Many people have the habit of soaking their feet in hot water, which will bring many health benefits, but you also need to master the method of foot soaking. If the method is improper, it may have adverse effects on your health. What are the advantages and disadvantages of hot water foot bath? What are the advantages and disadvantages of soaking your feet in hot water? The following is a detailed description of the impact of hot water foot bathing on the human body, as well as the diseases that need to be paid attention to.
1. Dispel cold and warm up the body
In summer, people often stay in air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold drinks, so there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body. Regularly soaking your feet in hot water can dispel cold and dampness, and prevent rheumatoid arthritis and joint pain caused by cold and dampness. The weather is cold in winter, and people with weak constitutions are prone to cold hands and feet. Soaking your feet in hot water before going to bed at night can increase the body temperature and achieve the effect of warming up and driving away the cold.
2. Beauty and beauty
Soaking your feet in hot water can nourish the internal organs with Qi and blood, speed up metabolism, accelerate the discharge of toxins in the body, make the skin rosy, and improve the skin. Rough and other conditions, it has the effect of beautifying and nourishing the skin.
3. Activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Frequently soaking your feet in hot water can stimulate the meridians of the feet, promote the coordination of organ functions, discharge waste accumulated in the body, and make the body Qi and blood flow more smoothly. In addition, people who stand frequently are prone to varicose veins in the lower limbs. Soaking your feet in hot water can speed up the blood circulation in the legs and allow the venous blood in the legs to return in time, which is beneficial to reducing venous congestion in the legs and preventing varicose veins.
4. Regulate the internal organs
Each organ of the human body has corresponding reflex zones in the feet. Regularly soaking the feet in hot water can stimulate the reflex zones and meridians of the feet, causing It can regulate and improve organ functions and coordinate the internal organs. 7-9 pm is the time when the kidney meridian qi and blood are at their weakest. Footbath at this time has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and replenishing qi.
5. Help the brain
The center of the foot is connected to the brain through meridians. Regularly soaking your feet in hot water can stimulate the feet, especially the soles of the feet, improve brain function, and have the effect of refreshing, strengthening the brain and improving intelligence.
6. Strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach
When you don’t want to eat, soak your feet in hot water with corresponding prescriptions, and properly massage the acupuncture points of the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, and stomach and ten Reflective areas such as the duodenum, small intestine, and large intestine can increase appetite and promote digestion. At the same time, it has a relieving effect on constipation, rough skin, acne, etc. caused by dysfunction of the spleen and stomach.
7. Soothe the liver and relieve stagnation
Frequently soaking your feet in hot water can relax your nerves, ease and release stress, and avoid stagnation of liver qi. At the same time, foot bath can also stimulate the liver meridian and reflex areas such as the brain, cerebellum, brain stem, and parathyroid glands, which can relieve insomnia, depression, neurasthenia and other discomforts caused by liver qi stagnation.
8. Disadvantages of foot soaking in hot water
1. When patients with thrombosis use hot water to soak their feet, the arteries of the lower limbs will expand, and more blood will enter the lower limbs, but the venous return capacity will not increase. , thus causing patients with originally poor backflow or blocked veins to aggravate blood stasis, which is detrimental to recovery.
2. Patients with arterial occlusion who soak their feet in hot water will steal blood from ischemic tissues and aggravate ischemia.
3. The sensory feedback mechanism of diabetic foot patients on pain and water temperature fails. Excessively high water temperature when soaking feet can cause burns.
4. Soaking children's feet during their developmental period will cause the ligaments on the soles of the feet to become loose, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch of the foot. If things go on like this, flat feet may develop.
9. Foot soaking method
(1) Foot soaking with mugwort leaves
Take 50-100 grams of dried mugwort leaves (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict standard) First, boil water and then add cold water or wait until the temperature is lowered before soaking your feet. If you find it troublesome, soak the mugwort leaves in some hot water for 20 minutes and then add water to soak your 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, pain relief with hot compresses, and coldness of the hands and feet. The principle of warming the meridians and dispersing cold is needed to relieve pain, because there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that the kidney governs the whole body. "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 salt water to induce menstruation. For example, 15 grams each of cinnamon, clove, black medicine, angelica, and Chuanxiong can be used, dried ginger, Cumin and Evodia 6 grams each, add a little salt, boil in water and soak your feet.
3. Qi deficiency and blood deficiency type
The symptoms include dull pain in the lower abdomen during menstruation or after menstruation, slight pain when pressing the abdomen with hands, low menstrual flow, and discoloration. If it is weak, it needs to nourish qi and blood to regulate menstruation. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is called "the spleen governs the blood." The medicines chosen for foot soaking should mostly be based on medicines that enter the spleen meridian of the foot Taiyin, and add an appropriate amount of menstrual inducing medicine sweet water. For example, you can use white peony root, angelica root, Chuanxiong rhizome, rehmannia root, Atractylodes rhizome, 15 grams each of Eucommia ulmoides and Astragalus membranaceus, appropriate amount of caramel, boiled water and soaked for feet.