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Often soak your feet, what good is it for your health?
First, dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and warming up

When the temperature drops, soaking feet properly for a period of time before going to bed every night can eliminate some damp and cold gas in the body, and achieve the effect of expelling cold and dampness and warming the body.

Moreover, when soaking feet, the skin temperature of feet and calves can rise rapidly, blood vessels will expand and blood flow speed will increase rapidly. And when soaking feet with hot water, the pores on the body will open due to thermal stimulation, so that the moisture and cold entering the body can be quickly discharged from the body, which has a very strong warm-keeping effect.

If your body is cold when the temperature drops, or you are attacked by moisture and catch a cold, you should soak your feet with hot water of about 50 degrees 15 minutes, and then drink a cup of warm water, so that the cold entering your body can be quickly discharged from your body, which has the effect of preventing and assisting in the treatment of colds. It also has a good improvement effect on stomach pain and dysmenorrhea caused by cold.

Second, promote sleep.

After entering the winter, because the temperature drops rapidly and the overall blood flow rate is slow, it will affect the blood supply of various organs, leading to poor blood circulation, thus affecting sleep, and it is easy to lose sleep or dream more.

Then enter the winter, and you can soak your feet properly every night. Soaking feet with hot water can relieve some physical fatigue and drive away some bad emotions. When the body and mind are in a relaxed state, it can promote sleep.

Moreover, when soaking feet, it can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, which has a very good improvement effect on insomnia caused by blood stasis.

Moreover, there are many acupoints on the soles of feet, which can be stimulated by soaking feet and reflected to the cerebral cortex. Through warm stimulation, the excitability of sympathetic nerve in cerebral cortex can be inhibited, thus improving sleep and improving sleep quality.

Third, accelerate metabolism.

After many women enter the winter, in addition to the phenomenon of cold hands and feet, they will be obese or even puffy. The reason for this situation is related to the decline of metabolic rate.

Then you can soak your feet with hot water every night in winter. Soaking feet with hot water can accelerate blood circulation, and some metabolites in the body can be quickly discharged through blood circulation, which is helpful to improve the metabolic rate of the body.