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Is it better to soak your feet or steam them?
Each has its own advantages, please grasp it yourself. Soaking feet can raise body temperature, promote the blood flow of peripheral blood vessels to be smoother, and reduce the burden on the heart. In fact, the benefits of soaking feet don't stop there. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are reflex zones and countless acupoints on the feet. When people soak their feet with hot water, it will stimulate acupuncture points and reflex zones, promote blood circulation of the feet and even the whole body, thus accelerating the metabolism of the body and playing a role in mediating the whole body. For example, Yongquan and Taichong points, which we are familiar with, can tonify the kidney and protect the liver after being stimulated by warmth. If you stimulate the large intestine reflex area of the sole of the foot, it can also play a laxative role. In addition, soaking feet can speed up blood circulation and make people sweat, which can not only relieve fatigue, but also make some toxins excreted with sweat. The advantage of foot steaming therapy is 1. Benefits of foot steaming therapy for neurasthenia and insomnia: Chinese medicine can make the nervous system get compulsory exercise. Adjust autonomic nerve function, improve and improve sleep effect, and return to normal after long-term persistence. 2. Foot bath therapy can prevent and treat hypertension: Chinese medicine foot bath can effectively promote blood circulation, regulate endocrine system, remove blood lipids on blood vessel walls, eliminate blood vessel waste, enhance blood vessel elasticity, promote blood flow, and thus stabilize blood pressure. 3. Foot bath therapy can prevent and treat rheumatoid arthritis: Chinese foot bath can promote blood circulation, dredge collaterals, dispel cold and diminish inflammation. Eliminating joint rheumatism and long-term fumigation have a good physical therapy effect on rheumatoid arthritis. 4. Foot bath therapy can prevent numbness in legs and feet: Chinese foot bath can activate nerve endings in legs, dredge meridians in legs and eliminate numbness in legs and feet. 5. Foot bath therapy can prevent and treat diabetes: Insisting on foot bath in traditional Chinese medicine can regulate endocrine, restore islet cells and promote insulin secretion. Achieve the purpose of controlling blood sugar. 6. Weight loss effect of foot steaming therapy: Chinese medicine foot steaming can lose weight, fumigate the human body in all directions, expand the pores of the whole body and eliminate excess fat under the skin, thus achieving the purpose of weight loss. 7. Foot steaming therapy plays a cosmetic role: Chinese medicine can expel toxins from various organs in the body, remove subcutaneous melanin, improve skin pigmentation, and whiten and lighten spots. 8. Fumigating and washing parts with traditional Chinese medicine can treat gynecological diseases, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on prostate and hemorrhoids. 9. Pedicure has a good recovery effect on swelling, soreness and weakness of legs and feet. 10. Regular fumigation with traditional Chinese medicine can keep the meridians unobstructed, eliminate fatigue, prevent colds, keep fit and prolong life.