1, improve sleep quality
Boiling water with safflower and adding proper amount of vinegar can stimulate plantar acupuncture points, accelerate blood circulation, relieve fatigue, relax the body and effectively improve sleep quality.
2. Prevent numbness in hands and feet
Some people are prone to numbness in their hands and feet, or congestion in their lower limbs. This is because their blood supply is insufficient and they cannot reach the ends of their bodies. Carthamus tinctorius has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can promote blood circulation of the whole body and relieve numbness of hands and feet.
3. Promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation
Safflower is pungent and warm, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and dysmenorrhea. Women can often soak their feet with safflower during menstruation, which can promote blood circulation and treat dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, abdominal pain and postpartum lochia.
Step 4 prevent frostbite
Many people often have chapped hands and feet and broken skin in winter, which is caused by frostbite caused by blood vessel congestion after freezing. Safflower can accelerate blood circulation, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Soaking feet with safflower can effectively treat and prevent chilblain.
5, enhance physical fitness
There are many acupoints on the soles of human feet, which are closely related to all zang-fu organs and meridians in the whole body. Soaking feet with safflower hot water can stimulate acupoints on the soles of feet, speed up metabolism, adjust the function of viscera and enhance physical fitness.
Step 6 treat colds
Cold patients can soak their feet with safflower boiling water, which can accelerate blood circulation and have a certain therapeutic effect on colds. Soaking feet with safflower can also effectively prevent colds.
7, foot bath taboo to know
1, too full to soak your feet.
When soaking feet, don't be too full, too hungry or eat, because foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, which is prone to dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
2, patients with severe heart disease, hypotension beware of syncope.
It is okay for healthy people to soak their feet or soak in hot springs, but special people, such as people with heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, low blood pressure and frequent dizziness, should not soak their feet or soak in hot springs for a long time. Because soaking feet in hot water or soaking in hot springs will dilate blood vessels, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will inevitably lead to ischemia and hypoxia in important organs such as the heart and brain. For people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase the risk of illness.
3, diabetic patients must pay attention to the water temperature.
The peripheral nerves of diabetic patients can't sense the outside temperature normally, even if the water temperature is high, and they are easy to burn, which will lead to very serious consequences, so pay attention to the water temperature of soaking feet.
4, beriberi patients should be careful of infection.
People with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water when their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn are not easy to soak.
5. Old people should not soak their feet for too long.
Old people who soak their feet for too long will have symptoms such as sweating and palpitation. Therefore, it is better for the elderly to soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day.
6. There is no need for babies to soak their feet.
Because children are pure yang, they are prone to fever and fall in love with fire. If you soak your feet in hot water and sweat again, you will get hot. Just wash your feet with warm water every day. After washing, you can gently pinch your feet and relax your muscles.