Do not soak your feet for more than 1 hour, and it is advisable to sweat slightly on your head. Use an electronic constant-temperature footbath, put your feet in when the water temperature can adapt, and then heat them, so that you can gradually adapt to the temperature.

But soaking feet in hot water is also taboo. For example, people with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water if their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection.

Generally speaking, it is better to soak your feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day, preferably not more than half an hour. Especially for the elderly, if they soak their feet for too long, they will have symptoms such as sweating and palpitation. Pregnant women should not soak their feet in hot water for a long time.

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"Soak your feet in spring and the sun will rise; Soaking feet in summer can dispel dampness and summer heat; Soak your feet in autumn to moisten your lungs and intestines; Soak your feet in winter and your abdomen is warm. " This is the statement mentioned in the health books of traditional Chinese medicine, which mainly shows that foot bathing is suitable for all seasons, but the health care effect is different in each season.

Soaking feet in summer is good and well-founded. When the humidity is just right in summer and the spleen and stomach are blocked, there will be symptoms such as loss of appetite, lethargy, listlessness and irritability. Soaking feet in summer is helpful to dispel summer heat and dampness, prevent colds, cheer people up, stimulate appetite and promote sleep. Because the foot is the most important part after the heart, and there are a lot of capillaries, soaking the foot with warm water can better stimulate the meridians and invigorate the viscera function of the human body.

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