What are the benefits of soaking feet in salt water?
1, tonifying kidney and resisting aging
Soaking feet with salt water can promote blood circulation and make the effective components of salt water enter the kidney and heart, thus achieving the effect of tonifying kidney. Secondly, soaking feet with salt water can remove the cold of feet. At the same time, if pebbles are added to grind feet, it can improve the effect, promote the connection of human blood vessels, help sleep and anti-aging, treat colds, and even enhance memory and make the mind feel relaxed.
2, in addition to athlete's foot, because of the antiviral and bactericidal effects of salt, you should wash your feet.
Therefore, salt water has a good disinfection and sterilization effect, and feet can be cleaned by soaking them in salt water. Soaking feet with salt water can exfoliate. Because salt has the function of exfoliation, you can use the heat in hot water to enhance the exfoliation effect by soaking your feet in hot water with salt.
3. Reduce fires and enhance physical fitness.
Salt has the effects of clearing fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. People who are prone to get angry and have a hot constitution can try this method.
What are the taboos for soaking feet?
1 to avoid overheating.
Soaking feet is to warm feet quickly through the water temperature, but the water temperature must not be too high, because too high a water temperature will burn the skin of feet, which will be red in light and blistering in heavy cases. We often see that the skin is scalded because the water temperature is too hot. If you are a diabetic, you should pay more attention to the temperature of water, because they are insensitive to temperature and are more likely to be scalded.
You shouldn't soak your feet when you are too full or hungry.
Because soaking feet will accelerate the blood circulation of the whole body, if it is too full, it will affect the digestion of the stomach, and if it is hungry, it will lead to dizziness and other symptoms.
3, heart disease patients and patients with hypotension beware of syncope.
Such patients should be extra careful when soaking their feet. First, the water temperature should not be too high, and second, the soaking time should not be too long, because after soaking feet with hot water, the blood vessels of the human body will expand rapidly, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will easily lead to ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as the heart and brain, so it will increase the risk of illness for people with heart disease and hypotension.
People with beriberi should not soak their feet with hot water.
Because beriberi is a fungal infection, it is easy to aggravate the infection with hot water bubbles, and friends with inflammation and diseases in their feet are not suitable for soaking their feet with hot water.