Insist on soaking feet with hot water every day, is it to preserve health or "shorten life"
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The benefits of soaking feet
There has always been a saying among the people that "it is better to eat food than to wash your feet with hot water", which means that sticking to soaking your feet with hot water is even more harmful to your health than taking medicine directly. Insisting on soaking feet with hot water has many benefits to the body, which are shown in the following aspects:
(1) dispel cold and keep warm
In the hot weather in summer, many people have the bad habit of eating cold drinks. Eating too much cold food for a long time will lead to the increase of moisture and coldness in the body, which will also increase the burden on the body over time and make people feel tired and weak.
Insisting on soaking feet with hot water can achieve the effect of dispelling cold and keeping warm, timely discharging excess cold and moisture in the body, enhancing the body's resistance and reducing the risk of illness.
(2) Relieve physical fatigue
Insisting on soaking feet can promote blood circulation, enhance the body's metabolic ability, make all the nerves and tissues of the body in a state of extreme relaxation, and relieve the body's fatigue.
With the accelerated pace of life, people's pressure is increasing. Many people will feel backache. Frequent low back pain is not good for health, and it will also lead to poor physical fitness. Insisting on soaking feet can effectively relieve the fatigue of the body and reduce the damage to various organs.
(3) Beauty
Insisting on soaking feet with hot water can stimulate the acupoints on the soles of the feet, promote the blood flow of the whole body, and excrete excess impurities and sediments in the body in time to prevent blood vessel blockage and thrombosis.
Insist on soaking feet, but also clean up impurities accumulated under the skin in time, reduce the deposition of melanin, and have the effect of beauty beauty and delaying aging.
(4) enhance physical fitness
Compared with people who don't soak their feet often, people who insist on soaking their feet are obviously stronger. Soaking feet can improve immunity and is a 1 line of defense against bacterial and viral invasion. Improving immunity can reduce the risk of illness and make the body stronger.
(5) improve sleep quality
The foot is also called the second heart of the human body, and there are many acupoints on the foot. Insisting on soaking feet can reduce the burden of various organs of the body and improve the ability of detoxification. While soaking feet, massaging the acupoints on the soles of the feet can also improve physical fatigue and stimulate the cerebral cortex to relax.
Sticking to soaking feet can improve the quality of sleep and improve the problem of insomnia and dreaminess. If you sleep well, your body will be healthier and keep the efficiency of work and study the next day better.
(6) Relieve pain
Insisting on soaking feet with hot water can also relieve physical pain, whether it is limb pain or headache and brain fever. Insisting on soaking feet with hot water can effectively improve physical fatigue, promote local blood circulation and alleviate limb ischemia and hypoxia.
(7) Stabilize blood pressure
Hypertension has become a chronic disease with high incidence, mostly in middle-aged and elderly people. Once hypertension is diagnosed, long-term medication is needed to stabilize the growth of blood pressure. If you want to stay away from this kind of disease, you may wish to develop a good habit of soaking your feet before going to bed. Soaking feet can accelerate blood circulation, relieve the pressure of blood on blood vessels and stabilize blood pressure.
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The disadvantages of soaking feet
The disadvantage of soaking feet is that the water temperature is not suitable, or the patients who soak feet have heart disease or other serious diseases.
(1) Diabetic patients are not suitable for foot bathing.
The reason why diabetic patients are not suitable for foot soaking is that if the temperature of foot soaking is not controlled for a while, it is easy to burn, and foot injury is fatal to diabetic patients. Just because of a small blister, it will lead to foot infection and ulcer, and eventually face the risk of amputation.
(2) You can't soak your feet immediately after eating.
Patients who have just finished eating are not suitable for soaking their feet immediately. After a meal, the local blood circulation will be accelerated, which will affect the normal digestion and peristalsis of the stomach, and will increase the risk of gastrointestinal diseases over time.
(3) Patients with tinea pedis should not soak their feet.
Patients with tinea pedis are not suitable for soaking their feet, because tinea pedis is a fungal infection. Hot water will lead to the vasodilation of the foot membrane, increase the probability of infection, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. In severe cases, it will also lead to tearing pain in the wound, which will bring a very painful experience to patients.
(4) Pay attention to the temperature of foot bath water.
The biggest disadvantage of soaking feet is that the soaking temperature is not suitable, which leads to local skin burns and then induces bacterial infection.