Soaking feet is also very particular, especially as the ancients said that "people soak their feet for three feet, and life is thinner than paper". The health philosophy hidden behind this sentence is actually reminding everyone that every time you soak your feet, you should pay special attention to the way you soak your feet. If some details are not done well, soaking feet will bring us not benefits, but adverse effects on health. Therefore, in order to better understand the skills of soaking feet, everyone needs to have a certain understanding of these common sense.
1. Don't soak your feet with hot water.
Especially in winter, I often feel cold and my feet are numb. What should I do at this time? The first thing people think of is to soak their feet in hot water to keep warm. In fact, soaking your feet with hot water can warm you up, just pay attention to the water temperature. It's really inappropriate to soak your feet with boiling water.
Because when you soak your feet with boiling water, you may ignore the skin and blood vessels of your feet and their ability to withstand high temperatures. Perhaps the health care effect of soaking feet is not achieved, but it will burn the skin, which is not worth the candle. Some people also soak their feet and add water to keep the water temperature rising continuously, as if they were enduring high temperature soaking their feet. I would like to remind you that the warm water for soaking feet should not be too high, just a little higher than the body temperature. Being too hot will only bring trouble to your health.
2. Don't soak your feet with the washbasin.
Soaking feet is also very particular. Don't just fill the basin with water and start soaking. This is not right. It is actually wrong to soak your feet in a washbasin or bath. Why? As we all know, some people are easy to get beriberi, because the feet are easy to breed germs, especially fungi.
If you don't pay attention to hygiene, mix the footbath, washbasin and bath, then fungi will easily cross-infect and eventually bring trouble to health. Therefore, if you want to soak your feet healthily, the footbath should be strictly separated from the washbasin and bath, otherwise it will be extremely irresponsible to your body.
Don't soak your feet immediately after dinner.
You can take a proper walk after a meal to help digestion. But if you soak your feet immediately after eating, the effect will not be so obvious, because soaking your feet will accelerate blood circulation, especially in the lower limbs, which actually has an impact on the blood supply to the stomach.
Just after a meal, the body needs to supply more blood to meet the metabolic needs of the gastrointestinal tract, so don't do two things after a meal, one is to soak your feet, and the other is to go to bed immediately. These two things are closely related to health and health preservation. Everyone must bear in mind that if you do it right, soaking your feet is good for your health, otherwise it will only bring trouble to your health.
So, don't underestimate the matter of soaking feet. Although it is a small matter, it is really a big deal for health.