Many people like to soak feet. It's very comfortable to soak for a few minutes before going to bed at night. What are the benefits of soaking feet? Although it seems easy to soak feet, it is actually good for your health. If you don't use the right method when you soak your feet, it may have a certain impact on your health.
The benefits of frequent foot bathing
1. Eliminate fatigue
Feet can quickly eliminate fatigue, because when we soak our bodies will feel very warm, blood circulation will be accelerated, muscles will be relaxed. Especially for those who need to stand for a long time to work or walk a lot of roads that day, foot bathing is a very comfortable thing, and many people will fall asleep when they soak their feet.
2. Improve sleep
Foot soaking also has a good effect on improving sleep, because it can make the toxins in the body excrete faster and relieve the uneasy mood. Some people always think a lot of things before going to bed, leading to difficulty in falling asleep. If you belong to this situation, then we suggest you try to soak your feet, maybe the effect will be very good.
3. Promote metabolism
Foot soaking is also good for improving metabolism. If a person's metabolic capacity is poor, then endocrine function will be affected, resulting in various symptoms of discomfort. When we soak our feet, the temperature of the water will constantly stimulate us and speed up our metabolism. If the metabolism is slow at ordinary times, we can soak our feet every day.
4. Adjust blood pressure
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the five viscera and six Fu organs of the human body have corresponding projections on the foot. The foot is the starting point of the foot three yin meridian and the foot bath ending point of the foot three Yang Meridian. There are more than 60 acupoints below the ankle joint.
The use of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of hypertension can effectively prevent the toxic and side effects of drugs, and the effect is good. Because hypertension patients need to take medicine for a long time, to reduce the hormone stimulation of drugs on the human body, the external use of Chinese medicine method is generally better.
5. Improve blood circulation
Foot bath can improve the blood circulation of the foot. The warm effect of water can expand the blood vessels of the foot and increase the skin temperature, thus promoting the blood circulation of the foot and the whole body. Some people have done a test, a healthy person with 40 ℃ - 45 ℃ warm water immersion feet for 30-40 minutes, the whole body blood flow increased 10-13 times for women.
6. Relieve headache
This is because the blood vessels of both feet are dilated, and the blood flows from the head to the feet, which can reduce the cerebral congestion and relieve the headache. For the headache caused by cold and fever, hot water soaking feet can also help to reduce fever.
7. Alleviating occupational diseases
Adhere to scientific foot therapy, especially for the alleviation of modern urban population prone to various occupational diseases, often can receive twice the result with half the effort. For example, rheumatism, spleen and stomach disease, insomnia, headache, cold and other systemic diseases, paraplegia, brain trauma, stroke, lumbar disc herniation, kidney disease, diabetes and other serious diseases, rehabilitation treatment after serious diseases and so on.
8. Prevent respiratory tract inflammation
Washing feet with hot water can reflexively cause capillary dilation in the mucous membrane of respiratory tract, accelerate blood circulation, and accelerate the movement of cilia on the surface of mucous membrane, so as to enhance the disease resistance of respiratory tract and help to prevent and control respiratory tract inflammation.
Taboo of foot bathing
1. The duration is 15-20 minutes
The soaking time should not be too long, and 15-2030 minutes is suitable. When you soak your feet, the blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, if the elderly feel chest tightness, dizziness, should temporarily stop feet, rest. Diabetic patients with poor peripheral sensory ability, should first try the water temperature, to prevent scalding.
2. The water temperature is between 40 ℃ and 50 ℃
The water temperature should not be too high. Many people think that the higher the water temperature is, the better the water temperature is as long as they can bear it. In fact, it is not. The best water temperature for feet is below 50 ℃. It is required to be hot but not hot. Do not measure the water temperature with your hands, but feel it with your feet. If the water temperature is too high, the blood vessels on the feet are easy to expand excessively, and the blood in the body flows more to the lower limbs. On the contrary, it is easy to cause insufficient blood supply to the heart, brain, kidney and other important organs, which is unfavorable to the body.
3. The amount of water should not be too small
It's good to use a deep wooden bucket or enamel basin with a large area at the bottom, so that the feet can be comfortably placed in it, and the water can be soaked into the lower leg.
4. Don't be half hearted when you soak your feet
Don't read books or watch TV when you soak your feet. It's easy to achieve the effect of "igniting fire and returning to the yuan".
5. Pay attention to the sanitation and cleanness of the barrel
If the foot bucket is not clean thoroughly or there is no antibacterial treatment in the barrel wall, bacteria on the feet will easily remain in the barrel wall, causing repeated infection on the feet. Therefore, it is very important to choose a good foot bucket.
6. Don't use Chinese medicine to soak feet in menstrual period
Women's menstrual problems are more complex, if you can't identify the cause, use Chinese medicine to soak feet, not only will not play a soothing role, but also may aggravate dysmenorrhea and other symptoms. Therefore, if women want to use traditional Chinese medicine to soak their feet to achieve the purpose of treating dysmenorrhea and other health problems during menstrual period, they can consult doctors and use drugs according to their own conditions.
7. Don't soak your feet in half an hour after meals
It can affect the supply of blood to the stomach, and in the long run it can make people malnourished. After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet with hot water immediately after eating, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs, which will affect digestion and absorption and lead to nutritional deficiency. Therefore, soak your feet half an hour after a good meal.
8. Don't go to bed immediately after soaking your feet
You can't go to bed immediately after you soak your feet. Knead the soles of feet when the feet are hot, put on socks to keep warm in time, and sleep again after the body heat slowly decreases.
Conclusion: there are a lot of benefits of foot soaking. After reading the article, you should be clear about it. However, there are many taboos about foot bathing. If you like to soak feet, these taboos should not be forgotten. For example, don't soak your feet when you have just had a meal to avoid indigestion. The time to soak feet should not be too long, and the water temperature should not be too high. These are very important.
