The benefits of tea and salt foot bath

Soaking your feet in water with tea leaves and salt has a very good health-care effect, especially in winter. It can relieve fatigue, drive away the cold and keep warm. It is also quite effective in preventing and treating winter colds. In addition, because salt is added, it can also relieve athlete's foot and have anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects. Let's take a look at the effects of soaking your feet with tea leaves and salt.

1. Relieve athlete's foot

Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, which has a strong bactericidal effect. In addition, tea itself has good astringent and odor-absorbing effects, so soaking feet in tea is particularly effective in killing the fungi that cause athlete's foot. People who suffer from athlete's foot can boil tea leaves into a concentrated juice to wash their feet every night. Persistent foot soaking will be very effective in relieving athlete's foot. Note that green tea is the best choice for foot soaking. Adding some salt when soaking your feet can also help remove foot odor.

2. Soak your feet to dispel cold and dampness

The caffeine, tea polyphenols and other substances contained in black tea can help remove dampness. In autumn and winter, soaking your feet with black tea and a little ginger powder can better remove cold and dampness from the body and effectively relieve pain in the back, shoulders, neck and limbs.

3. Prevent and treat colds

Soaking your feet in tea can also relieve exterior symptoms, induce sweating, warm the meridians, and improve blood circulation, thereby enhancing the body's immunity and effectively preventing and treating colds.

4. Soothe the nerves and help sleep

After Pu'er tea is fermented, the content of tea alkaloids and tea polyphenols is greatly reduced, which can have a calming effect and inhibit the activity of the cerebral cortex. Soaking your feet in water boiled with Pu'er tea can better stimulate the nerves in the plants of the feet, reach the heart and brain through the meridians, and effectively promote sleep.

5. Eliminate fatigue

Soaking your feet in tea water can relieve pressure on peripheral nerves. The water temperature can also promote blood circulation, stimulate the meridians, acupoints, and reflex areas of the feet, thereby relaxing tense muscles and effectively eliminating fatigue.