Soaking a hot foot before going to bed can not only achieve the cleaning effect, but also effectively eliminate fatigue and make you sleep more stably. Stick to soaking feet for a long time, and the three benefits will automatically come to you.
What are the benefits of soaking feet before going to bed?
1, promote blood circulation?
Legs and feet are located at the ends of our limbs, far from the blood supply position of the heart. If you often sit for a long time and lack exercise, it may lead to poor blood circulation in your legs and feet, leading to ischemia and hypoxia in your legs and feet. In severe cases, it may even lead to tissue necrosis, resulting in limited activities, which is extremely harmful to health.
When soaking feet, under the action of high temperature, the blood vessel wall will expand outward, so that the pressure of blood passing through the blood vessel will be reduced, which can effectively promote blood circulation in the legs and feet, and effectively alleviate and prevent varicose veins and thrombosis in the legs.
2. Relieve stress and promote sleep
Nowadays, many people are busy at work during the day, and they have to deal with a lot of things at home and abroad when they come home from work, so they are under great mental pressure. There are many important venous orifices on the soles of feet, so soaking feet can be a good stimulus. When the nerve transmits this stimulus to the cerebral cortex, the sympathetic nerve will automatically adjust, thus relaxing the nerve and relieving stress.
I have less mental stress and can sleep soundly at night. Soaking feet plays an important role in relieving mental stress and promoting sleep. Friends who are usually under great pressure take time to soak their feet before going to bed, which is good for their health.
3. Drive away the cold and keep warm
Soaking feet also has a good effect of dispelling cold and keeping warm, especially in the cold season. Soaking in a hot foot before going to bed is a rare enjoyment. Nowadays, many people have irregular work and rest, often stay up late, eat a lot of cold food, and maintain this unhealthy work and rest for a long time, which may disturb the balance of yin and yang in the body and lead to an increase in dampness and coldness in the body.
Especially for female friends, it is easier to catch cold and get wet. Female body cold can easily lead to dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders and so on. Over time, it may even lead to a series of serious gynecological diseases. Soaking feet can effectively remove moisture and cold in the body and play a good role in keeping warm. It's getting cold, so hot water feet can be arranged immediately.
The above three points are the benefits of common foot soaking. Long-term foot soaking has many benefits. But soaking feet is good, but if you don't master the right method, it may still cause harm to your body. The people below soak their feet, which may hurt their health. Don't make mistakes.
Who is not suitable for soaking feet?
1, foot skin ulceration?
People with ulcerated skin on their feet are not suitable for soaking their feet, especially some friends who like to add some medicine bags when soaking their feet. Some ingredients in the medicine bag may cause irritation to the skin of feet, but it is not conducive to skin healing, and even aggravate skin damage. If the skin of the feet is ulcerated, everyone should wait for the skin to heal before soaking their feet. Beriberi may also be accompanied by pus and skin damage. If this happens, you must go to treatment first.
2. Diabetic patients
Soaking feet can promote blood circulation to a certain extent, but it is not the case for diabetic patients. Diabetic foot may be caused by the disorder of carbohydrate metabolism in the body for a long time, which is called diabetic foot.
After endothelial damage, blood vessels will not contract and expand with the change of external temperature. Therefore, for diabetic patients, foot bath can not only promote blood circulation, but also aggravate endothelial damage.
3. Patients with varicose veins
For most people, soaking feet can prevent varicose veins, but for patients with varicose veins, this group of people is no longer suitable for soaking feet. Soaking feet in patients with varicose veins may increase local blood flow, thus further increasing the burden of venous reflux and making the symptoms of varicose veins more serious.
Generally speaking, soaking feet is a good health-keeping activity. Insist on soaking feet and all kinds of benefits uninvited. But you can't blindly soak your feet. Soaking your feet is very particular. Some people may do harm to the body, so you should also pay attention to some matters when soaking your feet.