The foot is also called the second heart of the human body, because scientific research has proved that there are reflex zones and meridian distribution corresponding to various zang-fu organs on the foot. For example, if we soak our feet with hot water, we will find that it can promote blood circulation and achieve the effect of health care. Benefits:
Promote blood circulation, especially for people who often feel cold hands and feet. Soaking your feet with warm water is a good and effective way to solve your cold. Once, I was also a person with cold hands and feet after winter. Later, I soak my feet in hot water every night before going to bed 10~20 minutes, then dry the water on my feet with a dry towel before going to bed. I didn't feel cold all night and fell asleep easily. I woke up refreshed the next day.
Stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot. Our feet have acupoints, reflex zones and meridians. For example, when doing massage, we will feel pain and soreness. This situation can explain that acupoints and meridians have been massaged. Therefore, hot water will stimulate these acupoints and meridians when soaking feet, thus achieving the purpose of health care.
Eliminating foot soaking has a good auxiliary effect on many diseases. Soaking feet can help remove the cold and moisture in the body and help to achieve the purpose of treating diseases.
Although soaking feet has the effect of health care and disease removal, not everyone is adapted to soaking feet. So who can't soak their feet?
Diabetic patients can't feel the outside temperature normally because of possible peripheral neuropathy. If the water temperature is too high, it is easy to burn, which will lead to serious consequences. Therefore, it is not recommended for diabetics to soak their feet. If you want to soak your feet, you must pay attention to the water temperature.
People with heart disease and unstable blood pressure soak their feet with hot water. Soaking feet with hot water will dilate blood vessels in the body, and a large amount of blood in the body will flow to the lower limbs. For those with coronary artery stenosis and blockage, it may lead to ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as heart and brain, thus endangering life. Moreover, when soaking feet, the blood circulation is accelerated and the heart rate is accelerated, which will also affect blood pressure, so it is not recommended for hypertensive patients to soak their feet.
People with vein occlusion of lower limbs soak their feet with hot water, which will dilate the arterial blood vessels of the feet and promote blood circulation. However, hot water can not dilate the blocked blood vessels, but will aggravate the ischemia of the blood vessels in the occluded area and make the condition worse.
If patients with varicose veins of lower limbs soak their feet with hot water, they will further expand varicose veins, thus aggravating congestion of lower limbs, aggravating the condition and causing redness and swelling.
Patients with dermatoses such as beriberi usually soak their feet at a water temperature that is very suitable for fungal growth, so people with beriberi and dermatoses not only have no effect, but also aggravate itching symptoms. If the skin is damaged, it is easy to cause secondary bacterial infection.
Heel chapped: The skin of heel and sole is easy to become rough, and some people will have chapped pain, so soaking feet with vinegar and hot water at this time has a good health care effect.
Dark circles: when you see this word, some people may doubt that soaking your feet can also eliminate dark circles? Because of dark circles, people who stay up late will have this phenomenon. Or symptoms caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney. At this time, you can use the method of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney and clearing the deficiency fire to get rid of dark circles. For example, mugwort leaves soak feet.
Pharyngitis: pharyngitis, some people use foot bath to help eliminate symptoms. For example, soaking feet with Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Cortex Phellodendri, Fructus Amomi and Herba Menthae after boiling water can help eliminate inflammation of local tissues.
Stomach pain: Patients with dull and persistent stomach pain can relieve stomach discomfort by soaking their feet, such as boiling water with dried ginger, cinnamon, Cyperus rotundus, Alpinia officinarum and Evodia rutaecarpa to relieve symptoms.
Constipation: You can also relieve it by soaking your feet, but only by distinguishing the symptoms can you choose the right prescription for soaking your feet. Such as dry stool and halitosis, feet can be soaked with boat-fruited Sterculia, rhubarb, senna leaf and boiled water.
If you have loose stool, but you can't pull it out, accompanied by fatigue, mental fatigue, limb fatigue and other symptoms, you can soak your feet with boiling water of Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali and Semen Platycladi twice a day.
If constipation is hard or dry, and your face is dull and your lips are pale, you can soak your feet with boiling water from Angelica, Astragalus, Cannabis, Cannabis and Platycladus orientalis twice a day.
Chronic cough is not cured: Chronic cough is a common symptom and can be relieved by foot bath. Take mugwort leaves, perilla leaves and ginger, and soak your feet with boiling water for those with chronic cough due to wind-cold.
Reference: Gao Jiming Healthy China.
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