Foot bath is theoretically good morning. Because you sleep in the same posture for a long time at night, your blood circulation is not smooth. Washing feet with hot water in the morning stimulates peripheral nerves, dilates blood vessels and increases blood flow, thus promoting systemic blood circulation, coordinating neuroendocrine and physiological functions of brain and heart, and making people refreshed and energetic. Moreover, when people just get up in the morning, they will inevitably feel sleepy. At this time, soaking feet can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, restore physical strength and refresh your mind. But in fact, very few people soak their feet in the morning. Everyone chooses to soak their feet before going to bed. In fact, this is also possible. Night is the time when kidney qi rises and falls. At this time, soaking feet can play a role in tonifying kidney and benefiting qi and relieving fatigue. Soaking feet before going to bed is more conducive to sleep.
A few simple recipes for soaking feet
While soaking feet in hot water, if Chinese medicine can be added to hot water, it can also play a multiplier role in strengthening the body and health care for some elderly patients with chronic diseases. Recommend several prescriptions for soaking feet with simple preparation methods: the elderly with qi deficiency can choose qi-invigorating drugs such as Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus and Atractylodes macrocephala. Patients with hypertension should soak their feet with chrysanthemum, medlar, mulberry branch, salvia miltiorrhiza and borneol. Some elderly people need to promote blood circulation and tonify the kidney. They can choose Angelica sinensis, Paeonia Rubra, Carthamus tinctorius and Dipsacus. Some elderly people have dry skin and are prone to chapping. You can choose cassia twig, honeysuckle and safflower. Take each 15-20g of the above traditional Chinese medicines, put them in a casserole and decoct them, then pour the decocted liquid into a bucket, add hot water and soak them for 30 minutes every day. Note that Chinese medicine must not use metal and plastic pots to soak feet, otherwise some effective components of the liquid medicine will be lost.
Foot soaking method
Some people are used to soaking their feet in red, thinking that the higher the water temperature, the better the effect. In fact, the foot bath water should not be too hot, about 40 will do. This is because the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels in both feet are easy to expand excessively, and the blood in the human body flows more to the lower limbs, which is easy to cause insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney, especially for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury; On the other hand, if the water temperature is too high, it is easy to destroy the sebum membrane on the skin surface of the foot, making the stratum corneum dry or even chapped. Time control, some people don't soak their feet, but take them out and rub them in the water for a while. They can only wash their feet at best. Too short a time will not have a health care effect. It usually takes about twenty or thirty minutes, and they will definitely feel warm all over. The best temperature is when there is Mao Mao sweat on my forehead. The forehead belongs to the stomach meridian, and the stomach meridian is the Yangming meridian, indicating that the hot air has warmed to the viscera and meridians. Some people are used to soaking in sweat, but it consumes their vitality and belongs to soaking. Especially in winter, if you always sweat so hard, people will be very weak in spring, so this heat is very important.
Can I soak my feet after hiking?
You can soak your feet after exercise. Soaking feet can promote blood circulation of feet, improve metabolism and relieve fatigue, but it should be noted that it is best to soak feet after 30 minutes of exercise, especially after running, because people's feet get hot during exercise and their pores become larger, and soaking feet immediately after exercise is easy to hurt the tibia. Human body temperature is closely related to blood circulation. When the body temperature is low, people's blood circulation is also low. On the contrary, when the body temperature is high, the blood circulation will become vigorous. Soaking feet with hot water after exercise can dilate blood vessels in feet, raise skin temperature and promote blood circulation in feet and whole body, thus improving heart function and reducing heart burden. Soaking feet after exercise promotes blood circulation of feet and whole body, and blood circulation increases. Regulating the secretion of various hormones by various endocrine glands in the body, such as thyroid hormone secreted by the thyroid gland and adrenal hormone secreted by the adrenal gland, can promote the metabolism of the body. After long-term exercise, people will feel tired, and poor blood circulation will first appear in the feet, leading to the deposition of end products, lactic acid microcrystals, calcium salts and other substances.
Who should not soak their feet?
If patients with varicose veins soak their feet with hot water, they usually can't change the speed of venous return, but can only strengthen local blood flow, which may increase the burden of venous return, lead to the expansion of varicose veins, make the lower limbs hyperemia and edema serious, and aggravate the condition.
When the skin is broken or cut, stop soaking the medicine (except in the case of broken skin and chapped skin). Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath can only play the role of adjuvant therapy, and elderly friends should never regard it as a method of treating diseases, so as not to delay the illness.
Generally speaking, the nerve endings of diabetic foot patients are insensitive to temperature. Ordinary people may feel normal when they feel the water is very hot. Therefore, patients with diabetic foot can easily burn their feet by soaking their feet. If not handled properly, they may develop blisters, which may lead to foot infections, ulcers and other problems.