What is the principle of lowering blood pressure by washing feet with baking soda?

In daily life, baking soda is not unfamiliar to many people. Baking soda is a chemical substance that contains certain alkalinity and carbonic acid. It can be used to make food and also to make beverages. Regular consumption of baking soda has certain benefits to the body and can balance the acid and alkaline components in the body. However, using baking soda to wash your feet has no effect on lowering blood pressure and has no correct scientific basis.

What is the principle of baking soda foot bath to lower blood pressure?

Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, which has no blood pressure lowering effect. Some people use baking soda to soak their feet, but this also has no scientific basis. However, even if you don’t add baking soda to your foot bath, it can help improve microcirculation and is also good for high blood pressure.

In addition, while taking medication for hypertension, you should also pay attention to your lifestyle.

Hypertensive patients should eat "three mores and three lesses", i.e. more vitamins, more inorganic salts, more fiber, less salt, less fat, and less calories. They should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and less animal offal such as liver, heart, and kidney. They should refrain from smoking and drinking. Long-term drinking can increase the levels of catecholamines and corticosteroids and induce hypertension. Obese patients should restrict their diet to prevent overweight.

Blood pressure reduction method

1. There are many ways to lower blood pressure, and there are also many ways to lower blood pressure in daily life. First of all, patients with hypertension must maintain good eating habits. If they do a good job of conditioning and care in their diet, it will have a good blood pressure lowering effect. First of all, patients should often eat foods that have blood pressure lowering effects, such as: celery juice, pomegranate juice, etc., and avoid eating greasy and high-cholesterol foods, and do not smoke or drink. Try not to eat some irritating foods to avoid negative effects. In addition, you should also strengthen exercise in daily life. You must develop the habit of exercising regularly and doing some aerobic exercise. Exercise therapy plus diet therapy will have a good blood pressure lowering effect and will have a good effect on keeping blood pressure stable.

2. Patients can also massage the acupoints on the head frequently. They can use the dry face washing method for massage. Generally, rub your hands first, then wipe from the forehead to the temporal part along the front of the ear to the lower jaw. Repeat this 20 to 30 times. It will have a good blood pressure lowering effect. You can also comb your hair with your hands, which will also help lower blood pressure. In addition, hypertensive patients can also drink some summer cypress antihypertensive tea in their daily lives. The required ingredients include: summer cypress, wolfberry. It needs to be brewed with hot water and drunk. It will have the effects of clearing heat, nourishing yin, benefiting the kidneys and lowering blood pressure. It will not have any harm to the patients.

Finally, patients with hypertension must learn the above methods that can achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure in daily life, and use these methods frequently for conditioning. The symptoms of hypertension in patients will be greatly improved, and the patient's condition will not become more and more serious. Patients should also maintain a good attitude and it is important to be in a good mood.