Soaking feet in dog days is the wettest in summer. In order to cool off the heat, people often like to eat something cold, which brings chills to the body. Damp and cold are more likely to block the spleen and stomach, causing problems such as loss of appetite and poor appetite.
Foot is the densest place of all our acupoints, and the acupoints on foot can correspond to all meridians and organs. Soaking feet can effectively drive away the cold and moisture in the body and live comfortably for a year.
The water temperature and duration of soaking feet in summer are different from those in winter, so it is not necessary to overheat. The hotter the better. The water temperature is 40-45 degrees, which is slightly hotter than the human body.
You don't need to soak your feet as long as you do in winter. 15 to 20 minutes is enough. Soak for a long time, the water is cold, and moisture will also affect the body along the feet, which is harmful to the body.
When is the best time to soak your feet around 9 pm or before going to bed? The reason for choosing this time period is that the kidney meridian is weak at this time. At this time, soaking feet is conducive to promoting blood circulation and tonifying kidney, which is a kind of adjustment and relaxation for the whole body and helps to fall asleep quickly.
If you want to stay up late, you'd better soak your feet at 9 o'clock, which will greatly relieve your discomfort after staying up late and improve your sleep quality.
If you want to lose weight, if you can, you can soak your feet at three or four o'clock, relieve the meridians and relax the tension and discomfort of the spleen and stomach, so that you won't overeat at dinner, and at the same time accelerate the blood circulation of the whole body, which is conducive to the transformation of energy and weight loss.
How to soak your feet and "add some materials" better? Adding different things will have different magical effects! Come and study!
White vinegar 1, white vinegar soaking feet to help sleep.
Soaking feet with white vinegar for 30 minutes every day can regulate, dredge and relax nervous nerves, harmonize meridians and qi and blood, and greatly improve sleep.
2, white vinegar to eliminate onychomycosis
White vinegar has bactericidal effect. Soak your feet with 9 degree or 10 degree white vinegar for 30 minutes every day. Dry naturally after soaking, and onychomycosis will slowly disappear! However, this trick needs perseverance!
3, white vinegar can eliminate fatigue
White vinegar can accelerate the blood circulation of human body, improve the hypoxia state of various parts of the body, enhance the metabolism of various systems, and make fatigue disappear without a trace. The next day is sunny.
4. Moisturize and whiten skin
Soaking feet with white vinegar can also remove dead skin and keratin from legs and feet, thus whitening the skin.
5. Improve beriberi
Vinegar has a bactericidal effect, often soaking feet, which can prevent beriberi and prevent feet from rotting and peeling.
Ginger 1, for treating cold.
Soaking ginger in hot water with your thumb until the water temperature is appropriate (about 40 degrees) can effectively prevent the development of colds and play a preventive role.
2. Relieve cold hands and feet
Ginger can drive away cold, and the cold hands and feet are mainly due to insufficient blood supply, which can further improve blood circulation, thus treating winter diseases in summer and completely solving the problem of cold hands and feet in winter.
3, ginger foot bath treatment of rheumatism
Ginger has a special effect of expelling cold and wind, and rheumatism patients can effectively relieve symptoms by soaking their feet for half an hour every night. Soaking feet and calves in wooden barrels can relieve rheumatoid arthritis.
Pepper foot bath, the method is very simple, with a face wrapped in 50 grams of pepper is like soaking feet, pepper can be reused. Soaking feet with Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the functions of sterilization and flu prevention, relieving fatigue, dispelling cold, dredging blood vessels and regulating joints. It is the secret maintenance secret of old Chinese medicine practitioners.
Soaking feet is forbidden to be too hungry. Eating too little in summer is not suitable for soaking feet, which will accelerate the blood circulation of the whole body and may lead to hypoglycemia and dizziness.
It is not appropriate to soak your feet for half an hour after a meal. Soaking feet after a full meal may affect the blood supply to the stomach. After a meal, the blood in the human body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water at this time, it will affect digestion and absorption, leading to insufficient nutrition and digestive problems.
It is not appropriate to soak your feet after drinking. It is not advisable to soak your feet just after drinking wine, which will be harmful to your heart and digestive function. After soaking feet, the blood circulation of feet is accelerated, which will affect the digestion of alcohol in the stomach. Soaking your feet for an hour or two after drinking will slow down intracranial pressure and be beneficial to your health.
People with diabetes should pay more attention to the water temperature. People with diabetes generally have cold limbs, so soaking their feet will be very comfortable. However, diabetics can't correctly perceive the water temperature, which is easy to burn. Be sure to pay more attention to the water temperature!
Old people should not soak their feet for too long, which will cause night sweats and palpitations, so old people must not soak their feet for too long.