1, relieve physical and mental fatigue
Nowadays, the pace of life is fast and the pressure of life is relatively high, especially for entrepreneurs who have just graduated from college. They are exhausted when they come home from work every day. In fact, preparing a pot of hot water for yourself after work every day and lying in an armchair with your eyes closed is a good way to relax yourself. After ten minutes, all the fatigue disappeared, which is also a maintenance measure for their eyes.
2, promote blood circulation
It is cold in winter, and the peripheral limbs are far away from the heart. In the process of blood circulation, heat is continuously lost, and there is almost no heat when it flows through hands and feet. So hands and feet are the easiest to freeze in winter. Soaking feet with hot water after work or after school can increase the temperature of feet, appropriately dilate capillaries, promote blood circulation and prevent frostbite.
Step 3 strengthen resistance
Many health experts know that soaking feet is a good way to enhance their resistance. Soaking your feet in the morning can soothe your nerves and make you refreshed all day. Soaking feet at noon can eliminate the fatigue caused by work in the morning, soaking feet at 9: 00 in the evening can tonify the kidney, and soaking feet half an hour before going to bed can improve sleep. Only in this way can we adjust our physical condition to the best state and improve our resistance.
4. Stimulate acupoints and activate tendons and veins.
According to the cognition of traditional Chinese medicine, there are dozens of acupoints on people's feet, each corresponding to a different body organ. As long as we insist on soaking our feet with hot water every day and doing corresponding massage when soaking our feet, then we can keep all the organs healthy. When we finish the foot massage, we will feel relaxed all over.
5, recuperate the disease
Soaking feet with simple hot water every day can enhance people's resistance and play a certain role in treating diseases. Then, if appropriate Chinese medicine is added to hot water, is it better to treat many diseases?
Ginger soaking feet
Ingredients: a slice of ginger, safflower 1g, salt.
Process: pat the ginger flat with a knife, wrap the safflower in gauze and boil it in water, then add a spoonful of salt to soak your feet.
Efficacy: cold feet are afraid of cold.
Honghua paojiao
Material: safflower 1g, a little salt.
Technology: Boil safflower in water, add a spoonful of salt, smoke the feet first and then soak them.
Efficacy: promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and treating low back pain.
Ai ye pao jiao
Material: dried mugwort 50- 100g.
Process: Boil in water first, then add cold water or soak your feet after the temperature drops. Soak Folium Artemisiae Argyi in some hot water for 20 minutes, then add water to soak your feet.
Efficacy:
Wormwood and ginger can treat colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid diseases, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
Wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.
20 capsules of Artemisia argyi pepper are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
6. Who shouldn't soak their feet often?
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.
6. Diabetic patients.
Who can't soak their feet? Diabetic patients should also pay special attention to the level of water temperature, because such patients are prone to peripheral neuropathy, so that peripheral nerves can not normally perceive the external temperature. Even if the water temperature is high, they can't feel it, and they are easily burned.
7, the elderly should be careful to soak their feet.
Who can't soak their feet? Old people need to be extra careful when soaking their feet. 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.
Tips: The elderly, especially patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, should pay special attention. If you feel chest tightness and dizziness, you should temporarily stop soaking your feet and lie in bed immediately.
8. Patients with various severe hemorrhagic diseases.
Who can't soak their feet? People suffering from various serious hemorrhagic diseases should not soak their feet, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematochezia, cerebral hemorrhage, gastric bleeding, uterine bleeding and other visceral bleeding. And this kind of people may cause local tissue bleeding when doing foot massage.
9, frozen feet can not be hot.
The feet are frozen, indicating that they have been attacked by extremely cold and strong winds, the temperature is lower than the normal bearing capacity of the body, and the skin and muscles are in a stiff state. At this time, if your feet are suddenly scalded by hot water, the temperature will change from cold to sudden heat, and the skin and muscles will not be able to stand the huge temperature difference of tens of degrees Celsius, thus aggravating the condition of frozen feet and even making the muscles and bones peel off seriously.
Therefore, when freezing your feet, you should rub them with your hands moderately to make your feet hot, instead of soaking your feet in hot water.
10, some patients with acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning and surgical emergencies.
Patients with acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning and surgical emergencies, such as trauma, fracture, burn, perforation and massive bleeding, may delay the best time for treatment.