With the improvement of health awareness, we pay more and more attention to daily health care, and soaking feet is a good choice. We often see many pedicure health centers when we walk in the street. But in order to save money, we can also soak our feet at home for health. The following Chinese medicine will introduce the benefits of soaking feet in salt water for everyone. Let's have a look.
What are the benefits of soaking feet?
If you soak your feet for 15 minutes every day, it can play a health care role. If you soak your feet with hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, your headache will be obviously relieved after about 15-20 minutes. This is because the blood vessels in both feet dilate and blood flows from head to foot, which can relatively reduce brain congestion and thus relieve headaches. For the headache caused by cold and fever, soaking feet with hot water can also help reduce the fever.
If you can massage Yongquan point while soaking your feet and press Taichong point on the back of your big toe, it will also help lower your blood pressure. Therefore, insisting on scientific pedicure, especially for alleviating all kinds of occupational diseases that modern urbanites are prone to, can often get twice the result with half the effort.
Experts pointed out that salt has good antiviral and antibacterial effects. Putting salt into hot water, using the heat in the water, the skin can better absorb the antiviral and antibacterial components of salt water, which really has a certain curative effect on some patients with tinea pedis. As for the saying that anti-aging and tonifying kidney can cure all diseases, it is exaggerated.
According to reports, the method of soaking feet with salt water is to add a spoonful of salt to half a basin of warm water, stir and dissolve it, and then soak feet in water for about 15 minutes. If there is a wound in the foot, it is not advisable to soak the foot with salt water. Let's take a look at the benefits of soaking feet in salt water.
It is best to soak your feet at 9 pm.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the sole of the foot is the intersection of meridians, and there are more than 60 acupoints and reflex zones connected with human organs, corresponding to human organs respectively. Soaking feet has the functions of relaxing channels and activating collaterals and improving blood circulation.
Soaking feet in different time periods plays a slightly different role. Choose to soak your feet around 9 pm, and the kidney protection effect is the best.
The length of soaking feet is particular.
Since it is a foot bath, it is necessary to embody the word "bubble". When soaking feet, the water should not pass through the ankle joint, and the water temperature should not be too hot. It is appropriate to soak feet at about 40℃ for about half an hour.
Chinese medicine experts believe that drinking a cup of tea or boiling water, watching TV and chatting with family members, soaking feet with health-care Chinese medicine, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, is indeed a good thing to get rid of illness and strengthen the body.
Benefits of soaking feet in salt water
1, soaking feet with salt water can cure beriberi. Treating athlete's foot with salt water is because salt has good antiviral and antibacterial effects. When salt is put into hot water, the skin can better absorb the antiviral and antibacterial components of salt water by using the heat in the water, so as to realize the effect of treating beriberi by soaking feet with salt water.
2. You can wash your feet by soaking your feet in salt water. Because of the disinfection and sterilization of salt, the cleaning ability of salt water is very strong, and feet can be washed by soaking in salt water.
3, salt water soaking feet can exfoliate. Because salt has the function of exfoliation, you can use the heat in hot water to enhance the exfoliation effect by soaking your feet in hot water with salt.
4, salt water soaking feet can tonify the kidney and resist aging. Because our feet are farthest from the heart, there is little blood supply. Soaking feet with style salt water can make the effective components of salt water enter the kidney and heart, promote blood circulation, and achieve the effect of tonifying kidney and resisting aging.
5, salt water soaking feet can cure colds. Soaking feet with salt water can promote blood circulation and get rid of cold feet, thus treating colds.
6, salt water soaking feet can help sleep, anti-aging. Often washing feet with salt water, combined with massaging Yongquan and other acupoints, can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and anti-aging, treat colds, and even enhance memory and make the mind feel relaxed.
The best way to teach you to soak your feet
The convenience of modern bathing makes many people feel troublesome and don't like soaking their feet alone. However, the best way to soak your feet is to soak your feet alone in a higher bucket. You can relax the meridians on the feet and calves through heat, thus accelerating blood circulation and improving blood supply to organs such as the heart and brain. With the continuous increase of heat, you will sweat slightly, which can dredge meridians, discharge cold and waste in the body, regulate body temperature and reduce virtual fire.
In addition, the improvement of blood circulation has a very obvious two-way adjustment effect on blood pressure.
Expert tip: After a busy day, you must spend half an hour relaxing and adjusting your body. As long as you stick to it every day, just soaking your feet will make you live longer 10 years.
1, soak your feet in a bucket.
Although wooden barrels have good insulation effect, they are too heavy and expensive to use. You can buy a higher plastic bucket in the supermarket instead and heat the water while soaking. There are many electric footbath now. It would be better if they could be made higher and as deep as buckets.
2. It is best to soak your feet at 4-5 pm.
Most people will choose to soak their feet before going to bed, which is convenient and conducive to sleep.
However, if you have enough time, you can soak your feet around 4-5 pm, that is, when the bladder and kidney meridians are the most vigorous. At this time, the effect of tonifying kidney is the best.
Tip: Every time you soak your feet, you usually soak your whole body until it is hot and slightly sweaty. Even if you soak your feet, drink plenty of water and replenish water in time. It is best to drink warm water or ginger brown sugar water while soaking feet, so that more heat can be generated inside the body, and cold and dampness can be eliminated in time through sweating.
3. Foot bath water temperature
It depends on everyone's specific heat resistance. At first, the temperature can be lower, then slowly add hot water and keep heating until the whole body is hot.
4. Don't add anything to the water for soaking feet.
It's best not to add anything to the water for soaking feet, because the drugs used for soaking feet are easily absorbed due to the action of heat. When the body is cold, you can add mugwort leaves to soak together, but you can't add them every day. Add 1-2 times a week, and just add a handful of mugwort leaves.