As the saying goes, "Old people should live a long life, and their heads are cold and their feet are hot." . First of all, we should pay attention to the time of soaking feet, not too long, at most half an hour. Otherwise, the local blood circulation in the foot is too fast for a long time, which will cause relative ischemia in other parts of the body, and the elderly may faint due to insufficient blood supply to the brain.

Patients with beriberi should pay attention to patients infected with beriberi. When the condition is serious enough to blister, it is not advisable to soak your feet with hot water because it is easy to cause wound infection. When your feet are inflamed, injured or burned, you should not soak your feet. As the saying goes, "Old people should live a long life, and their heads are cold and their feet are hot." . First of all, we should pay attention to the time of soaking feet, not too long, at most half an hour. Otherwise, the local blood circulation in the foot is too fast for a long time, which will cause relative ischemia in other parts of the body, and the elderly may faint due to insufficient blood supply to the brain.

Secondly, pay attention to soaking feet within half an hour after meals. Soaking feet will affect the blood supply to the stomach and make the elderly suffer from long-term malnutrition. In addition, you can't sleep immediately after soaking your feet. Rub the soles of your feet when your feet are hot, put on socks to keep warm in time, and it is best to go to bed after the body heat gradually decreases. Old people's feet had better use wooden barrels with deep bottom area, so that they can be comfortably laid flat, and the water should be soaked all the way to the calf. The temperature of water is about 40 degrees Celsius, so water should be heated at any time. Might as well add some Chinese medicine. While washing feet with hot water, if Chinese medicine can be added to hot water, it can also achieve twice the result with half the effort for some elderly patients with chronic diseases.

This paper recommends a simple foot bath prescription: the elderly with qi deficiency can choose drugs such as Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus and Atractylodes macrocephala. Patients with hypertension should choose chrysanthemum, medlar, mulberry branch, salvia miltiorrhiza and gentian to soak their feet. If you often hold your child with hot water, it will affect the neurovascular function of your child's foot and lead to the relaxation of your child's plantar ligament, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of your arch. This will lead to the danger of flat feet, so everyone must pay attention to children. Don't soak your feet often.