First of all, bathing for health.
1, wash 30 minutes before meals to enhance appetite.
People with poor appetite and loss of appetite can consciously take a bath 30 minutes before meals, stimulate the stomach with hot water, and then spray water around the chest with warm water after the body is warm, rest every 5 seconds 1 minute, and repeat 5 times; If you have a bathtub, you can soak it in hot water for a while, inhale through your nose to make your abdomen bulge, exhale through your mouth, and then rinse your abdomen with slightly warm water. This alternating stimulation can promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase appetite. For patients with hyperacidity and gastric ulcer, soak in hot water for 3-4 minutes to control gastric acid secretion.
2. Rinse key parts to relieve body pain.
For the pain caused by chronic muscle injury, local stiffness, cold and blood stasis, you can add more actions when taking a bath. When taking a bath, spray 40-degree hot water on the painful part for about 10 minute, especially on the head, shoulders, waist and other parts that are prone to pain. You can stretch while rushing, rotate back and forth, gradually get through the blood stasis and promote blood circulation. People who flash because of lifting heavy objects or being hit should not take a bath immediately after being injured, otherwise the pain will be aggravated. After the pain is relieved, soak in 40℃ hot water 10-20 minutes, which is helpful to diminish inflammation and relieve pain. Low back pain caused by other reasons due to deficiency of kidney qi can be relieved by bathing back and forth with hot water at the waist and doing appropriate waist flexion and extension exercises.
3. Take a deep breath while taking a bath to relieve constipation.
Many people are prone to symptoms of functional constipation when the seasons change and they are tired from work. In addition to daily life conditioning, you can massage your abdomen clockwise with your palm when taking a bath, and take a big breath from your abdomen, focusing on showering your abdomen, which can improve blood circulation, relieve constipation and prevent hemorrhoids. For patients with nervous constipation, 40-degree hot water can be used to rinse along the intestine for about 3 minutes, and then 25-degree warm water can be used to rinse 10 second, and repeated for about 5 times, which can strengthen the peristalsis of the large intestine.
4, hot water plus ginger to drive away the cold.
Many women and people with cold body often feel cold all over, and their hands and feet are easily cold and numb, even in summer. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, this is mostly because of qi deficiency and blood deficiency, which leads to poor blood operation and insufficient blood supply. This kind of people can take more bubble baths when they are free. Adding ginger to hot water can promote blood circulation and warm the body. When taking a bath, you can wash your shoulders and knees with 40-degree hot water, and do shoulder movements and foot movements while washing. After fully warming, you can use cold water 10 second. Repeatedly for 5 times, alternately showering with cold water and hot water, the blood vessels continuously expand and contract from cold to hot, so as to achieve the purpose of dredging blood. However, the elderly and children with weak constitution try to avoid alternating cold and heat.
5, wash your face to wash away fatigue.
Because there are many expression muscles and sensitive nerves on the face, once in a while, it will make people feel refreshed immediately. Rub your face in the bathtub after a hard day's work. Hot water can stimulate these nerves better. Under the dual effects of friction and water temperature, facial blood vessels expand and thicken, blood circulation is accelerated, facial muscles are stretched, which can promote metabolism and keep your face firm and rosy. Long-term persistence can prevent facial neuritis and vision loss.
When massaging, the palms rub up and down on the face until the face is hot. The intensity can be slightly heavier, once a second, 3-5 times, and each time is not less than 3 minutes. People with dry skin should not be overweight or too fast to avoid rubbing their skin. However, it should be noted that the water temperature of 40 degrees can best eliminate fatigue. If the water temperature is too high and consumes a lot of heat, it will not only not eliminate fatigue, but will feel uncomfortable; If the water temperature is too low, the blood vessels will contract, and it is not easy to eliminate fatigue.
6. Massage your feet to relieve fatigue and edema.
Chinese medicine believes that "all diseases begin with qi", and heavy footsteps and edema are mostly caused by poor qi in the human body, which leads to blocked blood circulation. On the other hand, the nerves on the feet are relatively dense, so it can promote the normal operation of metabolism by focusing on stimulating the reflex areas of various parts when taking a bath. You can take a bath from toes to instep with 40-degree hot water, then wash your ankles and soles for 3 minutes, and then wash the same place with low-temperature cold water for about 10 second. At the same time, you can move while washing and repeat it several times to stimulate acupuncture points and dredge qi and blood.
Second, the precautions for bathing
1, it is not advisable to take a bath after a full meal.
How wonderful it sounds to have a full meal, take a bath and surf the Internet comfortably. However, this has great health risks!
Because after a full meal, the stomach has to digest and absorb food. If you take a bath at this time, it will lead to the expansion of skin blood vessels, a large amount of blood will be concentrated on the body surface, and the blood supply to the abdominal cavity will be reduced accordingly, which will easily lead to indigestion, gastrointestinal dysfunction, chest tightness, dizziness, hypoglycemia, and even collapse and fainting. Therefore, it is more appropriate to take a bath after eating 1-2 hours.
Don't take a bath immediately after strenuous exercise or when you are hungry.
If you take a bath immediately after strenuous exercise, it is easy to cause insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain and even syncope. If you take a bath when you are hungry, your blood sugar will not be replenished in time, which will easily cause dizziness, general weakness, and even hypoglycemia coma in severe cases.
Don't go to bed immediately after taking a shower.
Although bathing can improve sleep, it is not advisable to sleep immediately after bathing. Because the body temperature will rise after bathing, it is not conducive to the secretion of the hormone "melatonin" that helps sleep. The best time to take a bath is 1-2 hours before going to bed. After taking a shower, you can make a hydrating mask or listen to light music, and then sleep peacefully after everything calms down.
At the same time, it should be noted that you must blow dry your hair before going to bed after taking a shower. If you sleep with wet hair on your pillow, it will not only seriously affect the quality of sleep, but also easily cause headaches.
4. Don't take a bath for a long time.
Some people like to take a bath and even listen to music in the bathtub. But taking a bath for too long is not good for your health. Because the bath time is too long, it is easy to make people tired, and it is easy to cause heart ischemia and hypoxia. In severe cases, it will cause coronary artery spasm and thrombosis, and even induce arrhythmia and sudden death. In addition, if the bath time is too long, the blood supply to the head will be reduced accordingly, which will easily lead to cerebral ischemia and accidents. So, if you take a shower, it will take 20 minutes.
Taking a hot bath after a day's fatigue can not only eliminate fatigue in time, but also make you refreshed. But the bath time should not be too long, and it is best to control it within 30 minutes.
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