In winter, many people will feel cold hands and feet, in fact, the blood circulation is not smooth. Soaking feet with hot water can promote blood circulation, relieve fatigue and improve sleep. No wonder soaking feet with hot water has become a folk family health care method that continues to this day.
In addition, in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, soaking feet is also good for other systemic diseases, such as rheumatism, arthritis, colds and other common diseases. As long as you insist on soaking your feet every day, you can play a health care role in slowing down symptoms.
As the saying goes: "To raise trees, we should protect our roots, while to raise people, we should protect our feet." The foot is the "second heart" of the human body, so it is necessary to pay attention to science to protect the foot. Soaking feet with hot water can not only promote blood circulation of feet, reduce local muscle tension, but also help to eliminate fatigue and improve sleep. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that foot is the starting and ending point of foot three yin meridians and foot three yang meridians, which is closely related to all zang-fu organs and meridians in the whole body.
Soaking feet with hot water can regulate the function of viscera and enhance physical fitness. For healthy people, it is generally enough to soak their feet with clear water, salt water or vinegar water, which is not only simple and convenient, but more importantly, it doesn't cost money.
There is an old saying in China: "Chinese medicine is not as good as tonic." If you soak your feet for 15 minutes every day, it can play a health care role. If you soak your feet in hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, your headache will be obviously relieved after about 15 ~ 20 minutes. This is because the blood vessels in both feet dilate and blood flows from head to foot, which can relatively reduce brain congestion and thus relieve headaches.
For the headache caused by cold and fever, soaking feet with hot water can also help reduce the fever. If you can massage Yongquan point while soaking your feet and press Taichong point on the back of your big toe, it will also help lower your blood pressure. In addition, we often insist that foot bath with traditional Chinese medicine has a wide range of applications, such as rheumatism, spleen and stomach diseases, insomnia, headache, colds and other systemic diseases.
Paraplegia, brain trauma, stroke, lumbar disc herniation, kidney disease, diabetes and other serious diseases, rehabilitation after serious illness and so on are all included. Therefore, insisting on scientific pedicure, especially for alleviating all kinds of occupational diseases that modern urbanites are prone to, can often get twice the result with half the effort.
The above content source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Foot Bath