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For good foot care, it is essential to wash your feet daily to remove bacteria and dry thoroughly particularly between the toes. This will help to prevent fungal conditions such as athlete foot from developing and also stops smelly feet. Essential oils can also be added to the footbath. Add six drops of essential oil to a bowl of hand hot water just before you immerse the feet and soack for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Some foot care “receipts are as follows”

Athletes foot:

• 3 drops lavender and 3 drops of myrrh

Immune booster:

• 3 drops lemon and 3 drops tea tree

Tired, Swollen feet:

• 3 drops chamomile and 3 drops lavender

Restorative after a long hard day:

• 2 drops lavender
• 2 drops peppermint
• 2 drops rosemary

Stimulate Circulation:

• 2 drops geranium
• 2 drops black pepper
• 2 drops mandarin

Cracked or Chapped feet:

• 3 drops benzoin
• 3 drops patchouli

Besides the aforesaid mentioned footbath with essential oils, other tips offer by experts are as follows:

• walk around barefoot as often as possible. Feet do not like to be confined hence reducing chances of foot deformities
• always cut your toenails straight across to stop ingrowing toenail from occuring
• avoid socks that are made of synthetic fibres such as nylon which make the feet perspire. Wear cotton and wool socks.
• exercise your feet regularly to keep yourself supple and health

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Exercise, good food and healthy attitude play a vital role to achieve a healthy and fit body.

Incidentally, the number of overweight people is  estimated to be approximately 1.6 billion and at least 400 million are clinically obsese therefore making it one of the most serious health issues faced by human race.

Unbalanced lifestyle includes the following:

• late night snacks
• no exercise
• working late nights so as to rush for deadlines and successful career
• physical strains
• eating at irregular hours
• eating to de-stress

Such unbalanced lifestyle leads to fat being stored in our body and not burned. Hence health risks associated with weight prolems occur like cardiovascular problems, respiratory difficulties, infertility due to diabetes.

Experts have put up the following simple reminders to create a healthier you:

1. Take mini breaks away from the desk. Move your body, stretch it, bend it
2. Drink,drink and drink pure fresh water- drinking more water can help you look and feel better as it flushes out toxims and gives you more energy
3. Treat yourself to relaxing massages to loosen your body muscles at least once a month
4. Find an exercise regime which you love. When you do it what you love, you will stick to it.
5. Perhaps, cleaning chores in your house is an effective way to get more exercise.
6. Choose to eat lots of fruits and vegetables
7. Eliminate use of white sugar
8. Eat at the right time, preferably four hours before your bedtime.

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Scientific researches have found that walking fast can improve the function of the heart system and respiratory organs, lower the quantity of cholesterol in blood and prevent high blood prssure. Furthermore, in a survey conducted by Japanese scientists in a village known for a large number of old people enjoying long life, it is found that the people there have the habit of walking fast.

This walking fast can complimented very well with the specific medical Qigong practise which is “WALKING  AS FAST AS THE WIND” & “SITTING AS STABLE AS A BELL”

Walking as fast as the wind” here means to walk fast with strong and vigorous strides ( how far the distance to walk would be in accordance with his/her physical ability.) The rationale being after walking one is full of vigor, feel completely relaxed mentally and physically and the symptoms of disease disappear or become fewer. Of course, initially, the practitioner normally will feel a little tired and have a slight ache at the waist and legs).

“Sitting as stable as a bell” - to be practise before and after the vigorous walking. It  means we should sit as stable as a bell. Here, any type of posture can be taken but the body should be upright . When sitting, imagine there is a golden ring of light around the navel. Slightly put the mind on the ring. Sit for a quarter of an hour or shorter if you wish.

Why this combination you may ask. This is to do with the saying ” to combine activity with tranquility” or yin and yang concept. The combination of “walking as fast as the wind ” & sitting as stable as a bell” make ” warding off sickness by walking” possible.

The idea is to initially walk one or two times every day each time about half an hour. Walk at an even, steady rhythmic pace, walk in a relaxed state. After you feel that that your mental and physical health as improve, walk longer and faster.

(extracted from Medical Qigong by Master Huang Runtian)

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Do you want to protect your teeth? One suggestion is to use teeth tapping exercise .

Teeth tapping is basically the tapping of the upper and lower teeth on one another.

It existed more than 1,500 years ago and was mentioned by Ge Hong, a Jin Dynasty specialist in maintaining health in his book Bao Pu Zi ( The Book of Master Baopu). Here, it mentioned that ” the teeth will never get loose if they are tapped for more than 300 times every morning”

Interestingly, in China, it was found that many people with long life have a habit of gritting their teeth during urination and defecation. By gritting the teeth, massage is applied to their roots, promoting the local blood circulation and nutrient supply and thus strengthening the teeth. Since the digestive system starts from the teeth, it is certainly beneficial to one’s health to have good teeth. That is the “secret” of longevity to teeth tapping.

Steps:

1. After getting up in the morning or in the evening or before going to sleep, tap on the molars firsts, the incisors next and then the cannines. They should be tapped separately because they are not on the same horizontal plane.
2.  After the tapping, lick the gums and buccal mucosa with thetongue to simulate secretion of saliva. Garge with the saliva several times and then swallow it. In traditional Chinese medicine, saliva is considered a kind of body fluid that should be not expectorated.
3. Then massage the gums with the tongue, thereby improving the gingival blood circulation.
4. Then grit the teeth and puff out the cheeks to increase salivary secretion. Swallow the saliva in several gulps.
5. This teeth-protection exercise can be done in about 10 minutes with forty to fifty repetitions of the abovementioned actions. The more repetitions the better the results.

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Do you know that blinking and proper breathing helps to improve your eyesight?Try this exercise of Blinking and Breathing:

1. First give 6 rapids and light blinks
2. Shut your eye slowly for the gap of two whole breaths and repeat 4 times
3.  You should not have more than a few seconds pass between one blink and the next. As a rough guide, between two and four blinks in each period of 10 seconds is right
4. Do the eye staring and hold it for a while to make eyes immobile. Stop breathing during the process for about few seconds. Relax. Blink your eyes rapidly as you take two big breaths whenever you do the staring and breathing.

Practice the above rountine regularly, twice or more a day which will help to establish the correct tone in the muscle of the eyelids and develop better habitss of blinking.

( Barnes, Jonathan. Improve Your Eyesight: A guide to the Bates Method for Better Eyesight without Glasses)

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