do Paojiao? Now I give you a method we use for many years.

First, the election of Paojiao barrels.

Since it is Paojiao, it is necessary to reflect a "bubble" years. "Bubble" embodiment here is that the more water, enough to heat, long time. Can not get a basin of water on the release point line. Did not achieve any health effect, that is, feet up, rather than Paojiao.

The right choice is to buy a bucket of deep should be able to put a whole leg of the kind. Why choose this bucket? One is easier to heat, and the other is close to nature. Some people told me that the main wood liver, kidney water main, such a vesicles can help liver and kidney toxins. It really makes sense, I Wucongkaozheng, is a anyway I Paojiao barrel, more than feeling comfortable to use plastic barrels.

At present, this Paojiao barrels in the port city of Beijing Mei Zhu Bo sale prices were relatively cheap, I bought two years ago, only a 50, two days before one of our friends went to her, tell me , That price has already become history, and now all the more than 100. That you play on your skill, and house-to-house cut it, cut over, I tell you how much is bought. In fact, some of the city is also selling furniture, a little expensive.

Second, it is necessary to select heating equipment.

On the market to sell this Paojiao barrels, there is no heating equipment, so that we Paojiao, sometimes feel the cool water and had to heat water inside, the need to get people to do, so the feeling is too much trouble. I would like a simple approach is to use hot water boil faster, as a barrel on heating equipment, is simple and save money. However, some Netizen may think that this will not be leakage, or a hot, I think it might be a bit dangerous to small, but I use more than two years, as long as the note did not find the problem. If you do not rest assured that in the heat, feet up, well, and so increase the heat, add back.

Hot on the fast water heating
Hot fast this thing, the market will be more than 10 yuan. Buy the kind of big-power point, the ceramic heating rod that is better. Although the copper heat faster, but it seems a long love scale, and the relatively slow heating of stainless steel.

Thirdly, how to confirm the effect Paojiao.

Paojiao must use hot water, we usually use the bathroom of the nozzle, will Paojiao put hot water in the bucket, and then moved to the sofa while a barrel, while watching the television Paojiao. My daughter often Paojiao side, the side of the homework. This way and that. But the move vat of water, is a live effort, if not a man of the house, they ought to not move, as long as they can scoop up the first part of the water. If the business can be made with the wheel barrels would be enough.

If you feel cool, you can rub the feet covered with cloth insulation
That is how good foot soak it up? That is to soak your back feeling a little wave, or the sweat on his forehead, even better. Attention, do not sweat out. Khan, for the heart because of the fluid. Will be sweating too much sad. As long as Weihan out on the OK to show your up and down through the meridians. This is also proved that if you pass the meridian of a way. I generally up to 20 minutes of sweat, and some people need a long time to soak sweat, and some do not even sweating. Of course, if you soak for 40 minutes, not sweat, they do not bubble up. Bubble for too long, the body of the futility of it. Slowly, perhaps not today, sweating, sweating is not tomorrow, a week after a sweat. If you do not sweat it, just do not.

IV. Paojiao whether or not to increase Chinese medicine in the water.

The foot has done a lot of people know that in the first Paojiao massage before, but it also put Chinese side. Do you want to take medicine, it may be. If you sweat white blisters will be able to show that you can pass the meridian is, do not have to put on traditional Chinese medicine, if you do not sweat soak for 30 minutes, then need to get some medicine. The purpose of traditional Chinese medicine, promoting blood circulation is cold. The increase in the end what kind of medicine do. I give you an old masseuse said to me Paojiao a prescription, for several years, the effect is very good.

Show-down prescription Paojiao

This is the old masseur told me that a side Paojiao. By all the prescription and sale of traditional Chinese medicine to the pharmacy, told the staff that this is Paojiao side to his drug crushed into a face full of you.

Safflower 5g, 100 5g, HE 5g, living alone 5g, gardenia 4g, Tougucao 4g, Asarum 3g, Clematis 3g

This is a pay-acting drug, once you pay ten on the line. Can be used in the first half. How much does not.

When they get back from the drugstore Paojiao powder, you need to find a stockings, put a 10-20 grams, a good line, on cask, at this time, you have to use a hot water bath of red, liquid Opened on red, yellow, very clear, there is a drug scent.

The whole family can use this drug along with the bubble, not athlete's foot infection. Paowan children, LP bubble, you are no longer the last bubble. Paojiao a bucket of water, three individual services. Some people will be very life, every day that drug use is a waste, the province would like to point, line does not work? In general, in the autumn and winter, the syrup can be used for more than 3 days. As long as you do not feel that the muddy liquid, non-tacky drawing, we can continue to use it. But if the next day to continue, had to use thermal heat faster, and a vat of water, heating it would take too long, and worthwhile to do so, you have to consider it.

Tansy Cakes and Wild Medicine

It started with the Tansy cakes. I had to ask myself 'Why would anyone eat anything so utterly disgusting in taste'? Chrysanthemum Vulgare is a common perennial in the British Isles and the name Tansy is said to be derived from the Greek 'athansia', meaning 'immortal'. Reasons suggested for this include the fact that the dried flower lasts forever or that it has a medicinal quality contributing to long life. Looking back to Greek literature, Tansy was given by the Gods to Ganymede to make him immortal. In the language of flowers the gift of Tansy means 'Rejected address' - " I am not interested in you". Its strange taste, not unlike the smell of 'mothballs' might have something to do with this.

Tansy certainly had a reputation as a vermicide and vermifuge (killing and dispelling intestinal worms) in the middle ages. John Gerard wrote in his 17th century Herball:

"In the Spring time are made with the leaves here of newly sprung up, and with eggs, cakes of Tansies, which be pleasant to taste, and good for the stomacke. For if any bad humours cleave there unto, it doth perfectly concoct them and scoure them downewards".

Tansy was a common kitchen garden herb for medicinal and culinary use, in place of expensive foreign spices such as nutmeg and cinnamon. It was used to flavour custard, cakes, milk puddings, omlettes and freshwater fish. In Ireland it was included in sausages called 'Drisheens'. Its use as a springtime 'cleanser' became ritualised into a part of the Christian religious Easter traditions;

"On Easter Sunday be the pudding seen, To which the Tansy lends her sober green."

The consensus on this much written about herb is that it was used at Easter to purify the blood after lent. This consensus shows a problem though, in that in England the plant does not show leaves until the end of May - well after Easter. This is evidence of the assimilation of natural 'self-medicating' herbalism into a controlling religious patriarchy.

Observation of wild and domesticated animals shows that they regularly self-medicate with wild plants. Sick chimpanzees chew bitter leaves from a bush not normally part of their diet, and then recover. Research by Michael Hoffman shows that a particular nematode worm is common in the monkey's gut during the rainy season and that their chewing of the leaves coincided with the prevalence of this parasite, which it destroyed. This was the same bush that local tribes use to get rid of stomach parasites.

Dogs and cats self medicate by eating couch grass or cleavers. Parrots, chickens, camels, snow geese, starlings - all have been observed consuming substances normally alien to their diet to remedial effect. Bears particularly are venerated by North American Indian culture because they symbolise the powers of 'regeneration'. North American Indians discovered the use of a root called Osha from bears. It is so effective as an all round painkiller, antiviral, antipeptic that it is now on the endangered species list.

The Woolly Bear caterpillar has also been observed to change its diet according to whether it is infected by a particular parasite. Normally a Lupin eater, the caterpillar increases its chance of surviving a particular fly parasite by changing to a diet of Poison Hemlock. Self-medication is not therefore a 'rational choice' in other species, but a carefully integrated part of a survival mechanism against an invisible predator - disease. Humans seem to have lost this sense of their own health and are not usually informed as to the uses of plants growing around them.

Humans often self-medicate though - alcohol indulgence to deal with stress being an obvious example of this or the ready availability of pharmaceutical or street drugs. We often consume substances such as caffeine or sugar drinks for easy energy. The natural trait towards self-medicating may well be at the basis of many of our unconscious 'eating choices'. Potatoes contain a form of opiate and all foods to some extent can act as 'alteratives' to a unique physiology. We talk about comfort foods and rewarding ourselves with treats to eat. Often we might have a favourite food that can help if we feel too ill to eat, like scrambled egg. This is a unique food because it contains all of the amino acids we need to digest it. Chocolate is to many the ultimate comfort food treat.

An extreme example of what we do is shown in 'Pica' where a person gets uncontrollable desires to eat certain edible (and inedible) substances. This condition is occurs in pregnant women and is thought to express the need for particular minerals. Because our food sources are often limited to processed food, and because of the destruction of herbal folk-lore and access to wild medicine, many of us have lost touch with our 'health sense' or ability to use food or wild plants as preventative or curative self-medication.

But finally the wheel is turning and people want access to this more holistic and gentle sense of health that is prevalent in other medical philosophies such as Chinese or Tibetan. If you like the taste of mothballs you could even try Tansy cakes.