Soaking feet in winter can not only transfer heat to the whole body, promote blood circulation, achieve the effect of dispelling cold and keeping warm, but also relieve fatigue and play a role in health care. In addition, foot bath combined with massage can also help stimulate acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot. If you add some Chinese medicine and other materials to the foot bath water, it will also have an auxiliary treatment effect on some diseases.

Several kinds of people are not suitable for soaking feet.

However, the old Chinese doctor suggested that soaking feet in winter has many benefits, but it is not suitable for everyone. The following people should pay special attention to:

1, patients with arteritis, phlebitis and arteriovenous thrombosis should not soak their feet, because soaking their feet will cause local vasodilation and easily lead to danger.

2. Patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy should also pay special attention to soaking their feet. The peripheral nerves of these patients can't sense the external temperature normally, and their skin is easily burned. Once the water temperature is too high, it is easy to cause foot infection and accelerate the deterioration of the disease.

3, foot ulcers, inflammation, skin diseases, etc. Are not suitable for soaking feet, easy to cause wound infection.