The benefits and disadvantages of hot water foot bath

Soaking feet with hot water is one of the ways of health care for many people, whether it is a hot summer or cold winter, or even spring and autumn, soaking feet also has many benefits. So let's see what are the benefits and disadvantages of hot water foot soaking.

Benefits: get rid of cold and warm body

Summer people often stay in air-conditioned rooms, and like to eat cold drinks, so the body more cold damp. Regular foot soak with hot water, can dispel cold and damp, prevent rheumatic arthritis caused by cold and damp, joint pain and other diseases. The winter weather is cold, weak people are prone to cold hands and feet, night before bed with hot water foot soak can improve the body temperature, to warm the body to drive away the effect of cold.

Beauty and skin care

Soaking feet with hot water can make the internal organs get nourished, but also accelerate the metabolism, accelerate the discharge of toxins in the body, make the skin rosy, improve skin roughness and other conditions, play a beauty effect.

Promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis

Regularly soak your feet with hot water, you can make the meridians of the feet are stimulated, promote the coordination of internal organs function, discharge the waste accumulated in the body, so that the body's qi and blood run more smoothly. In addition, people who often stand are prone to varicose veins in the lower limbs, soaking feet with hot water can speed up the blood circulation in the legs, so that the leg veins blood flow back in a timely manner, which is conducive to reducing the leg veins stasis and prevent varicose veins.

Nourish the internal organs

Each organ of the human body has a corresponding reflex zone in the foot, often with hot water soaking feet, can stimulate the reflex zones and meridians of the foot, play a role in regulating and improving the function of organs and coordinating the internal organs. 7-9 p.m., is the weakest kidney meridian qi and blood, soaking feet at this time has the effect of tonifying the kidneys and benefiting the qi.

Benefit the brain

The heart of the foot is connected to the brain through the meridians. Regularly soak feet with hot water, can stimulate the foot, especially the heart of the foot area, can improve brain function, to refresh the brain, brain puzzle effect.

Strengthen the spleen and stomach

When you don't think about eating, soak your feet with hot water, with the corresponding remedies, and correctly massage the spleen meridian, stomach meridian points and reflex zones of the stomach, duodenum, small intestine, large intestine, etc., can improve appetite and promote digestion. It also has a relieving effect on constipation, skin roughness, acne, etc. caused by the loss of health of the spleen and stomach transportation.

Relieves liver and depression

Regular foot baths with hot water can relax nerves, ease and release stress, and avoid depression of liver qi. The foot bath also stimulates the liver meridian and reflex zones of the brain, cerebellum and brainstem, and parathyroid glands, which can relieve insomnia, depression, neurasthenia and other discomforts caused by liver qi stagnation.

The bad effects of hot water foot bath

1, thrombosis patients with hot water foot bath will make the lower extremity arteries expand, more blood into the lower extremity, while the venous reflux capacity did not increase, which led to poor reflux or blocked veins patients will aggravate blood stagnation, unfavorable recovery. 2, arterial occlusion patients with hot water foot soak will make ischemic tissue theft phenomenon, aggravating ischemia. 3, diabetic foot patients on pain, water temperature sensory feedback mechanism failure, soaking feet when the water temperature is too high will lead to burns. 4, children's foot soaking during development will cause the ligaments on the bottom of the foot to become relaxed, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch, and in the long run may form flat feet.