Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cold starts from the feet". Soaking your feet in hot water can stimulate the acupuncture points on the soles of the feet, warming the kidneys and improving the body's ability to resist the cold. It is necessary to soak your feet in winter. What are the precautions for foot soaking?
【Benefits of Foot Soaking in Winter】
1. Removing coldness
There is a saying that if your feet are not cold, your body will not be cold. It is often the case that coldness starts from the feet. Soaking your feet in hot water is a good choice to get rid of the coldness.
Invasion of coldness can lead to various illnesses, especially colds, flu, and headaches. Soaking your feet can alleviate these problems.
2. Promoting health and aiding sleep
People with poor sleep quality can try soaking their feet at night. There are many acupuncture points on the feet. Soaking your feet before bed can relax the body and relax the nerve cells, greatly improving the quality of sleep.
3. Strengthening the body
Long-term foot soaking can help enhance the body's resistance and improve physical fitness. It can also nourish qi and blood and delay aging. If you soak your feet every day, the effect will definitely be better than taking supplements.
【Requirements for Foot Soaking Basin】
1. The material should be harmless, safe, and have good insulation.
2. The height of the foot soaking basin should generally be more than 20 centimeters (not above the ankle joint).
3. You can buy some computerized foot bath devices.
Therefore, choosing a correct foot soaking basin can often achieve twice the result with half the effort. The existing foot soaking basins have complex structures and high costs. Adding Chinese herbal foot soaking powder can achieve the purpose of health care and treatment.
The correct choice is to buy a deeper wooden bucket that can fit the entire lower leg. Why choose a wooden bucket? Firstly, it is easier to maintain heat, and secondly, it is closer to nature.
【Precautions for Foot Soaking】
1. The soaking time should not be too long, preferably 15-30 minutes. When soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, which may lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain. If patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or the elderly feel chest tightness or dizziness, they should temporarily stop foot soaking and rest. Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensation, so family members should test the water temperature first to prevent scalding.
2. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal. It will affect the blood supply to the stomach and may lead to malnutrition in the long run. After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive system. If you immediately soak your feet in hot water after a meal, the blood that should have flowed to the digestive system will instead flow to the lower limbs, which may affect digestion and absorption and result in nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, it is best to wait for half an hour after a meal before soaking your feet.
3. It is best to use a wooden basin for herbal foot soaking. The chemical composition of metal basins such as copper basins is unstable and may react with tannic acid in Chinese herbal medicine, producing harmful substances such as tannic acid iron, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of the medicine.
4. Children should not soak their feet in overly hot water for a long time. The arch of the foot is formed from childhood, so it is important to protect it from an early age. If hot water is used frequently to wash a child's feet, the ligaments on the soles of the feet will become loose, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch and may lead to flat feet.
