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What follows are a assortment of foot soaks or baths
to help ease, revive, and refresh your feet. Use a bucket or bowl large
enough so water can cover the feet over the ankles.
- For Calming and Cooling – Get
ready a cool bath with a handful of sandalwood fine particles or a
few drops of essential oil of sandalwood. This immerses cools the
whole body and frees the mind of the dilemma of the day. It is a
magnificent help for restful sleep on a hot summer’s night.
- For Invigorating – get a handful
each of trodden juniper berries, rosemary, and lavender. Prepare
these in a pint of boiling water, strain after ten minutes and add
to a hot foot bath.
- For Deodorizing – put a small
handful of sage, thyme, lavender, sweet marjoram, bay leaf, and a
table-spoon of rock salt and prepare them in one pint of boiling
water. Strain and add to a warm foot bath. Parting the herbs in
will create a stronger smell for deodorizing.
- For a Thick Head Cold – Prepare a
hot foot bath with a handful or 2 of ginger or mustard powder.
Grated fresh ginger or ginger essential oil can also be used.
Leave the feet in the solution until they are bright red. Pat dry
and put on warm socks. This procedure warms the whole body and
drains mucous and jamming from the head.
- For Burning Hot Feet – For this
condition, use a poultice of henna leaf powder and vinegar or lemon
juice. (Be cautious – Henna will dye your skin orange. Orange
palms and soles of the feet are a common sight in India and North
Africa.) Also, massaging the feet with bhringaraj oil is also
very cooling.
- For a Sound and Restful Sleep –
Massage the feet with warm sesame oil or ghee. Then soak the feet in a
hot herbal foot bath ready with warm herbs and spices, such as
ginger.
- Healing the Skin- Try a warm foot bath equipped with powerfully brewed marigold.
- For Hard Skin- Massage
the feet with sesame oil, then immerse them in a hot foot bath of
mustard or ginger tea solution. Organize the solution by mixing a
small teaspoon of ginger or mustard powder in one pint of boiling
water. Add to the bath. Allow the feet to get bright red, then
scrub them with a loofa or pumice stone. (For cracked heels, massage
in a paste of nutmeg and milk or apply a castor oil poultice.)
- For Sweaty Feet- Immerse your
feet in warm water with equal amounts of essential oils of mauve
and sage or clary sage, juniper, and cypress. Use 6 to 9 drops per
2.5 pints of water.
- For Tired Feet- Use a foot bath
that has juniper, rosemary, and lavender essential oils mixed in.
Scope should be the same as one’s given for Sweaty Feet foot bath.
- Nature’s Foot Bath- Take an early
morning barefoot walk, in cool, dewy grass. It is stimulating and
nourishing for body and soul. It is a standard in Kneipp
hydrotherapy and preferential in macrobiotic circles as an aid to
female reproductive health.
As a final note about feet, try to give them air as
much as probable. As bring up earlier, barefoot is best. However it is
not always sensible. At least go shoeless in your own home. Shoes trap
energy around the feet and in the long run can make you feel more
exhausted. They collect unconstructiveness which is one reason why they
are never worn in Indian temples. Take them off when you can.
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