When soaking feet, the blood circulation in the body is accelerated, which can remove toxic and harmful substances in the body, improve the immunity of the body and reduce the probability of various diseases. When you soak your feet, you can also eat into the acupoints of your feet to keep healthy.
Soaking feet with hot water every day can eliminate foot odor. Insist on soaking feet every day, you can wash the sweat off your feet and eliminate foot odor. If appropriate ginger slices and salt are added to hot water, fungi can also be killed.
Hot water soaking feet can also dispel cold and dehumidify, and feet contain more than 60 acupoints. By stimulating the reflex zones of these acupoints, we can adjust the functions of zang-fu organs, enhance metabolism and improve physical fitness.
In addition, adding some Chinese medicines to hot water can also treat foot diseases, such as beriberi, beriberi and so on.
Soaking feet is a common way of keeping in good health. It can not only relieve our day's fatigue, but also have a good effect on sleep. Many people in life especially like soaking their feet. Let's give you a detailed introduction.
What are the benefits of soaking feet?
Relieve headache and promote blood circulation.
There are many terminal blood vessels in the foot. Soaking feet can dilate these blood vessels, let blood flow from the head to the soles of the feet, and relieve headaches by relieving brain congestion. In winter, microcirculation is very insufficient. Soaking feet helps blood circulation to take away waste and supplement nutrition.
bring down the blood pressure
The main purpose of soaking feet is to promote blood circulation throughout the body. For patients with hypertension, blood vessels will expand after soaking feet, and the mobility of blood in the body will be enhanced, which can reduce the occurrence of high-risk diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and stroke. At this time, the effect of lowering blood pressure will be more obvious if you continue to massage Yongquan and Taichong points.
Alleviate occupational diseases
Nowadays, people who work in many cities often suffer from weakness of spleen and stomach, insomnia and headache because of their fast pace of life and heavy work pressure, which easily affects their normal work. So it is a good choice to soak your feet in your spare time. Friends who don't have time can do pedicure, and friends who have enough time can soak their feet at home and put them in hot water for 20 minutes, feeling relaxed and quickly eliminating fatigue.
Treat sleep disorder
Many people often have insomnia, dreaminess or wake up early. Soaking feet with hot water before going to bed every night can reduce the excitement of sympathetic nerves, effectively relieve nervous nerves and regulate the whole body's qi and blood. Long sleep will make people feel better and better.
Be able to stay healthy.
There are many acupoints on the foot, so the therapeutic value of this part is very high. There are also many acupoints. Soaking feet with hot water can not only accelerate the blood circulation of our body, but also stimulate these acupoints, strengthen the functions of various organs, and achieve the effect of health care. Generally speaking, it is advisable to soak your feet at 9: 00 pm. At this time, soaking your feet is the best time to tonify the kidney.
Precautions for soaking feet
But it doesn't mean that foot bathing is suitable for everyone, such as friends with hypertension, cardiac insufficiency and diabetes. The foot soaking time should not be too long, 15 to 30 minutes is appropriate.
In the process of soaking feet, the heart rate is faster than usual because of the accelerated blood circulation. Too long, it is easy to increase the burden on the heart. People with weak constitution are prone to feel dizzy due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, and even faint in severe cases.
Among them, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should pay special attention. If you feel chest tightness and dizziness, you should temporarily stop soaking your feet and lie in bed immediately.
In addition, in order to avoid infection, patients with foot trauma are not recommended to soak their feet before the wound heals.