1, soak your feet in a bucket. More water, enough heat and a long time. You can't just put some water in the basin.
2. The best time to soak your feet is 7-9 pm and 7-9 pm. This is the time when the kidney meridian is the weakest, and soaking your feet can just replenish your blood.
Don't soak your feet for too long. Generally, 20 minutes is the most suitable time. Every time I soak my feet, I usually feel warm and slightly sweaty, even if I soak them. Drink plenty of water after soaking feet 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.
4, the temperature of foot bath water should not be too high, depending on everyone's specific heat resistance, the temperature can be lower at first, then slowly add hot water and keep heating until the whole body is hot. The normal body temperature is 36℃~37℃, and the temperature of foot bath water is 2℃~3℃ higher than the normal body temperature, which is about 40℃.
You can add something to your feet, but don't add anything casually. 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.
Expansion: the benefits of soaking feet
Relieve fatigue: Soaking feet with hot water for a while will not only promote blood circulation, but also alleviate and improve sleep quality, especially suitable for insomnia patients.
Improve frostbite: you can soak a pot of hot water before going to bed every night, and then fully soak your hands and feet for about 30 minutes, which not only helps to relieve fatigue, but also promotes blood circulation, improves frostbite and improves sleep quality.
Prevention of diseases: There are many acupoints on the soles of feet. If you insist on soaking your feet every day, you can not only improve the cold condition of your hands and feet, but also help promote metabolism and effectively prevent cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and heart disease.
Disadvantages of soaking feet in winter
Chest tightness and dizziness: soak your feet and grasp the time. If it takes more than 30 minutes, it is easy to have insufficient blood supply to the brain because blood flows to the lower limbs, which leads to chest tightness, dizziness and other symptoms.
Malnutrition: If you soak your feet immediately after dinner, it is easy to cause problems in blood supply to the stomach, and then most of the blood in the body will flow into the digestive tract, which will easily lead to long-term malnutrition.
What should I soak my feet with?
1, soaking feet with salt water
The method of soaking feet in salt water is very simple. Just add two tablespoons of salt to half a basin of hot water. Soaking feet with salt water often can sterilize and prevent beriberi, and can also keep the skin of feet smooth and clean.
Step 2 soak your feet in ginger juice
Soaking feet with ginger juice is to add a few pieces of beaten ginger to warm water, which has the effect of dispelling cold and has a good effect on relieving the symptoms of cold hands and feet.
3, vinegar soaking feet
Add a few spoonfuls of white vinegar to warm water, and the vinegar is soaked. Soaking feet with vinegar can moisturize the skin, eliminate fatigue and treat sleep disorders.
4, traditional Chinese medicine foot bath
People with qi deficiency can choose nourishing drugs such as Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus and Atractylodes macrocephala. Patients with hypertension should soak their feet with chrysanthemum, medlar, mulberry branch, salvia miltiorrhiza and borneol. If you need to promote blood circulation and tonify kidney, you can choose Angelica sinensis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Carthami Flos, Radix Dipsaci, etc. In winter, the skin is dry and chapped easily. You can choose cassia twig, honeysuckle, safflower and other traditional Chinese medicines, decoct them in a casserole, then pour the decocted liquid into a bucket, add hot water and soak them for about 30 minutes every day.
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