1, health care effect of foot bath in winter
The weather is dry and cold in autumn and winter, so female friends should soak their feet with hot water every night before going to bed to warm their bodies and dispel dampness and cold. Female friends actually have a very good way to keep fit, that is, soak their feet with hot water.
The soles of people's feet correspond to various organs and tissues of the body, and hot water soaking feet will directly reach various organs and tissues of the body through the soles of feet, thus achieving the effect of health care. Moreover, soaking feet with hot water can also help soften the cutin of feet, help promote blood circulation, help the body eliminate edema and so on. So, how to soak your feet to get the best health care effect? Next, let's take a look with Bian Xiao of 56 Health Network!
1. Soaking feet with ginger slices in hot water can prevent colds.
Autumn and winter are the seasons with frequent colds. Generally speaking, a cold is caused by the forced entry of external cold into the body, which leads to some virus infection in the body, causing symptoms such as cold, fever and cough. Female friends can add ginger slices to hot water when soaking their feet, which can help the body dispel the cold, promote blood circulation, enhance the body's immunity, and help the body to diminish inflammation and sterilize. Therefore, female friends who prevent colds or colds can take care of their bodies in this way!
2. Soaking feet with hot water and salt can relieve constipation.
Female friends rarely know that hot water soaking feet can actually relieve constipation, but it is not a simple hot water soaking feet, but adding edible salt to soaking feet. Salt can help the body to diminish inflammation and sterilize, and soaking feet in hot water can dredge the meridians on the soles of the feet, which is a very good method for female friends who are often constipated.
Soaking feet in hot water with vinegar can remove foot odor.
Some female friends' smelly feet are a shameful thing, and they dare not be easily exposed to others' sight, so it is easy to give off an unpleasant smell. But now the female friends with smelly feet are saved. You can add some vinegar to the foot bath to relieve it, which can not only remove foot odor, but also prevent beriberi, dispel dampness and dispel cold.
4. Adding dried tangerine peel to soak feet can nourish the stomach and warm the stomach.
As we all know, it is cold in winter, and our stomachs are easy to catch cold. Therefore, female friends can warm and nourish their stomachs by soaking their feet in hot water, especially those with poor gastrointestinal function. Adding a little dried tangerine peel to foot bath water can strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves.
In addition to the above points, soaking your feet directly with hot water for half an hour before going to bed every night can help female friends to promote sleep and make you sleep more sweetly. In addition, after soaking your feet, you can get a good health care effect by giving your feet a full massage every day.
Female friends who love beauty can also add some milk or lemon slices to the water in the process of soaking their feet with hot water, which can moisturize the skin of feet and make the skin of feet tender and smooth. Soak your feet with lemon slices, and your feet will emit a faint lemon fragrance, which is very fragrant and comfortable. In fact, our feet walk every day. If we don't take care of them and massage them, it will make the skin of our feet produce too thick keratin, and the blood circulation of our feet will be much worse. Therefore, female friends can use the above methods to soak their feet, and the health care effect is very good.
2. Precautions for soaking feet in winter
First, children are forbidden to soak their feet. The arch of the foot is formed from an early age, so we should pay attention to protection from an early age.
If you often wash or iron 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 of your feet, and it is easy to form flat feet.
Two, some patients with acute infectious diseases and patients with hemorrhagic diseases are forbidden to soak their feet.
Third, some patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetic patients need to follow the doctor's advice.
Fourth, the water temperature for soaking feet should not be too high, generally below 50℃, and it is required to be hot but not hot. If you feel the water temperature, don't measure it with your hands, just feel it with your feet.
If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels on the feet will easily expand excessively, and the blood in the body will flow more to the lower limbs, which will easily lead to insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney, which is not good for the body.
5. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach. In the long run, it will make people malnourished.
6. Massage your feet slowly, consistently and easily with your hands when soaking your feet, starting from the instep and then to the instep until it gets hot. This can dilate local blood vessels, excite peripheral nerves, accelerate blood circulation and enhance metabolism.
Long-term persistence not only has health care function, but also has good curative effect on dizziness, insomnia, dreaminess and other symptoms caused by neurasthenia.
Seven, to wash while heating water to keep the water temperature, foot bath time shall not be less than 65438 05 minutes, but also can't soak all over the sweat, in case of loss of vital energy.
After washing your feet, gently rub and massage your toes and soles with a dry towel. This method has a good hypnotic effect.
Nine, you can't fall asleep immediately after soaking your feet, and you can't fall asleep until the whole body heat is slowly reduced.
Ten, foot bath bucket should be cleaned in time, keep clean.