As early as Huangdi Neijing, there was a record of "treating soup by disease". Shuo Wen Jie Zi says: "Soup is hot, too", and "soup" here means hot water.
Nowadays, hot water can be seen everywhere in life. However, "keeping in good health with hot water" cannot be summarized by "drinking more hot water".
Drink hot water
People in China like to drink hot water. In fact, drinking more hot water does have many benefits, such as: it can promote metabolism and discharge excess water; Accelerate blood circulation and play a role in warming up and sweating; Improve digestive enzyme activity and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis.
However, drinking hot water is also particular.
First, control the temperature. Drinking hot water is not "boiling water". Hot water for drinking should be around 40%. For example, after boiling hot water, let it stand for 10~ 15 minutes, which is almost the right temperature, or sip it with your lips.
Try to avoid drinking repeatedly boiled water, even if you use a water dispenser, it is best to "burn with drinking".
Bath hot water
Hot water sitz bath can raise local temperature, relax muscles, accelerate blood circulation, and make people feel warm and comfortable.
For people who often sit for a long time, hot water sitz bath can promote the dissipation and absorption of local inflammatory exudates, and can also prevent hemorrhoids, anal fissure, proctoptosis, anal pruritus, chronic prostatitis, perineal inflammation and other diseases.
The water temperature should not be too hot when sitting in the bath, and you can soak for 15~20 minutes each time.
In addition, pay attention to the following points before taking a bath:
It is beneficial to the effect of sitz bath to urinate first.
Women are forbidden to sit in the bath during menstruation.
For men, testicles are afraid of heat, and the temperature higher than the skin will reduce their spermatogenic function. Patients with reproductive needs should not take a bath.
Pumping "hot water"
Pour a cup of hot water and fumigate the face with hot water steam, which can often bring people a very comfortable feeling. If you can focus on fumigation of eyes, nose and mouth, you can also relieve a variety of discomfort symptoms.
Especially in the winter when colds are high, you can often fill your nose with hot water to moisten your lungs.
People with symptoms of "getting angry" can also add some Chinese herbal medicines such as Folium Isatidis or Flos Lonicerae to the water, which can play a good role in clearing away heat and reducing fire.
For people who often have dry eyes, putting hot water under their face and fumigating their eyes with steam can relieve discomfort symptoms well.
It should be noted that when hot water fumigates the face, the water temperature should not be too high, and it is most comfortable to choose about 45% warm water, which can also prevent burns.
Each fumigation time should be controlled at 5~ 10 minute. It is better to close your eyes when fumigating your eyes.
Use "hot water"
Hot compress therapy has the functions of dilating blood vessels, improving local blood circulation, promoting local metabolism, relieving muscle spasm, promoting inflammation and absorbing blood stasis.
Generally speaking, the following discomforts can be solved by hot compress:
Dry eye: Hot compress around the eyes with a towel can reduce eye fatigue.
Deafness: Applying a towel to the ear or rubbing it gently can prevent functional deafness caused by ischemia.
Dizziness: applying a hot towel to the back of the head for a few minutes at a time can improve the dizziness symptoms of some patients.
Stiff neck: a slight stiff neck can be applied to the affected area with a hot towel, and the discomfort can be improved by gently turning the head.
Trauma: you can't apply hot compress during the stress period of sports injury, but if there is no bleeding or swelling 2-3 days after the injury, you can use hot towel to relieve the symptoms.
It should be noted that clean towels should be selected for hot compress, soaked in hot water at 40~45℃, wrung out and applied to the affected area, and there should be no burning sensation when touching the skin.
It is best to cover the affected area with a clean cloth or cotton pad and change the towel every 5 minutes. The time of each hot compress is 15~20 minutes, and it is applied 3~4 times a day.
Soak hot water
Soaking feet is a health care behavior that many people like, and its advantages are not repeated here. Only the following precautions need to be reminded again:
At nine o'clock in the evening, the kidney meridian is weak in qi and blood. At this time, soaking feet can nourish kidney and liver.
The water temperature is 40 ~45, so it is appropriate to feel warm and comfortable. The amount of water should submerge the ankle and soak for 10~ 15 minutes until the whole body is slightly hot and starts to sweat.
When soaking feet, you can also put 15 ~ 20g Zanthoxylum bungeanum into water with gauze and massage your feet slowly with your hands. Dry it with a towel immediately after soaking, pay attention to keep your feet warm, and don't get cold again.
Patients with cardiac insufficiency, severe vascular diseases of lower limbs, unstable blood pressure, foot inflammation, etc. You should use hot water to soak your feet carefully or under the guidance of a doctor.
Produced by Jilin Daily
Planning: Jiang
Author: Zhuang Zhuang