1. What is good for you to soak your feet?
1, hot water foot bath
Whether at home or on a business trip, soaking feet in hot water is the most convenient way. Soaking hot water directly can accelerate blood circulation, promote qi and blood circulation, achieve the effect of detoxification when soaking slightly sweating, and accelerate the metabolism of the body.
Step 2 soak your feet in vinegar
Pour rice vinegar or aged vinegar (50- 100g) directly into the foot washing water with appropriate temperature, and the specific dosage should be adjusted according to the amount of water and the size of the basin. Soaking feet with vinegar can sterilize and treat beriberi to some extent; Can relieve fatigue; Moisturize skin, soften cutin, remove dead skin and enhance skin elasticity.
3. mugwort leaves soak feet
The price of Folium Artemisiae Argyi is relatively low, but it is a very practical Chinese medicine. The dosage is 50 to100g. Artemisia argyi and ginger can cure cold and cold; Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Flos Carthami can improve female dysmenorrhea, rheumatoid arthritis and wind-cold lumbago and leg pain. If Spatholobus suberectus is added blindly, it will have a good effect on people with varicose veins, especially hairdressers and teachers who stand for a long time, and can relieve numbness and congestion of hands and feet.
4, ginger soaking feet
One way is to cut a few pieces of ginger and put it in a basin, then pour warm water; Another method is to boil ginger in a pot, then cool it to below 50 degrees Celsius, and then soak your feet. Soaking feet with ginger can promote peripheral nerve and vascular circulation, dispel cold and relieve pain, especially for dysmenorrhea and joint pain, and can also improve rheumatic joint pain. In the early stage of cold and cold, you can also soak your feet and sweat to detoxify. But it's not appropriate to be spicy and cute.
5, Schisandra soak feet
People with poor sleep can choose Schisandra chinensis, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Radix Curcumae and Rhizoma Acori Graminei to soak their feet. It can nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, soothe the liver and relieve depression, and improve sleep.
6, Shenqi soaking feet
People with weak constitution, easy fatigue and cold limbs can choose Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Poria and Radix Angelicae Sinensis to soak their feet to achieve the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood and improving fatigue.
2, soaking feet is not suitable for everyone.
People often say: "Wash your feet in spring, and the sun rises and takes off;" Washing feet in summer can dispel summer heat and dampness; Wash feet in autumn, moisten lungs and intestines; Washing feet in winter makes dantian warm. "It can be seen that soaking feet in winter makes people soak away the cold outdoors and the fatigue of the day.
However, although soaking feet is good, it is not suitable for everyone and needs the right medicine. Generally speaking, the elderly, patients with hypertension and the infirm should not soak their feet for too long at high water temperature. Because soaking feet for too long will cause symptoms such as sweating and palpitation.
In addition, children should not soak their feet with hot water. Because the arch of the foot began to form in childhood, we should pay attention to protection from an early age. If you often wash your feet with hot water, the ligaments on the soles of your feet will become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch, and it is easy to form flat feet. Don't often wash your children's feet with hot water, not to mention washing your feet with hot water for a long time.
Generally speaking, adults can rest by soaking their feet to achieve the purpose of health preservation.
3, the taboo of soaking feet in winter
1, the foot soaking time should not be too long and the water temperature should not be too high.
It is best not to soak your feet for more than 20 minutes at a time, because soaking your feet will speed up your blood circulation and heart rate, and too long will increase the burden on your heart. In addition, some people will feel dizzy because of insufficient blood supply to the brain, especially patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly.
Foot bath water should not be too hot, about 40℃ is appropriate. If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels in both feet are prone to over-expansion, and more blood in the human body flows to the lower limbs, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury to patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. At the same time, if the water temperature is too high, it is easy to destroy the sebum membrane on the skin surface of the foot, making the stratum corneum dry or even chapped.
2. It is not advisable to soak your feet when you are full or hungry.
When soaking feet, don't be too full, too hungry or eat, because foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, which is prone to dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
3. Prevention of foot-borne diseases
Infectious diseases of foot generally include corns, gray toenails and periostitis. If you want to prevent such diseases, you'd better not wear slippers first, then try to use disposable or sterilized tools when pedicure, and finally put vinegar and ginger in the footbath to soak your feet, which can effectively prevent such diseases.
4, beriberi patients should be careful of infection.
People with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water when their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection. People with inflammation, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn on their feet should not soak their feet. In addition, for patients with varicose veins or thrombosis, soaking feet also has health risks.
Soaking feet in winter has many benefits. In the process of soaking feet, we must pay attention to some taboos mentioned above to avoid adverse effects on health. Soak your feet moderately. Although there are many benefits of soaking feet, people who are not suitable for soaking feet should not be forced to soak their feet. Reasonable health care is the best for health. Moderate foot soaking in winter!