First, the effect of ginger soaking feet
1, for treating colds
Boiling a thumb-sized piece of ginger in water or soaking it in hot water until the water temperature is appropriate can effectively prevent the symptoms from developing further and prevent colds. Even if people don't have a cold, soaking their feet with ginger can also play a role in driving away the cold, thus preventing colds.
Step 2 treat rheumatism
Ginger has its special effect of dispelling cold and expelling wind, and rheumatism patients can effectively relieve symptoms by soaking their feet for half an hour every night. Soaking your feet in a wooden bucket above your calves can better relieve symptoms such as rheumatoid arthritis.
3, reduce cold hands and feet
Ginger can drive away cold, and the cold hands and feet are mainly due to insufficient blood supply to the end of the body. Soaking feet with ginger can effectively improve blood circulation and relieve the symptoms of cold hands and feet.
Step 4 improve sleep
Adding proper amount of black vinegar to ginger when soaking feet can stimulate plantar acupoints and enhance the metabolism of various systems, thus relaxing the human body, relieving fatigue and improving sleep quality.
5. Maintain the kidneys
Ginger soaking feet to improve blood supply deficiency, combined with kidney-tonifying ingredients can play a very good role in warming and nourishing kidney.
6, delay aging
The kidneys are aging and people are getting old. Soaking feet with ginger can improve qi and blood, maintain kidneys, effectively delay aging and prolong life.
Second, the taboo of ginger soaking feet
1, the foot soaking time should not be too long, and it is appropriate to 15 to 30 minutes. In the process of soaking feet, due to the accelerated blood circulation, the heart rate is faster than usual. Too long, it is easy to increase the burden on the heart. In addition, because more blood will rush to the lower limbs, people with weak constitution are prone to dizziness due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, and even faint in severe cases. Among them, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should pay special attention. If you feel chest tightness and dizziness, you should temporarily stop soaking your feet and lie in bed immediately.
It is not advisable to soak your feet for half an hour after a meal. After a meal, most of the blood in the human body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water immediately after a meal, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead, which will affect digestion and absorption for a long time and lead to nutritional deficiency. Therefore, it is best to wash feet after eating 1 hour.
3. Foot bath temperature varies from person to person. The normal body temperature is 36℃~37℃, and the temperature of foot bath water is 2℃~3℃ higher than the normal body temperature, which is about 40℃. People with more cocoons on their feet can have higher water temperature; Children's skin is tender and the water temperature is lower. Diabetic patients, because the foot skin is not sensitive, so the water temperature should be lower, too high is easy to cause skin burns.
Third, who shouldn't soak their feet?
1, a developing child.
Developing children should not soak their feet at too high a temperature. Often soaking feet with overheated water will make plantar ligaments deform and relax due to heating, which is not conducive to the development of arch, and it is easy to induce flat feet after a long time.
2. Those who are on an empty stomach or full stomach.
People who are on an empty stomach or full stomach should not soak their feet, because the blood vessels in the feet dilate and the blood volume increases when soaking feet, which leads to the decrease of gastrointestinal and visceral blood and affects gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not conducive to digestion; Foot bath immediately after meals will reduce the blood volume of gastrointestinal tract and affect digestion.
3. People who are in great anger, great sorrow, great joy, mental stress and physical fatigue.
It is good to soak your feet, but before soaking your feet, you should find out who can't soak your feet, and do the precautions correctly, so as to keep healthy.
4, renal failure, heart failure and other critical patients.
Who can't soak their feet? Various critically ill patients such as renal failure and heart failure may have a strong reaction to the stimulation of the foot reflex area because of their unstable condition, which complicates the condition, so such people should not soak their feet.
5. Pregnant and menstruating women.
Who can't soak their feet? Women during pregnancy and menstrual period should not soak their feet, because Chinese medicine foot bath may stimulate women's gonad reflex area, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.