Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, died at the age of 86. He paid great attention to health preservation and wrote a poem: "The old man is no longer a farmer, but counts chickens and dolphins. It's really fast to wash your feet and go to bed, and your little grandson will gradually get rid of the soup. Explain the comfortable experience of soaking feet with hot water before going to bed.
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Soaking feet with hot water before going to bed is one of the traditional health care methods in China. Soak your feet with water at 40-60 degrees Celsius until your ankles are submerged for 20-30 minutes, during which hot water is often added to keep the temperature. This can not only expand the tiny blood vessels in the foot, promote the blood circulation of the whole body, but also activate the phagocytic function of reticuloendothelial system, enhance the permeability of cell membrane, improve metabolism, and achieve the functions of fitness and phlegm elimination. Therefore, there is a folk proverb in our country: washing feet in spring to strengthen yang, washing feet in summer to eliminate summer heat and dampness, washing feet in autumn to moisten the heart and raise children, and washing feet in winter to warm the abdomen.
106-year-old Fan from Taojiang County, Hunan Province is neither hunched nor deaf, and can walk on Erli Road with crutches. One of her living habits is to soak her feet with hot water before going to bed. Han Bailing, an expert in gynecology of traditional Chinese medicine in Chinese mainland, is 87 years old and still hale and hearty. He has developed the habit of soaking his feet with hot water before going to bed for more than 60 years, and he thinks he has benefited a lot. A diabetic named "Dan Xin" pointed out in the 27th issue of Guangming magazine that he heard that a person with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and hemiplegia mixed a spoonful of salt and a pot of hot water every night to iron his feet. After a few months, all the diseases disappeared, so his blood sugar level dropped. & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt& gt rub your feet.
Shi Jinmo, once known as one of the four famous doctors in Beijing, died at the age of 89. One of his health care essentials is to massage Yongquan point. According to legend, Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, suffered from foot pain, and acupuncture and drugs did not work. Su Dongpo recommends massaging the soles of the feet until they are hot, and then shaking your toes until you sweat. Ouyang Xiu obeyed the law and really recovered.
People who pay attention to health care further combine hot water to soak their feet and rub their feet, and the effect is more obvious. Ji Baixun, the former chairman and old educator of CPPCC in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, is still ruddy, energetic, quick-thinking and light-footed at the age of 96. He pays great attention to the protection of his legs and feet. He soaks his feet with hot water for 20 minutes every night and rubs them 100 times. When Tang Shizhai was 97 years old, there were many discussions about his health preservation methods in Jiangsu education circle. One of them is to rub your hands and feet 200 times before going to bed after soaking your feet in hot water. Wang Zanyuan said, "I have tuberculosis in my thirties and my body is particularly thin. I estimate that I will not live to 50 years old, and now I live to 76 years old and my body is normal. I seldom go to the hospital. This may have something to do with my long-term adherence to foot bath. At one stage, I only slept for about four hours every day, and I was very tired during the day. Instead of taking sleeping pills, I strengthened the number of massages after foot bath. I can sleep for six hours every night and I am full of energy during the day. I can write and learn Chinese painting, and learn to play erhu for two hours every day, which enriched my later life. 」
As the saying goes, "There is water in the bag in the morning, and there is water in the bag before going to bed. It is not surprising that you live a long and healthy life." The water in the bag means drinking water in the morning, and the water in the bag means washing feet before going to bed. Drinking water in the morning and washing feet before going to bed are all good health care methods.
After a night's sleep, the water in the body is reduced due to physiological discharge. Drinking water in the morning can not only replenish the water lost by body metabolism, but also wash and clean the empty stomach, which is beneficial to the physiological function of the stomach. Drinking water in the morning also plays an important role. Water is quickly absorbed into blood by intestinal mucosa, which can effectively increase blood solubility, dilute blood, reduce blood viscosity, promote blood circulation, and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases at the peak of heart disease, especially for middle-aged and elderly people. Drinking water in the morning can also relax the bowels, promote defecation and prevent constipation. When drinking water in the morning, it is better to drink cold boiled water. You can drink warm water when it is cold. When boiling water is dry the night before, be sure to cover it. Because boiled water is exposed to the air for too long, it will lose its activity, be easily contaminated by bacteria, lose its health care function and even cause human diseases.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human foot is the intersection of the three Yin San Yang meridians, and the kidney meridian of Shaoyin meridian runs along the sole of the foot, which is the foundation of human beings. With the growth and aging of the owner, people's feet are far away from the heart, with less blood supply and slow speed. In addition, the foot fat layer is thin, the heat preservation ability is poor, and the peripheral blood circulation of human body is poor. After the weather turns cold, the feet feel cold first. Cold soles not only affect the feet, but also reflexively lead to abnormal function of the upper respiratory tract, so that the human body's resistance is obviously reduced, and pathogenic bacteria will take advantage of the situation and make waves, which is easy to make people suffer from diseases such as colds and bronchitis. Soaking feet with hot water can not only dispel cold and prevent diseases, but also soak and rub feet, which is easy to get through Yongquan point in the center of feet, and the meridians on feet will be connected, which is of great benefit to promoting blood circulation and metabolism, accelerating blood circulation of lower limbs, eliminating heavy feeling of lower limbs and general fatigue caused by a day's work, promoting sleep and strengthening the body.
Drinking water in the morning and washing feet before going to bed is an effective and simple health care method. If middle-aged and elderly people can persevere, they will certainly benefit a lot.