What are the benefits of soaking feet for women?
1, women often soak their feet to relieve menstrual pain. Soaking feet can promote blood circulation and relieve menstrual pain, so women can soak their feet every day during menstruation. If they want to strengthen the relief, they can add some drugs to speed up blood circulation, such as salvia miltiorrhiza.
2, women often soak their feet to relieve cold hands and feet. Soaking feet with hot water can keep out the cold, dispel the cold in the body and relieve the cold of hands, feet and knees. Of course, it is better to add ginger and old ginger to the foot bath water.
3. Women often soak their feet to lose weight. Most women exercise less every day and get fat easily, while soaking their feet can promote metabolism and achieve the effect of losing weight.
4, women often soak their feet and freckle. Long spots on women's faces are often caused by women's secretion disorder and metabolic problems, so soaking feet can completely solve and improve this problem, so that women can speed up metabolism, discharge impurities and rejuvenate.
What are the taboos for soaking feet?
1, water temperature is too high
The water temperature of soaking feet should not be too high. Many people think that the higher the water temperature, the better as long as it is within their tolerance, but it is not. The best water temperature for soaking feet is below 50℃, which requires hot but not scalding. Feel the water temperature with your feet instead of your hands.
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.
But also make the cuticle dry and chapped, and even burn the skin.
2, bubble barrel cleaning is not thorough
If the foot bath tub is not thoroughly cleaned or the tub wall is not treated with anti-bacteria, the bacteria on the feet can easily remain in the tub wall, causing repeated foot infections, so it is very important to choose a good foot bath tub.
There is too little water.
It is best to soak your feet in a deep wooden bucket or a porcelain basin with a large bottom area, so that your feet can be comfortably laid flat, and it is best to let the water soak all the way to your calves.
4. I am half-hearted when soaking my feet.
Don't read books or watch TV when soaking your feet, so it's easy to achieve the effect of "getting burned back to the yuan"
5. Go to bed immediately after soaking your feet
You can't sleep immediately after soaking your feet. Rub your feet when your feet are hot, and wear socks to keep warm in time. It is best to go to bed after the whole body heat gradually decreases.
6, soaking feet for too long
The foot soaking time should not be too long, and the appropriate time is 15-2030 minutes. When soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should temporarily stop soaking their feet and have a rest if they feel chest tightness and dizziness.
Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so their families should try the water temperature first to prevent burns.
7, menstrual abuse of traditional Chinese medicine foot bath
The problem of women's menstrual period is more complicated. If you can't find the reason, soaking your feet with traditional Chinese medicine can not only relieve it, but also aggravate the symptoms such as dysmenorrhea.
Therefore, if women want to treat menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea by soaking their feet with traditional Chinese medicine, it is best to consult a doctor and prescribe medicine according to their own situation.
8. Rice soaks feet
It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal. It will affect the blood supply to your stomach, which will lead to malnutrition in the long run.
After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water immediately after eating, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead, which will affect digestion and absorption for a long time and lead to nutritional deficiency. Therefore, it is best to soak your feet for half an hour after meals.