1. How long can I soak my feet after a meal?
1. soak for an hour after dinner.
Under normal circumstances, many of us will take a bath and soak our feet after dinner. At this time, it is often within half an hour after dinner. If you soak your feet immediately, it will affect the blood circulation of the gastrointestinal tract and lead to indigestion. Also affected. So if you want to soak your feet, you'd better soak them about an hour after dinner.
Step 2 soak your feet for a long time
Many people like soaking their feet for a long time. In fact, a foot bath takes about 20 minutes. This will not only cause the skin to be too dry, but also cause cardiovascular overload because the blood flows to the lower limbs for too long. In addition, everyone's physique is slightly different, and the dryness of the skin after soaking feet is also different, so it is recommended to use a little emollient to keep the feet moist.
Soaking feet after meals helps you sleep.
Soaking your feet with hot water after meals can speed up the blood circulation of your feet, and then the blood flow in your brain will decrease, and you will feel sleepy. In addition, soaking feet can also make the brain feel at ease and fall asleep faster. All these show that soaking feet after meals is helpful to sleep.
2. Precautions for soaking feet
First, the water temperature should not be too high. In order to avoid insufficient blood supply to important organs, the water temperature should be below 50℃;
Second, because the formation of arch began in childhood, it is not appropriate to soak children's feet for a long time by overheating;
Third, if women want to relieve dysmenorrhea and other symptoms by soaking their feet with traditional Chinese medicine during menstruation, it is best to consult a doctor in advance so as not to aggravate the condition due to careless medication.
3. Who is not suitable for soaking feet?
1, a developing child.
Developing children should not soak their feet at too high a temperature. Often soaking feet with overheated water will make plantar ligaments deform and relax due to heating, which is not conducive to the development of arch, and it is easy to induce flat feet after a long time.
2. Those who are on an empty stomach or full stomach.
People who are on an empty stomach or full stomach should not soak their feet, because the blood vessels in the feet dilate and the blood volume increases when soaking feet, which leads to the decrease of gastrointestinal and visceral blood and affects gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not conducive to digestion; Foot bath immediately after meals will reduce the blood volume of gastrointestinal tract and affect digestion.
3. People who are in great anger, great sorrow, great joy, mental stress and physical fatigue.
It is good to soak your feet, but before soaking your feet, you should find out who can't soak your feet, and do the precautions correctly, so as to keep healthy.
4, renal failure, heart failure and other critical patients.
Who can't soak their feet? Various critically ill patients such as renal failure and heart failure may have a strong reaction to the stimulation of the foot reflex area because of their unstable condition, which complicates the condition, so such people should not soak their feet.
5. Pregnant and menstruating women.
Who can't soak their feet? Women during pregnancy and menstrual period should not soak their feet, because Chinese medicine foot bath may stimulate women's gonad reflex area, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.
6. Diabetic patients.
Who can't soak their feet? Diabetic patients should also pay special attention to the level of water temperature, because such patients are prone to peripheral neuropathy, so that peripheral nerves can not normally perceive the external temperature. Even if the water temperature is high, they can't feel it, and they are easily burned.
7, the elderly should be careful to soak their feet.
Who can't soak their feet? Old people need to be extra careful when soaking their feet. Because more blood will rush to the lower limbs, people with weak constitution are prone to dizziness due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, and even faint in severe cases.
Tips: The elderly, especially patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, should pay special attention. If you feel chest tightness and dizziness, you should temporarily stop soaking your feet and lie in bed immediately.
8. Patients with various severe hemorrhagic diseases.
Who can't soak their feet? People suffering from various serious hemorrhagic diseases should not soak their feet, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematochezia, cerebral hemorrhage, gastric bleeding, uterine bleeding and other visceral bleeding. And this kind of people may cause local tissue bleeding when doing foot massage.
9, frozen feet can not be hot.
The feet are frozen, indicating that they have been attacked by extremely cold and strong winds, the temperature is lower than the normal bearing capacity of the body, and the skin and muscles are in a stiff state. At this time, if your feet are suddenly scalded by hot water, the temperature will change from cold to sudden heat, and the skin and muscles will not be able to stand the huge temperature difference of tens of degrees Celsius, thus aggravating the condition of frozen feet and even making the muscles and bones peel off seriously.
Therefore, when freezing your feet, you should rub them with your hands moderately to make your feet hot, instead of soaking your feet in hot water.
10, some patients with acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning and surgical emergencies.
Patients with acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning and surgical emergencies, such as trauma, fracture, burn, perforation and massive bleeding, may delay the best time for treatment.
1 1, people with yin deficiency constitution
Some people with yin deficiency constitution are sensitive, and they may sweat and feel dizzy when soaking their feet. Moreover, soaking feet will promote yang, while people with yin deficiency constitution are hotter, and soaking feet will aggravate yin deficiency and increase virtual fire. Don't soak your feet.
12, people with weak constitution
People who are weak are prone to collapse when they soak their feet or sweat. Soaking feet for too long may cause hypotension, and when it is serious, it will faint.
13, people with low blood pressure.
Soaking feet can promote blood circulation and dilate blood vessels, thus lowering blood pressure.
4. It is healthier to feed when soaking your feet.
(1) Salt water foot bath
When soaking your feet, you might as well sprinkle some salt in the water. Salt water can sterilize, prevent beriberi and make the skin of feet smooth. In addition, the temperature of foot bath water is about 40℃. When it gets cold, it needs to be heated continuously. If salt is added, the water will not cool easily, and the effect of soaking feet will be better.
The specific method is: add a spoonful of salt to a pot of hot water and soak it for 15-30 minutes to make the body start to heat up and sweat slightly; When soaking, you can rub the other foot with one foot, which is conducive to relaxing muscles and activating collaterals and accelerating blood circulation in the body; If combined with massage at Yongquan point (65438+ 0/3 foot off the toe), it can also promote sleep and delay aging; It is best to soak your feet at 5: 00-7: 00 p.m. after meals 1 hour. This time is the active period of kidney meridian, and the effect is better.
(2) adding traditional Chinese medicine
Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine or soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine tablets can achieve good conditioning and therapeutic effects. Of course, you need to make a prescription according to your own situation, or choose Chinese medicine foot bath tablets. If it is Chinese medicine to soak feet, boil the Chinese medicine directly, mix it with cold water, and soak feet at a suitable temperature.
(3) Artemisia argyi
Folium Artemisiae Argyi is also a very popular folk foot bath material, which can prevent colds, eliminate dampness and reduce fire. The method of mugwort soaking feet is also very simple. Boil water with mugwort leaves, and then add cold water. When the water temperature reaches about 40 degrees, you can soak your feet for 30 minutes.
(4) Soak feet with white vinegar
White vinegar soaks feet, which women like best. You should know that white vinegar can whiten, tighten and sterilize the skin. White vinegar can be added to soak feet, and the ratio of white vinegar to hot water can reach 1:20. Soak your feet directly When soaking your feet, rubbing your feet is better.
(5) Soak feet with ginger
Feet are cold and afraid of cold. Use a piece of ginger (a piece as big as a jujube) to pat it flat with a knife. Wrap safflower and a piece in gauze and put it in water to boil. Add a spoonful of salt to soak your feet.
(6) Red flowers soak feet
For blood stasis, the drugstore buys one or two pieces of safflower 10, wraps one in gauze and cooks it in water, and adds a spoonful of salt. The method is to smoke feet first and then soak feet to treat low back pain. The water for soaking feet must pass through the ankle bone. )
5. the benefits of soaking feet
1, promoting blood circulation
According to the theory of keeping in good health, the foot is farthest from the human heart and bears the heaviest burden. It has been said since ancient times that the second heart of the human body is also the most likely to cause poor blood circulation. It is recorded in medical classics that "a man with feet is still like a tree with roots, and the roots of the tree are exhausted first, and the old feet of the man are old first." For people with cold hands and feet, soaking feet is the best way to promote blood circulation.
2. Stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot.
Pressing the footsteps can also reflect whether there is something wrong with the corresponding liver. When doing pedicure, the masseur will feel pain and soreness when pressing our feet, but after pressing, he will feel relaxed all over. There are six main meridians on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet can stimulate these six meridians and promote blood circulation.
3. Adjuvant treatment of diseases
As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine attached great importance to the exercise and maintenance of the foot, and used foot massage (pedicure) to prevent and treat diseases. There is a folk saying that "the rich take tonic and the poor soak their feet", which shows the great role of soaking their feet. Modern people yearn for air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold food, so some people will feel cold and wet in their bodies. Soaking their feet can accelerate the discharge of cold in their bodies.
4. Improve sleep and eliminate insomnia.
Insisting on soaking feet also has a good effect on improving sleep. Soaking feet in water at 43 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes can reduce lactic acid in the blood. Moreover, the foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries. Soaking the foot with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This warm stimulation is reflected in the cerebral cortex, which plays an inhibitory role, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia. Soaking feet can increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, thus improving heart function, reducing heart load, promoting metabolism, and regulating meridians and qi and blood.