1, improve the quality of sleep: Insisting on soaking feet every day can play a role in regulating meridians and qi and blood, speeding up the blood flow in the head and supplementing the nutrition needed by the brain in time.
2. Eliminate fatigue and relieve stress: It is sultry in summer, and people easily feel tired and sleepy, especially those who go to work. Work pressure is great, so you can soak your feet at home properly, which can relax your mood and relieve stress.
3. Eliminating dampness and detoxifying: It is hot in summer, people like to choose to eat some cold food, or often interact with the outdoors in air-conditioned rooms, which will lead to the invasion of wet poison into the body. So you can soak your feet with hot water every night to expel toxins from your body, so as to get rid of dampness and achieve the effect of health care. Especially when the summer heat has arrived, the south will turn from sultry to humid, and more attention should be paid to eliminating dampness and discharging dampness.
4. Improve the body's immunity and resistance: In summer, people can enhance their resistance by soaking their feet to avoid diseases such as colds.
Extended data:
In addition, adding pepper to foot bath water has a good effect of helping sleep. In the view of Chinese medicine, pepper can warm the middle and relieve pain, dispel dampness and dispel cold. Soaking feet with Chili water and soaking feet with angelica and safflower have the same effect, both of which can promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, so that the whole body blood vessels are smooth and warm. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a natural disinfectant, and soaking feet with Zanthoxylum bungeanum water can also help treat beriberi. Matters needing attention for soaking feet in summer are:
1, it is not advisable to soak your feet when you are full and hungry; Don't soak your feet for too long, 20 minutes is better; Foot bath water should not be too hot, 45 degrees is more appropriate.
2, special people soak their feet for a long time leading to syncope: healthy people soak their feet in hot springs, but special people should pay attention. For example, patients with heart disease and cardiac insufficiency, people with low blood pressure and frequent dizziness should not soak their feet with too hot water or soak in hot springs for a long time.
Because soaking feet in hot water or soaking in hot springs will dilate blood vessels, coupled with the hot weather, the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will inevitably lead to ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as the heart and brain. For people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase the risk of illness.
3, beriberi patients should be careful of infection: people with beriberi, when the condition is serious enough to blister, it is not appropriate to soak their feet with hot water, because it is easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn are not easy to soak.
People's Network-Soaking feet with water and pepper in summer is more helpful for sleep. Matters needing attention in soaking feet in summer