As we all know, it is very effective to soak your feet with hot water before going to bed at night. Especially when soaking feet in winter night, the whole body is warm and super comfortable. There may be fewer people soaking their feet in summer. In fact, soaking feet in summer is also very comfortable, sweating and relaxing.
Insist on soaking feet with hot water every night. What will happen in a year?
1. What are the advantages of soaking feet for half an hour every night?
(1) Promote sleep
Soaking feet with hot water at night can relieve fatigue, relax the whole body and help promote sleep.
(2) Relieve stress
Soaking feet can relax our whole body and mind and help to relieve the pressure of daily life and work.
(3) promoting body circulation
When soaking feet, hot water seeps into our bodies from the soles of our feet and transfers heat, which helps to accelerate the body circulation and is beneficial to our health.
(4) Relieve colds and headaches
When soaking feet, hot water seeps into the body from the soles of the feet. Vasodilation can make blood flow from the head to the feet, thus helping to relieve colds and headaches.
(5) Relieve rheumatism and arthritis
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, soaking feet is also good for other systemic diseases, such as rheumatism, arthritis, colds and other common diseases. As long as you insist on soaking your feet every day, you can play a health care role in relieving symptoms.
(6) Enhance emotion
You can try to soak your feet with the person you love, and your feelings will heat up!
2. Precautions for soaking feet
(1) Q: How long is it better to soak each time?
I replied: generally soak 15-30 minutes. However, for patients with hypertension, asthma, heart disease and so on. It is best not to soak your feet for more than 15 minutes, but you can increase it to half an hour if you feel that your body is normal. If you are an old man, you can soak for 20 minutes.
(2) Q: Can you soak every day?
I replied: I can basically soak every day.
(3) Q: Can everyone soak?
I replied: some people are not suitable for soaking feet. For example, heart disease, low blood pressure, severe beriberi, foot trauma or inflammation are not suitable for soaking feet.
(4) Q: When is a good time to soak in the evening?
I replied: it is better to soak your feet around 9 pm. It's time to get ready for bed after taking a bath and washing your feet. Soaking feet before going to bed can not only relieve fatigue, but also help you fall asleep and improve the quality of sleep.
(5) Q: What are the taboos for soaking feet?
I replied: Again, heart disease, low blood pressure, severe beriberi, foot injury or inflammation are not suitable for soaking feet. Don't soak your feet for half an hour after dinner. Too full or too hungry is not suitable for soaking feet. By the way, pregnant women had better not do foot massage barefoot.
(6) Q: Can I add Chinese medicine to soak my feet?
I replied: it doesn't matter whether it is added or not. This can be decided according to your actual situation. If you want to supplement some Chinese medicine, you'd better consult a professional doctor.
Bathing has a good effect on the body, but not everyone is suitable for soaking feet for a long time. For example, patients with heart disease, low blood pressure, beriberi and foot trauma are not allowed to soak their feet. And when they eat too much or starve to death, they are not allowed to soak their feet to avoid some accidental injuries.
I like "the world belongs to you and me, but in the final analysis, it is still those healthy people!" " "Live long!" A healthy body begins with learning to keep in good health, and the key to keeping in good health begins with soaking feet.
At first, soaking feet was just to relieve fatigue, promote blood circulation and help sleep.
But unconsciously, I persisted for more than two years, soaking my feet at 9- 10 every night.
Soaking feet is a way of keeping in good health, and we should persist in changing it after one year. I think it's just like reading, running and eating. It can't be done overnight.
Its effect is undergoing subtle changes, such as improving sleep quality and reducing colds and fever.
There are many subtle and taboo studies on the function and change of foot bath.
As the saying goes, "You need to protect your roots, and you also need to protect your feet." Feet are the "second heart" of human body. In order to protect it, we should attach importance to science.
Soaking feet with hot water can not only promote blood circulation of feet, relieve local muscle tension, but also help to eliminate fatigue and improve sleep.
According to Chinese medicine, foot is the starting and ending point of Yin San and Sanyang meridians of foot, which is closely related to all zang-fu organs and meridians of the whole body. Soaking feet with hot water can regulate the function of viscera and enhance physical fitness.
Soaking feet is suitable for health care in four seasons, and the health care effect is different in each season.
"Soak your feet in spring, and the sun rises and sets; Soak your feet in summer to get rid of damp heat; Soak your feet in autumn to moisten your lungs and intestines; Soak your feet in winter and your abdomen is warm. "
Let's see, what should we pay attention to when soaking our feet? (Foot bath taboo)
1. When you are full or hungry (30 minutes after a meal), you should not soak your feet;
2. Patients with beriberi should use their own special foot bath device to avoid cross infection;
3. Patients with severe heart disease and hypotension should not soak their feet for a long time to avoid syncope;
4. Diabetic patients must pay attention to the water temperature when soaking their feet;
Children (under 7 years old), the elderly and pregnant women should be careful to soak their feet.
For soaking feet, there are some experiences and suggestions for soaking feet:
1. The best time to soak your feet: around 9 pm (the best time to tonify kidney and detoxify);
2. The best water temperature for soaking feet: 40-50;
3. Soaking water: no calf (ankle up 20 cm);
4. Foot soaking effect: you can sweat slightly;
5. Foot bath equipment: wooden barrels are the best;
6. Foot soaking time: 15-25 minutes.
We know the precautions and suggestions for soaking feet. Because soaking feet is the key to health preservation, it has a good auxiliary effect on the treatment of many diseases.
Different herbs have different effects of soaking feet:
1. salt bubble bath
Adding two spoonfuls of salt to warm water can enhance memory, delay aging and prevent foot crack;
2. Ginger or ginger bath
Adding a few pieces of crushed ginger or ginger to soak feet with warm water can prevent flu, dispel cold and remove dampness, and effectively relieve cold hands and feet;
Soak in vinegar
Soak your feet with warm water by adding 3 tablespoons of white vinegar, which can neutralize acidic substances in the body, soften blood vessels and moisturize the skin, beauty beauty;
4. mugwort bubble bath
Take 50g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, boil it in a pot for10min, pour it into a basin and naturally cool it to 40-50℃, then soak your feet, which can regulate qi and blood, dispel cold and remove dampness, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm, and effectively kill toe bacteria and skin itching, twice a week 1-2 times;
5. Chenpi Bath
Adding dried tangerine peel to warm water can dispel the cold in the body, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels;
6. Pepper bath
Wrap 30g pepper with gauze and tie it with rope. After boiling for 30 seconds to 1 min, pour Zanthoxylum bungeanum water into the basin to soak feet, which can dispel dampness, dispel cold, sterilize, prevent influenza, promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, 1 3 times a week.
You can choose one of the above herbs according to your own needs, instead of adding them all together and stewing pig's trotters in a cauldron (covering your mouth).
The above methods are all tried by individuals, experienced by themselves, shared with friends and relatives around them, and the neighbors have the habit of soaking their feet.
I like this sentence very much. "All life is desperate, and the last battle is health." May we all have a healthy body and enjoy a happy and beautiful life for the rest of our lives.