Running hot water feet is a very healthy lifestyle habit in life, but running hot water feet also requires mastering the method. The correct way to soak your feet can bring benefits to your health. So soaking your feet in hot water is good for your health. What are the benefits? How to soak your feet in hot water to be more beneficial to your health? Let’s learn more about the benefits of running hot water and what you need to pay attention to.
1. Benefits of soaking feet in hot water
1. Preventing colds
Soaking feet in hot water can prevent colds. If you have a slight cold, drink boiled water and soak your feet in hot water to make your body sweat. The cold will be cured quickly.
2. Stimulate the acupoints on the feet
From a medical theory, there are reflex zones and acupoints on the feet of various organs of the human body, as well as meridians. Many people have had foot massages. When a masseur puts pressure on our feet, we will feel pain, soreness and swelling. This situation basically indicates that there is a problem with our corresponding organs in the reflex area.
So, when we finish the foot massage, we will feel relaxed all over. At the same time, there are 6 main meridians on the human feet, including the ending points of the three yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, and gallbladder meridian) and the starting points of the three yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian, and kidney meridian). On the feet, therefore, soaking your feet in hot water also stimulates these six main meridians.
3. Accelerate the elimination of cold
It has a very good auxiliary effect in the treatment of many diseases. People often say that "rich people take tonics, while poor people soak their feet." This shows that foot soaking with traditional Chinese medicine has a great effect. Especially in modern society, with the extensive use of air conditioners and the fact that people generally like to eat cold food, there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body. Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine can accelerate the elimination of cold from the body.
4. Relieve tired feet
If you have just walked a long way and your feet feel particularly tired, it is recommended that you soak your feet in hot water as soon as you go back, which can quickly relieve fatigue. .
5. Weight loss effect
Frequently soaking your feet in hot water can promote blood circulation and accelerate the decomposition of fat, which is helpful for weight loss.
6. Detoxification
The feet have been at the bottom of the human body for a long time. They are squeezed by wearing shoes every day and are most likely to be attacked by cold air. The blood circulation in the feet is not very sufficient. Foot soaking helps blood circulation, takes away waste from the human body, supplies nutrients to the feet, and treats diseases through nerve stimulation.
7. Promote blood circulation
Feet have been said to be the second heart of the human body since ancient times. From the perspective of health theory, the feet are the farthest from the heart of the human body and carry the heaviest burden. Therefore, this place is most likely to cause poor blood circulation. Medical classics record: "A person has feet, just like a tree has roots. A tree has dead roots." People get tired first and their feet deteriorate first. "Especially for those who often feel cold hands and feet, soaking their feet in hot water is an excellent way.
8. Reduce the trouble of insomnia
If you often have poor sleep and lack of energy in daily life, soaking your feet in hot water before going to bed can help improve the quality of sleep and allow you to sleep peacefully.
2. Precautions for hot water foot bathing
1. Choose the right foot bathing container
Since it is a foot bath, it must reflect a "bubble" Words come. "Soaking" here means that there needs to be more water, enough heat, and a long time. You can't just take a basin and put some water in it. That won't have any health-preserving effect. At most, it's just foot washing, not foot soaking.
2. How to confirm the effect of foot soaking
What is considered a good foot soak? That is, it is considered good when your back feels a little damp or your forehead sweats. . Be careful not to sweat profusely. Because sweat is the liquid of the heart. Sweating too much can make you sad. As long as you sweat slightly, it means your meridians are connected up and down. This is also a way to prove whether your meridians are open.
3. Foot soaking time
Foot soaking is usually done at night. Generally speaking, it is appropriate to soak your feet at 9 o'clock in the evening. It is the best time to replenish kidney qi.
4. The temperature of the foot bath water
The water for the foot bath should be hot, but not too hot. The water should be hot enough but not scalding, about 45 degrees Celsius. Add 2 tablespoons of salt to warm water. Salt has anti-inflammatory, sterilizing, and bowel-clearing effects.
5. It is not advisable to soak your feet half an hour after a meal
After eating, most of the blood in the human body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet in hot water immediately after a meal, you should The blood flowing to the digestive system instead flows to the lower limbs, which will affect digestion and absorption over time and lead to nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, it is best to wash your feet one hour after eating.
6. The foot soaking time should not be too long
15 to 30 minutes is appropriate. During the foot soaking process, due to the accelerated blood circulation of the human body, the heart rate is also faster than usual. If the time is too long, it is easy to increase the burden on the heart.
In addition, since more blood will flow to the lower limbs, people with weak constitutions are likely to feel dizzy due to insufficient blood supply to the brain. In severe cases, they may even faint. People with heart disease and the elderly should pay special attention. If they feel dizzy and have chest tightness, they should stop soaking their feet immediately and lie down to rest.
There are many benefits of soaking your feet in hot water. If you are usually very busy, tired and don’t have time to exercise, you can often soak your feet. It is a very good way to maintain health. At the same time, I would like to remind everyone that foot soaking must be done in a correct and reasonable way to achieve better results.
3. The correct way to soak feet
(1) Soak feet with mugwort leaves
Take 50-100 grams of dried mugwort leaves (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict Standard), first boil the water and then add cold water or wait until the temperature is lowered before soaking the feet. If it is troublesome, soak the mugwort leaves in some hot water for 20 minutes and then add water to soak the feet.
A few small prescriptions for foot soaking with moxa leaves:
(1) Mugwort plus ginger can treat colds, joint diseases, rheumatoid, coughs, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
(2) Mugwort and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness or blood stasis in hands and feet.
(3) Mugwort plus salt is suitable for those with fire in the upper burner, often red eyes, toothache, sore throat, irritability, upper fire and cold, and swelling of the legs and feet.
(4) Add 20 capsules of mugwort and Sichuan peppercorns, suitable for foot sweat, foot odor, athlete's foot, and warm rash.
(2) Vinegar foot soak
Choice of vinegar: (100-150 grams of rice vinegar or mature vinegar)
The effects of vinegar foot soak:
(1) It can solve the problem of foot odor. Soaking feet in vinegar can kill bacteria and treat athlete's foot to a certain extent.
(2) It can relieve fatigue.
(3) It can moisturize the skin, soften cutin and increase skin elasticity.
(4) It can remove rheumatism and improve symptoms of fear of cold.
(5) Treatment of sleep disorders.
(6) Vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of the feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood waste and disease sediment, and cure many chronic diseases.
(3) Almond tea foot soak
Bitter almond 45g, green tea 10g. Put the medicine together into the pot, add 2000 ml of water, boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and extract the juice. Take 1 small bottle of the liquid and apply it on the face and arms. Pour the remaining liquid into the basin and soak for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 20 days constitute a course of treatment. It can moisturize the skin, reduce inflammation and sterilize, supplement vitamins and minerals, and prevent and treat chlorosis, darkening, roughness, acne, and scabies.
(4) Traditional Chinese Medicine Foot Soaking
For women who are troubled by dysmenorrhea, you can try to insist on traditional Chinese medicine foot soaking to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea.
1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
The symptoms include abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, and dark menstrual blood with blood clots. For people with such symptoms, Qi and blood should be reconciled, blood stasis should be reduced, and pain relief should be relieved. Because women are liver-centered, the drugs chosen for foot soaking are mostly drugs that enter the liver meridian of foot Jueyin, and an appropriate amount of menstrual inducing medicinal vinegar is added, such as 30 grams each of Qingpi, Wuyao, and Motherwort, Ligusticum chuanxiong, and Rhizoma chrysanthemum. 10 grams each of the flowers. Add about two liters of water and about 50 ml of vinegar, bring to a boil over high heat, and then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. When the medicine cools to 50°C, pour the residue into a basin to soak your feet. The ankle joint should be immersed. If the amount of medicine is insufficient, an appropriate amount of warm water can be added. Keep moving the feet in the medicine to allow the soles of the feet to receive slight physical stimulation from the medicine residue for more than 30 minutes each time. .Yang deficiency and cold excess type
The symptoms include cold pain in the lower abdomen, which is relieved by hot compress, and cold hands and feet.
It is necessary to use the principle of warming the meridians and dispersing cold to relieve pain. Because there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: "The kidney governs the body's yang", the medicines chosen for foot soaking should mostly be based on medicines that enter the kidney meridian of foot Shaoyin, and add an appropriate amount of salty water that induces menstruation, such as cinnamon, clove, and black medicine. 15 grams each of Angelica sinensis, Angelica sinensis, and Chuanxiong rhizome, 6 grams each of dried ginger, cumin, and Evodia rhizome, with a little salt, boiled in water and soaked in water.
3. Qi deficiency and blood deficiency type
The symptoms. If you have a dull pain in your lower abdomen during menstruation or after menstruation, you may also feel slight pain when you press your abdomen with your hands. The amount of menstrual flow is light and the color of your menstrual period is light. In traditional Chinese medicine, you need to nourish qi and blood to regulate menstruation, which is called "the spleen regulates blood." The medicine you choose for foot soaking is this. Mainly drugs that enter the spleen meridian of Foot Taiyin should be used, and an appropriate amount of menstrual inducing drugs should be added to the sweet water. For example, you can use 15 grams each of white peony root, angelica root, Chuanxiong root, rehmannia root, Atractylodes macrocephala, Eucommia ulmoides, and astragalus root, and an appropriate amount of maltose, boiled water to soak the feet.