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What are the benefits of soaking feet in hot water for a long time?
Human feet have reflex zones corresponding to internal organs and organs. Soaking feet can stimulate these reflex zones, dilate blood vessels, promote human blood circulation, regulate endocrine system, enhance the function of human organs and promote human health.

If you soak your feet for 15 minutes every day, it can play a role in health care. The foot is the most sweaty part of the human body, and the palm is in a sweaty, humid and sultry environment, which easily leads to mold infection and tinea pedis (commonly known as athlete's foot). If you can wash your feet with warm water every night, you can keep your toes clean and dry, prevent the growth of mold and prevent the occurrence of beriberi. Washing feet with hot water cannon can also reduce the accumulation of acid metabolites in foot tissue, which is beneficial to eliminate fatigue in a day. Prevent venous congestion of lower limbs and avoid pain and numbness caused by fatigue. The foot is far from the heart, so it has less blood supply than other parts of the body. Washing feet with hot water every night can dilate the blood vessels of the feet, accelerate the blood flow, increase the blood supply, make the blood vessels of the whole body unobstructed and increase the blood volume, thus reducing the cerebral blood flow, reducing people's excitement and promoting sleep.

It can also relieve headache, blood flows from head to toe, reduce brain congestion and relieve headache. For the headache caused by cold and fever, soaking feet with hot water can also help reduce the fever. When soaking feet, massage Yongquan and Taichong points on the back of the big toe by hand, which also helps to lower blood pressure. If you soak your feet in hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, your body will obviously relax after about 15 to 20 minutes.

Feet are the roots of people. There are as many as 75 foot reflex zones, which have important therapeutic value. Vinegar can penetrate the skin of the foot, enhance blood circulation, activate and enhance organ functions, remove human blood waste and pathological deposits, and treat various chronic diseases. Washing feet with hot water can reflexively cause capillary dilation of respiratory mucosa, accelerate blood circulation, and accelerate cilia swing on mucosal surface, thus enhancing the disease resistance of respiratory tract and contributing to the prevention and treatment of respiratory inflammation.