1, foot bath with vinegar for health care
Soaking feet is a very big knowledge. Many of us like to soak our feet with vinegar in our life, but many of us don't know the therapeutic effect of soaking our feet with vinegar. Therefore, Bian Xiao introduced today why so many people like to soak their feet with vinegar and what benefits it has.
2. The benefits of soaking feet with vinegar frequently.
(1) Promote blood circulation
Cold hands and feet in winter are mostly caused by blocked blood gas circulation in the body. Soaking feet with vinegar can accelerate human blood circulation, improve hypoxia caused by long-term immobility or fatigue of various parts of the body, enhance metabolism and improve cold hands and feet.
(2) Improve beriberi
Many people have athlete's foot, that is, friends with "Hong Kong foot" will be very upset, and their feet will not only itch, peel off, but also stink, which are the consequences of fungal infection. Therefore, soaking feet with vinegar can sterilize and clean feet, but soaking feet with vinegar can improve beriberi as much as possible without damage.
(3) Moisturize the skin
Because of the dry weather in winter, many people have dry and cracked skin on their feet in winter. At this time, you might as well try soaking your feet in vinegar for a week. You will find that the skin on your feet has become smooth, and the skin on your body and face has also become better.
(4) decompression
Soaking feet with vinegar can coordinate the excitement of sympathetic nerve and parasympathetic nerve, and play a role in regulating and relaxing the nervous nerves. Especially for white-collar workers who are nervous at work during the day, they often soak their feet with vinegar, which can not only relieve the muscles of the feet wearing high heels, but also relieve the pressure on the body.
(5) Treating sleep disorders
Soaking feet with vinegar for half an hour every day can coordinate the excitement of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, adjust, straighten and relax nerves, coordinate meridians and qi and blood, and balance yin and yang. If you persist for a long time, you can greatly change the quality of sleep and cure sleep disorders such as insomnia, dreaminess and early awakening.
In addition, foot bath is not excused from everyone, and it is not suitable for some special people and some special situations:
Don't soak your feet when you are too full and hungry.
If you soak your feet when you are full, hungry or eating, it will speed up the blood circulation in the city and lead to dizziness and discomfort. Therefore, it is best not to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
Beware of syncope in patients with hypotension
Soaking feet or hot springs with hot water will dilate blood vessels, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, leading to ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as the heart and brain. For people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase the risk of illness.
Diabetic patients must pay attention to the water temperature.
Diabetic patients should pay special attention to the level of water temperature, because the peripheral nerves of such patients can't sense the external temperature normally, even if the water temperature is very high, and they are easy to be scalded, which will lead to serious consequences.
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. People with inflammation, trauma or skin burns on their feet should not soak their feet.
Old people should not soak their feet for too long.
Old people can soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day. If the soaking time is too long, it is easy to cause symptoms such as sweating and palpitation.
What are the benefits of soaking feet with salt water in winter?
Keeping in good health in winter is a topic that everyone cares about. Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to daily health care, and there are many health care methods, such as soaking feet is a good health care method. Pedicure health care centers can often be seen in streets and alleys. If we don't have time to go to the pedicure health care center, we can also soak our feet at home for health. Let's talk about the benefits of soaking feet in salt water.
4. the benefits of soaking feet with salt water
First, soaking feet in salt water can cure beriberi.
Treating athlete's foot with salt water is because salt has good antiviral and antibacterial effects. When salt is put into hot water, the skin can better absorb the antiviral and antibacterial components of salt water by using the heat in the water, so as to realize the effect of treating beriberi by soaking feet with salt water.
Second, you can wash your feet by soaking your feet in salt water.
Because of the disinfection and sterilization of salt, the cleaning ability of salt water is very strong, and feet can be washed by soaking in salt water.
Third, soaking feet in salt water can exfoliate.
Because salt has the function of exfoliation, you can use the heat in hot water to enhance the exfoliation effect by soaking your feet in hot water with salt.
Fourth, soaking feet in salt water can tonify kidney and resist aging.
Because our feet are farthest from the heart, there is little blood supply. Soaking feet with style salt water can make the effective components of salt water enter the kidney and heart, promote blood circulation, and achieve the effect of tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
Five, salt water soaking feet can cure colds.
Soaking feet with salt water can promote blood circulation and get rid of cold feet, thus treating colds.
6. Soaking your feet with salt water helps you sleep and resist aging.
Often washing feet with salt water, combined with massaging Yongquan and other acupoints, can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and anti-aging, treat colds, and even enhance memory and make the mind feel relaxed.
In addition, the following four types of people should be extra cautious when soaking their feet.
1, diabetic foot patients
The skin of diabetic foot patients is fragile, and the peripheral nerves of the foot are not sensitive to temperature. Normal people feel that the water is very hot, but they can't feel it, so they are easily scalded. Once scalded, even a small blister, if not treated in time, may lead to foot infection, ulceration, and even severe amputation.
2. Patients with varicose veins
The main cause of varicose veins is venous valve insufficiency. The increase of foot temperature will only increase local blood flow, but will not change the speed of venous reflux. On the contrary, it may increase the burden of venous reflux, lead to further expansion of varicose veins, aggravate congestion of lower limbs and aggravate the condition. It is very likely that your feet will become more and more swollen, so don't soak your feet or legs with hot water, and don't warm your feet with hot water bottles or take a sauna.
3. Patients with dermatoses such as tinea pedis
Many people mistakenly believe that soaking feet can relieve the symptoms of tinea pedis. In fact, soaking feet with hot water may lead to secondary bacterial infection. For broken skin wounds, soaking feet with hot water is even worse. Be sure to open the wound, dry and ventilated. Patients with diseases such as herpes and eczema on their feet should not soak their feet with hot water. Once the skin is broken, it is easy to cause infection.
4. Children
If the child's feet are not very cold, there is no need to soak them. The arch of human foot is gradually formed in childhood. At this time, if you often soak your feet with hot water, the ligaments on the soles of your feet may become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch. In the long run, it will increase the risk of forming flat feet.
Conclusion: It turns out that soaking feet has so many benefits, which can not only treat some diseases, but also have magical effects on health. You might as well try it, especially simple and convenient vinegar or salt water to soak your feet. But everyone should pay attention to the precautions for soaking feet.
5. What should I do after soaking my feet?
Soaking feet is a simple and practical fitness method. Now is the era of "every minute counts", you can get the greatest health care in the least time, and soaking your feet is your duty. But do you know that a cup of warm water after soaking your feet is the best way to recover?
First of all, when we soak our feet with hot water, we will find that the blood vessels on our feet will expand and the epidermis of our feet will turn red. This is because when we soak our feet with hot water, it will accelerate the blood circulation of the feet, make more blood flow to the peripheral blood vessels of the lower limbs, and make the blood flow of the brain relatively decrease, thus making people feel sleepy.
Secondly, soaking feet can stimulate acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the feet. According to medical theory, the foot has reflex zones and acupoints of various organs of the human body, as well as meridians. Many people have done pedicure, and when our feet are pressed, they will feel pain and soreness. This situation basically shows that there is something wrong with our corresponding viscera.
Therefore, when we finish the foot massage, we will feel relaxed all over. At the same time, there are six main meridians on people's feet, including the end points of three yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian and gallbladder meridian) and the beginning points of three yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian and kidney meridian), all of which are on the feet. So soaking feet with hot water is equivalent to stimulating these six meridians.
At the same time, because countless nerve endings on the soles of the feet are closely connected with the brain, the warm stimulation of hot water on the nerve endings on the feet can inhibit the cerebral cortex and make people feel comfortable and relaxed in the brain, thus speeding up sleep and deepening sleep.