What are the benefits of soaking feet in winter?
Soaking feet with hot water in winter can keep out the cold. This is because people's feet have reflex zones corresponding to various organs of the body. When soaking feet with warm water, these reflex zones are stimulated, thus promoting blood circulation, helping to regulate the endocrine system, enhancing the functions of various organs, and playing a role in keeping out cold and preventing diseases. At the same time, the stimulation of hot water will accelerate the microcirculation of the feet. If you soak your feet in water with Chinese herbal medicine, the pharmaceutical ingredients in the water will be quickly absorbed and directly enter the blood circulation, and the health care effect will be more obvious.
1. Promote blood circulation of soles. The soles of the feet are at the bottom of the body. In winter, circulation is not sufficient. Soaking feet is good for blood circulation, taking away the waste in the body and supplementing nutrition. Soaking feet can cure diseases through nerve reflex. If you want to adjust the materials for soaking your feet according to your illness, it is best to soak your feet for half an hour at a time.
2. Promote metabolism. Soaking feet can strengthen the circulation in the body and allow blood to be transported to both ends of the feet. This can reduce the incidence of high-risk diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and stroke. However, it should be noted that the temperature of water should be hot enough, but it will not burn. The temperature is about 45 degrees Celsius.
3. It can relieve headaches. Soak your feet with hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius for about 15 ~ 20 minutes, and your headache will be relieved. This is because the blood vessels in both feet dilate and blood flows from head to foot, which can relatively reduce brain congestion and finally relieve headache.
4. Treat some diseases. Sticking to soaking feet with hot water often can not only treat diseases such as spleen and stomach diseases, rheumatism and insomnia, but also treat serious diseases such as paraplegia, brain trauma, lumbar disc herniation, stroke, nephropathy and diabetes.
5. It can help reduce fever. For colds and fever, soaking feet in hot water is good for reducing fever.
When is the best time to soak your feet in winter
If you want to protect your kidneys, you'd better choose to soak your feet around 9 pm, and the effect is the best. Soaking feet at nine o'clock in the evening has the most protective effect on the kidneys, which helps to dilate blood vessels and promote blood circulation in the body. You will fall asleep every few minutes after soaking your feet, and the effect of tonifying the kidney is better.
The reason why this time period is chosen to tonify the kidney is because it is the time when the kidney meridian is weak in qi and blood. At this time, after soaking feet to increase body heat, blood vessels in the body will expand, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation, thus promoting blood circulation in the body. At the same time, the nerves that have been nervous for a day and the kidneys that have been tired for a day can be completely relaxed and fully adjusted at this time, and people will feel very comfortable.
In addition, soaking feet in the morning can refresh your mind. When sleeping at night, the body keeps the same posture for a long time, and the blood circulation is not smooth. Taking a bath in the morning can promote blood circulation and regulate autonomic nerve and endocrine system.
Health network reminds that it is not advisable to soak your feet when you are full and hungry. Being full, hungry or soaking your feet while eating 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. After eating, the blood in the human body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water at this time, the blood that should have flowed to the digestive tract will flow to the lower limbs instead. Over time, it will affect digestion and absorption, leading to malnutrition.
When soaking feet, the water temperature should not be too hot, about 40℃ is appropriate, and the soaking time should not be too long, only about half an hour. Because the metal is easy to cool, it is best to use a wooden basin for soaking feet, which can put some salvia miltiorrhiza and angelica which are beneficial to blood circulation; Or put some forsythia, honeysuckle, isatis root and chrysanthemum to reduce fire and clear heat.
Four methods of soaking feet are the most harmful.
Many people use Chinese medicine to soak their feet once or twice and find that the effect is not obvious, so they think that the effect of Chinese medicine to soak their feet is poor. This idea is wrong. As we all know, the course of Chinese medicine is long, so it takes some time for Chinese medicine to soak its feet to see obvious effects.
2. Chinese medicine repeatedly soaks feet.
Many people think that Chinese medicine is more expensive, and it is too wasteful to throw the trash can once or twice, so they will turn it over several times. Actually, it's just a waste of time. The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine is generally released after stewing twice. If it is the third stew, these Chinese medicines have almost no efficacy. Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath tablets belong to disposable products.
3, soaking feet for too long.
The idea that the longer you soak your feet, the better is also wrong. Generally, Chinese medicine can soak feet for 40 minutes, which can make the capillaries of feet absorb enough effective components of Chinese medicine, and it is easy to sweat if soaking feet for too long. Excessive sweating is harmful to the heart.
4. Foot bath water is too hot.
Many people choose hot water to soak their feet. They think that high temperature helps to promote the absorption of Chinese medicine components and blood circulation. In fact, this is not right, because about 40 degrees is a more suitable temperature for people. If the temperature is too high, it will burn the skin, and if the blood circulation is too fast at once, it will cause blood to rush up, but it will cause discomfort and even collapse.
So what aspects should you pay attention to when soaking your feet in winter?
1. Don't soak your feet when you are too full or hungry. Because soaking feet will affect the blood supply to the stomach, soaking feet will do more harm to the stomach at this time.
Don't go to bed immediately after soaking your feet. Rub the soles of your feet while your feet are hot, and then go to bed after the whole body heat is relieved.
3. Diabetic patients should pay special attention to the water temperature, because the peripheral nerves of such patients can't sense the external temperature normally, and they are easy to be burned, which will lead to very serious consequences.
4. Patients with beriberi 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. Soaking feet for too long will cause symptoms such as sweating and palpitation.