12/12/2009

Heal feet - First Aid


Sore feet in a bucket of warm water add 1 drop of peppermint and 4 drops of lavender oil. Soak feet for 10 minutes in the bath to reduce swelling and burning.

Blisters: Apply a few drops of lavender oil on a cold pack or a patch and attach to the blisters and sensitive sites. Allow at least 10 minutes.

Cracked heels: in deep cracks, apply a moisturizing balm several times a day as a precaution against further cracking and bleeding.

Corns: Avoiding a higher pressure and attach a patch for callus with salicylic acid. Do not use solutions because they can penetrate the surrounding healthy skin and irritate it.

Varicose veins - Prevention: Prevention of exercise can help, or swimming, because physical activity improves blood circulation. Moreover, it conforms to the leg above the feet and legs lean a hard edge of the chair. At regular intervals during the day and most evenings after the leg up. Eat a diet high in fiber to avoid constipation. To stimulate bowel activity has aloe vera juice.

Foot swelling: Soak the legs to the knees alternately in containers of cold and warm water with a pinch of sea salt.

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