What is the reason for heel cracking? What medicine does cracked heel use?

The heel is an easily overlooked part, so we often forget to take care of it. Some people's heels will peel off or even crack. What is the reason? Wearing sandals or single shoes in summer reveals the heel crack at a glance, especially in winter. How painful is the heel crack? What medicine should be used for the heel crack?

1. Treating Heel Cracking by Soaking Foot with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Materials: peach kernel 15g, safflower 10g, astragalus membranaceus 10g, angelica sinensis 10g.

Usage The above is the dosage of one pair of medicine. It is better to buy more than one pair at a time. Mash the peach kernel (ask the pharmacy staff for help when buying medicine), put it in a cotton bag with other medicines, put it in a casserole and boil it with water for 20 minutes. After turning off the fire, stew for a while, take out the cotton bag, and pour the medicine soup into the basin to soak your feet until the water reaches your ankles. Soak your feet for 20 minutes every day for at least 3 days.

Peach kernel has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Peach kernel is rich in oil and can moisturize the skin of feet. Safflower has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging menstruation and relieving pain. Peach kernel and safflower, one can turn visible congestion, and the other can turn invisible congestion. Astragalus has the function of invigorating qi and promoting granulation, and can promote the growth of new meat in cracks. Angelica sinensis can nourish blood and promote blood circulation, promote heel blood circulation and promote fracture healing.

After soaking your feet, pour out the residue in the cotton bag, wash it and dry it for the next time. If the basin is big, you need to use more Chinese medicine, which can be doubled.

Precautions: The water temperature of patients with diabetes and hypertension should not be too high.

2. Causes of heel cracking

First, dry skin, seasonal changes (such as autumn and winter) lead to insufficient skin moisture.

Second, it can be caused by vitamin deficiency in the body. No matter what causes the cracked heel, it is necessary to treat both internal and external causes in order to treat both the symptoms and root causes.

Third, because the foot skin is prone to chapping, the main reasons are the decline of epidermal regeneration ability, the decrease of the number of sweat glands with active skin surface energy, the decrease of sebaceous gland secretion, the loss of skin moisture, and the thickening of stratum corneum.

3. What should I do after cracking?

1, soak your feet every day

Soak your feet often and don't dry them. Directly apply oil such as vaseline and snake oil ointment. Oil can protect the stratum corneum and reduce pain. You can put a plastic bag or plastic wrap on your feet and put on socks to sleep all night. Get up the next morning, take off your socks, take off the plastic wrap or plastic bag, and wash your feet with a layer of oil, and it will be fine soon. Heel chapped, there are several points to pay attention to: first, don't cut and tear the skin, so as not to form a wound.

2. Don't wear shoes that are too high or too tight, and walk less.

So as not to rub the heel and thicken the stratum corneum; Also, don't soak your heels in water for too long, preferably not more than 30 minutes.

3, you can eat some vitamin B complex and vitamin C.

You can take some vitamin B complex and vitamin C, and then cooperate with the external application of the crack cream, which will generally relieve quickly. In the meantime, drink plenty of water and eat fresh fruits and vegetables with more vitamins, such as kiwi fruit, apples, tomatoes, bananas and strawberries. And don't eat spicy food.

Go to the mall to buy a bottle of BB oil and add some moisturizing cream. Insist on soaking your feet with hot water every day and then apply it to the cracked area. Many people ask what to do if the heel is cracked. There are two main reasons for chapped heels, one is dry skin in winter, dehydration of cuticle and lack of water, and the other is caused by fungal infection.

Fungal infection can cause many foot diseases, such as beriberi and blisters, and chapped foot skin is one of them. Some people soak their feet with vinegar, which is very effective, indicating that he is caused by fungal infection. Soaking feet with rice vinegar is an old method. Vinegar can inhibit fungi. Now the hospital has a medicine called glacial acetic acid water solution, which is also used to soak feet, and the effect is good. But after soaking, remember to apply moisturizing cream immediately to keep your skin moist.

4. Pay attention to washing feet

For people with split high heels, we must pay attention to the science of washing feet, and we can't just take them.

1, avoid using alkaline detergent. When washing feet in winter, you should avoid using too many detergents such as alkaline soap. You should choose a non-irritating neutral foot washing liquid, preferably containing calcium pantothenate, vitamin E, aloe and other moisturizing and skin care ingredients. You should get into the good habit of applying skin care products immediately after washing your feet.

2. Avoid washing feet frequently. Excessive washing will completely wash off the oil normally secreted on the skin surface, resulting in dry and cracked skin.

3. Avoid excessive water temperature. The water temperature should not be overheated when washing feet, and the optimum water temperature is between 20℃ and 25℃. If there is a crack in your heel, don't scald it with hot water, which will not only be detrimental to the healing of the crack, but will aggravate the condition.

5, the diet should be reasonable

Vitamin A can promote epithelial growth, protect skin and prevent chapping. Eat more foods containing vitamin A in the diet, such as carrots, beans, green leafy vegetables, fish, liver, milk and so on. Eating more fruits and vegetables is effective in preventing chapped heels. Eating more fat and sugar foods can increase sebaceous gland secretion and reduce dry and chapped skin. Of course, the above are just some common sense to prevent chapped heels. For example, in the event of chapped heels, topical drugs such as urea ointment and salicylic acid ointment can be used for symptomatic treatment under the guidance of a doctor.

6, remedies for the treatment of chapped heels

1, external coating method

Mainly promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain. 65438+/-00g of Radix Aconiti and Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, 20g of Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Myrrha, Carthami Flos, Sanguis Draxonis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra and Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, grinding into fine powder, and soaking twice. Soak in 500 ml of 80% alcohol for 3 days for the first time and filter; Soaking in 750ml alcohol for 4 days for the second time, and filtering; Combine the two liquid medicines, let stand for 1 day, filter the liquid medicines, and seal the bottle for later use. Apply the liquid medicine directly to the painful part every time, and massage the heel repeatedly for half an hour, 3~5 times a day. Three weeks is 1 course of treatment, until the swelling and pain are relieved and you can walk freely.

2, drug insole method

Divide Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Evodia rutaecarpa and Schisandra chinensis equally, grind into powder, sew a cloth bag according to the size of shoes, put the powder into the cloth bag, seal it, put it into shoes, and change the powder in the bag every five days.

3. Shiatsu massage

Take Kunlun point and Taixi point, where Kunlun point is located in the depression between the lateral malleolus and achilles tendon, and Taixi point is located in the depression between the medial malleolus and achilles tendon, and level the medial malleolus. Massage every morning and evening 1 time. In the morning, press the acupoints with the tip of your thumb, turn inward three times and turn outward three times, and each acupoint lasts for 5 minutes. In the evening, use the pressing method, with the tip of the thumb pressed on the acupoints, and press and lift each acupoint for 5 minutes.