So, is soaking feet with hot water every day really a health preservation or a chronic suicide?
1, improve blood circulation and relieve fatigue.
Soak your feet with warm water. Due to heat expansion and cold contraction, the capillaries on your feet and even your calves expand and promote local blood circulation. As the lowest part of the human body, the foot gathers a lot of peripheral circulation and nerve endings, which is the place where the human body bears the greatest pressure. People have to walk and exercise every day, whether it is the muscles or bones on the feet, or even the blood vessels and nerves, they have to bear the pressure from the upper body, which may cause local blood circulation disorder and local tenderness and fatigue, and soaking hot feet can solve this problem well.
Soaking feet with hot water can dilate blood vessels, accelerate local blood flow, nourish nerves and release lactic acid accumulated in muscles, which has a very good effect on relieving foot fatigue and foot pain.
2, stimulate acupuncture points, health care.
Chinese medicine believes that every organ of the human body has a projection area on the body surface, which is called acupuncture point by Chinese medicine. There are many acupoints on people's feet, which are often closely related to human health. For example, Yongquan point, the area of the sole of the foot is above 1/3 and below 1/3 of the second and third toe suture, which is Yongquan point. Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate these acupoints well. Take Yongquan point as an example. Stimulating Yongquan point can treat syncope, dizziness, heatstroke, insomnia, difficulty defecation and so on. In acupuncture department, acupuncture is used to stimulate Yongquan point to treat these diseases.
3. Enhance immunity
People with weak constitution may have these feelings, and cold limbs are often caused by poor peripheral circulation. Soaking hot feet can enhance peripheral circulation, improve capillary circulation disorder and promote blood circulation in limbs, thus enhancing the body's immunity.
There is also a saying in the countryside that colds are often caused by cold feet. These are the experiences of ordinary people, but they all have very strict scientific basis. Yongquan, the largest acupoint on the sole of the foot, is regarded by Chinese medicine as the projecting organ of Yongquan. If Yongquan suffers from cold for a long time, the function of the kidney will decline. As we all know, the kidney is the largest metabolic and excretory organ of human body, and it also has the functions of secreting hormones, regulating immunity and stimulating hematopoiesis. Therefore, stimulating Yongquan point has a very positive effect on kidney protection, that is, it can improve immunity well.
4, prevent skin diseases and local infections
Many people have the problem of sweaty feet. After a day's work, socks are often wet, while shoes are closed, which is easy to breed a lot of bacteria. In the long run, there will be some skin diseases, such as dampness, tinea pedis and beriberi. And it's humid, and beriberi is itchy. It is easy to get infected if you scratch, so there are some problems such as rotten feet every day.
1, patients with hypotension
If patients with hypotension suddenly soak their feet in hot water, the temperature of lower limbs rises sharply, capillaries suddenly expand in large quantities, and blood quickly rushes to the surface and skin of lower limbs, leading to rapid cerebral ischemia in a short time, which is easy to cause hypotensive cerebrovascular accidents.
2. Diabetic patients
The peripheral nerve sensitivity of diabetic patients is often lower than that of normal people, so when they soak their feet with hot water, they often don't feel the heat, and when they react, they often have caused burns on their lower limbs. In addition, patients with severe diabetes are prone to diabetic foot and lower limb ulcers. At this time, if you soak your feet again, it may cause skin ulceration and infection, so diabetic patients are not suitable for soaking their feet with hot water.
3. Patients with coronary heart disease
Coronary artery stenosis often leads to myocardial ischemia and necrosis in patients with coronary heart disease. If patients with coronary heart disease often soak their feet with hot water, it will aggravate coronary artery ischemia and myocardial ischemia, and easily induce angina pectoris and coronary heart disease.
4. People with high blood pressure fluctuation
Nowadays, there are more and more people with hypertension, and blood pressure fluctuation is also a very important problem. People with poor blood pressure control should try to avoid soaking feet in hot water for a long time, because soaking feet will dilate blood vessels and affect blood pressure. In people with unstable blood pressure, the activity of capillaries and the elastic retraction force of blood vessel walls are weakened, which is easy to cause blood vessels to burst and induce cardiovascular accidents.
5. Children
Children's foot bathing should be carried out under the supervision of adults, because hot water is more irritating to children's skin, and sometimes children's nerve reflex development is not complete enough, and it is easy to be burned.
First, don't soak your feet immediately after eating.
We have all noticed that it is easy to feel sleepy after a full meal, because after a full meal, the blood is concentrated in the gastrointestinal tract and the brain is slightly ischemic and hypoxic, so it looks sleepy. If you soak your feet immediately after a full meal, it will easily lead to a rapid influx of blood into the lower limbs, which will lead to insufficient blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract, affect digestion, and lead to abdominal distension and indigestion.
Second, don't go to bed immediately after soaking your feet.
Some people go to bed immediately after soaking their feet, which is actually unscientific. After soaking feet, the capillaries are all dilated, which is prone to hypotension. If you lie down and sleep quickly at this time, it may cause dizziness. In addition, if you can do some simple foot massage after soaking your feet, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
Third, soak your feet and concentrate on enjoying it.
Some people play mobile phones and watch TV while soaking their feet, so you can't enjoy the Shu Yue feeling brought by soaking your feet, and you may even get burned. Listening to soothing music and relaxing when soaking feet has a very good effect on relieving fatigue and improving fatigue.
Fourth, soaking feet should not be too long.
There are many benefits of soaking feet, and the process is very comfortable, so many people soak for half an hour or even an hour, which is prone to dehydration and dryness of foot skin. The correct soaking time should be about 15 minutes.
Conclusion: Soaking feet is a very popular way to keep fit, but many people ignore the negative effects of soaking feet, especially for some people with health risks. Only by correctly understanding the advantages and disadvantages of soaking feet, keeping in good health scientifically and soaking feet healthily can we enjoy life better.