Modern people often sit at work, are lazy in exercising, and generally have poor foot circulation. Therefore, if you use warm water to act on your feet, the blood circulation in your feet will become better, your body will become healthier, and you can avoid the onset of many diseases. For example, many people will get cold limbs, colds and coughs, chapped limbs, etc. in winter. If we develop the habit of foot soaking in autumn, it will help avoid these "minor illnesses". It is recommended that men soak their feet in salt water.

What are the benefits of soaking your feet in salt water?

Advantages: Kidney-tonifying and anti-aging

Soak your feet in salt water to promote blood circulation and allow the active ingredients of the salt water to enter the kidneys and heart, thereby achieving the effect of kidney-tonifying. Secondly, soaking your feet in salt water can remove cold feet. At the same time, if you participate in pebble foot grinding, it can improve the effect, promote the penetration of human blood vessels, help sleep and anti-aging, treat colds, and even strengthen memory and relax the brain.

Advantages: In addition to treating athlete’s foot, it can also wash your feet.

Because of the disinfection and sterilization effect of salt, salt water has a good disinfection and sterilization effect. You can wash your feet by soaking them in salt water. Soaking your feet in salt water can remove dead skin. Because salt has an exfoliating effect, you can use the heat of hot water to enhance the exfoliating effect by adding salt to the hot water and stop soaking your feet.

Advantages: Reduces fire and strengthens the body.

Salt has the effects of clearing fire, cooling blood, and detoxifying. People who get angry easily and have extremely hot constitution can try this method.

Although there are many benefits to soaking your feet in salt water, there are also certain considerations. Let’s take a look at what it means!

Note 1: Don’t soak your feet for too long.

Soak your feet for 15-30 minutes, not too long. When you soak your feet, your heart rate is faster than usual due to accelerated blood circulation in your feet. So it is assumed that prolonged immersion will increase the burden on the heart. Simple attacks of some complications, such as dizziness and syncope.

Note 2: People with wounds or air bubbles on their feet should not soak their feet.

It is not good to assume that if there is trauma, there will be trauma infection, which will then cause traumatic pain. We should wait for the wound to heal before soaking.

Note 3: Do not soak your feet when you are too full or hungry.

Soaking your feet when you are full, hungry or eating will speed up blood circulation throughout the body and can easily cause dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, as it will affect the blood supply to the stomach.

Although there are many benefits of soaking your feet in salt water, you cannot soak your feet frequently. Just soak your feet a few times occasionally. After soaking your feet, it is suitable to do a few minutes of foot massage, which is very good for the body's blood circulation and can further regulate the internal organs. After soaking your feet, it is recommended that you stop other activities and take a nap every few minutes, which will have a better kidney-tonifying effect.