Getting soaked

Ginger and bai jiu (white spirit)

Ingredients: Ginger slices (50g), white spirit (50ml)

Directions: Boil the ginger in water and keep boiling for a few mintues. Add ginger soup and white spirit to hot water in a basin. Soak for 15-30 minutes or until there's a slight sweat.

Benefits: Helps unblock energy channels, dispels pathogenic yin (cold energy), reinforces yang (hot energy). Especially good for those with cold extremitiesin winter.

Ginger (left) and dandelion (right).

Ginger and dandelion

Ingredients: Ginger (50g), dandelion (50g)

Directions: Cook ingredients in water. Add soup to hot water in a basin. Soak for around 20 minutes or until there's a slight sweat.

Benefits: Ginger helps dispel pathogenic cold. Dandelion helps dispel pathogenic heat and toxins. It helps relieve symptoms of flu with fever or headache.

Green bean (left) and bai zhi (right).

Green beans and bai zhi (angelica dahurica root)

Ingredients: Green beans (100g), bai zhi (15g)

Directions: Soak bean and angelica in water for 20 minutes. Cook ingredients. Add soup to foot bath. Soak 15-30 minutes, until you sweat.

Benefits: Green beans help relieve swelling and nourish skin; bai zhi is anti-bacterial, helps relieve inflammation and accelerates metabolism. This could also prevent and relieve chilblains.

Dang gui (left) and cassia twig (right).

For menstrual pains

Ingredients: Rose (30g), saffron (30g), dang gui (angelica) (50g), chuan xiong (hemlock parsley) (30g), cassia twig (30g), artemisia leaf (50g)

Directions: Cook all ingredients in water for half an hour. Add mixture to foot bath, add two spoons of white spirits. Soak for 15-30 minutes.

Benefits: Recommended before menstrual periods. Helps reinforce kidneys (reproductive system), promotes blood circulation and dissolves blood stagnation.

Rose (left), saffron (middle) and chuan xiong (right).

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