This spring, the weather was unusually humid and the temperature fluctuated. This climate is easy to catch a cold. Foot bath can be carried out all year round. Soaking feet and rising sun in spring also makes many cold patients consult this aspect. The following explains whether soaking feet is helpful for colds from two aspects: the health care principle and the benefits of soaking feet. A cold is generally a respiratory infection caused by cold entering the body. Then let's take a look at the health principle of soaking feet. Soaking feet with hot water can promote blood circulation, promote metabolism, soak feet at acupoints, and promote the penetration of drugs in water into the capillaries of feet. Then we can see from the health principles of soaking feet that it is useful to soak feet with a cold. So how to improve your cold by soaking your feet? First, soak your feet with hot water. Soaking feet directly with hot water can dispel the cold to a certain extent, enhance the body's immunity, and is also very helpful for colds. Second, ginger slices soak your feet. Buy some ginger, slice it, soak it in hot water at high temperature for one minute, then add cold water to the hot water, adjust the problem of hot water to about 40 degrees, and you can use it to soak your feet. Soaking feet with ginger slices has a good effect on dispelling cold and is of great help to colds. Third, Chinese medicine soaks feet. The principle of soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine is the same as that with ginger slices. It is also through the heat of hot water that the effective components of the drug penetrate into the capillaries of the feet and make the human body absorb the drug components. It is useful to soak your feet in cold water, but you must learn the correct method of soaking your feet, so as to maximize the effect of soaking your feet. In addition, don't soak your feet to improve your cold to a great extent. It is recommended to take medicine by soaking feet, which is more effective.

Can you soak your feet with hot water for a cold?

Sure, but if you have a cold, you must drink more water.

Is it useful to soak feet with ginger for colds?

Yes, ginger has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

Can soaking feet treat a cold?

Soaking feet can't cure a cold. Soaking feet is mainly to regulate the blood circulation of feet. Although the human body is a whole, soaking feet can regulate the whole body, but from the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, feet mainly include liver and kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. However, the lung meridian and large intestine meridian in this traditional Chinese medicine for treating colds are not distributed in the feet, so soaking feet alone can't treat colds. A cold needs more diet and rest, and can also be treated by acupuncture and cupping on the back of the neck.

Can a cold soak your feet?

Cold and cold can soak your feet.

Suggestion: Chinese medicine believes that colds are mostly caused by exogenous pathogens and dysfunction of lung and health. The principle of soaking feet in medicated bath is to disperse the lung and relieve exterior syndrome, and to perspire and eliminate evil. Modern research shows that Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Mulberry Leaves and Chrysanthemum morifolium have antibacterial and antiviral effects, as well as the effects of expelling wind and dissipating heat. Soaking feet with medicated bath can improve blood circulation, enhance immune function, diminish inflammation and sterilize, shorten the course of disease, reduce complications and prevent colds from recurring.