- Does Foot Detox Machine Really
Detoxify?
By Junji Takano
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- Did you know what "Foot
Spa" or "Ashiyu" in Japanese is? Just soak your
feet in a shallow hot spring. If your feet become warm, then
your whole body will feel warm, too. You will be relaxed just
like you are taking a bath in a hot spring.
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Foot Spa was originated and translated
from a Japanese legend
occurred about 1,600 years ago. It was narrated by a group of
sickly people and monks who made pilgrimage. One evening, in
a
deep mountain, the group looked around to find a place to rest
their exhausted body. They saw a hot spring streaming out of
the
rock where they decided to make their shanty for the night.
Before going to sleep, they placed their feet to the hot stream
to relieve their fatigue. When they woke up the next morning,
they noticed that they felt healthier than ever before. The
group completed their journey of pilgrimage, and they were
informed by their physicians that their illnesses were gone.
This occurrence of miraculous
healing power spread around from
villages to villages. Thousands of people followed the same
route of pilgrimage, and some doctors and renowned physicians
found that foot spa has something to do with healing.
*Modern Foot Spa*
Today, we know the healing power
of foot spa with different
kinds of mineral contents in hot springs. Or with modern foot
spa equipped with electronics device such as an ion producer
and
adding herbs in it, are sold.
However, none of Japanese manufacturers
claim that it can do
detoxification through feet. They just claim that it can help
in
rejuvenating your health, removing fatigue and other
stress-oriented illnesses (e.g. neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago,
poor blood circulation, hemorrhoids, fatigue, dry skin, bruise,
frostbite, chapped hand, miliaria (heat rash), allergies,
pimples, migraine, insomnia, headaches, sinusitis, stiff neck
and shoulders, sport injuries). |
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The recommended temperature is 40-42
°C, and time duration of about 10-25 minutes per treatment.
You can do it many times as
you desire.
*The Truth on Foot Detox*
Is foot detox really true? Actually,
there is no definite medical proof about foot detox. Our own
research also indicates either "Yes" or "No".
Whatever the results of our researches, it is true that foot
detox with minerals or herbs or electrodes added, will help in
relieving fatigue and stress, and energize the body system, leading
you to good health.
Also, our own research indicated
that foot detox does not clean your body's wastes or toxic wastes
as others claim. The public may be swayed by the water "miraculously"
turning brown or black in color. However, it’s proven that
the changes in color are caused basically by the "electrolysis"
of water.
And most of them claim that foot
detox machines:
1. Enhance body detoxification
- UNCERTAIN
2. Deactivate viruses, bacteria, yeast, and fungus - UNCERTAIN.
3. Reduce pain - YES (muscle
or lymph-oriented pain only)
4. Purify the blood and lymph - NO (it helps in circulating them)
5. Stimulate the immune system - NO
6. Promote weight loss - YES and NO
7. Relieve tension - YES
8. Reduce inflammation - Depends on the sickness
9. Toxic matters and toxic fats can be detoxicated - NO
10. Improve oxygen levels in the body - YES and NO
11. Balances negative ions in the body - NO
12. Liver, kidney and parasite cleaning - NO
13. Removes wrinkles, acne and other skin problems - YES and
NO
To make foot spa more effective,
placing natural herbs or additives you probably have in your
kitchen can help a lot. These herbs and additives help you prevent
getting hundreds of illnesses, too:
1. Leaves of pine tree - boil
about 5 minutes
2. Green tea
3. Dried skin of citrus fruits
4. Grinded garlic, ginger, and hot pepper
5. Bamboo leaves
6. Dried radish or carrot leaves
7. Corn silk or maize
8. Citrus skin
There are hundreds of additives
known since hundreds of years ago in Japan. However, the above
noted are the well-known additives for general use. All of them
are good for treating skin allergies, dry and oily skin, fatigue,
stress, insomnia, asthma, headache, rheumatism, arthritis, common
cold and many others according to ancient books.
Now, you understand that foot
spa is good in revitalizing or rejuvenating your health especially
when herbs or some medicinal properties are added to the water.
If you are traveling to several
hot springs, it contains minerals which are usually specified
in the guidebooks of travel agents.
History tells its effectiveness.
Why don't you try it? Oh, it is more recommendable to use wooden
pail rather than metallic or plastic ones. According to the wisdom
of our ancestors, "wooden pail" has the power to heal
your sickness.
*Foot Reflexology*
We have other information that
"foot reflexology", an ancient natural therapy which
utilizes energy zones on the feet, can provide relief for variety
of illnesses as well as energize the body system. According to
a Chinese acupuncture theory, there are reflex areas in the feet
which correspond to all parts of the body and these areas are
arranged in such a way to form a map of the body.
Foot reflexologies such as acupuncture
and moxibustion have been practiced since 4,500 years ago in
China, Egypt, Korea, and Japan. Now it became very popular in
many parts of the world including Europe and USA. |
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