What are the benefits of soaking your feet in ginger water?

As we all know, there are many acupoints on the soles of the feet. These acupoints are connected to all parts of the body, so there is such a thing as foot massage. By massaging the soles of the feet, it can treat diseases and prevent many diseases. The same principle applies to people soaking their feet, because soaking the feet can stimulate the acupoints on the soles of the feet. In the future, you can use ginger water to soak your feet, which has the following effects.

What are the benefits of soaking your feet in ginger water?

1. Promote blood circulation

From a health perspective, the feet are farthest from the human heart and bear the heaviest burden. Therefore, this place is most likely to cause poor blood circulation. Especially for those who often feel cold hands and feet, soaking feet in hot water is an excellent method. Soaking your feet can promote blood circulation. I believe everyone knows this benefit, especially in winter. It is the most suitable time. The elderly should soak their feet in hot water before going to bed, which can keep out the cold and improve sleep.

2. Stimulate the acupuncture points, reflex areas and meridians of the feet

There are dozens of acupoints on the human feet, and each acupoint corresponds to a different body organ. As long as you soak your feet in hot water every day and do corresponding massage while soaking your feet, you can maintain the health of various organs of the body. After a foot massage, you will feel relaxed all over. At the same time, there are 6 main meridians on the human foot, including the end points of the three yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, and gallbladder meridian) and the starting points of the three yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian, and kidney meridian). Therefore, soaking the feet in hot water is also equivalent to stimulating these six most important meridians.

3. Foot bath to enhance immunity

The health-preserving effect of foot soaking is very good. Soaking feet in the morning can calm the mind and make you refreshed all day long; soaking feet at noon can eliminate the fatigue from morning work; soaking feet at 9 o'clock in the evening can nourish the kidneys; soaking feet half an hour before going to bed can improve sleep. In this way, you can adjust your physical condition to the best and increase your resistance.

4. Chinese medicine foot bath to treat diseases

Simply soaking your feet in hot water can treat the disease, but it is necessary to add appropriate Chinese medicine to get good treatment. Because soaking your feet in hot water can stimulate the acupuncture points on the feet, the thermal effect of the hot water will promote the feet to absorb the Chinese medicinal ingredients in the water. As long as the prescription is prepared for the disease that needs to be treated, the effect of curing the disease can be achieved.

Who is not suitable for foot soaking?

1. Pregnant and menstruating women, because Chinese medicine foot bath may stimulate the gonad reflex area of ​​women, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.

2. People with various serious bleeding diseases, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, blood in the stool, cerebral hemorrhage, gastric bleeding, uterine bleeding and other internal bleeding, may suffer from local tissue bleeding during foot massage.

3. For various critically ill patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction, liver necrosis, etc., since their condition is very unstable, stimulation of the foot reflex zone may cause a strong reaction and complicate the condition.

4. There is no need to soak the feet of infants and young children. Children have a "pure yang body" and are prone to fever and getting angry. If you use hotter water to soak your feet and sweat, it will add insult to injury. Especially for infants and young children, their sense of temperature is different from that of adults. Adults feel that the water temperature is slightly hot, but for children it is already very hot. But they are not very good at expressing themselves, so it is easy to burn their delicate skin. From this perspective, it is not recommended to soak your feet in hot water.

5. Patients with some acute infectious diseases, acute poisoning, and surgical emergencies, such as trauma, fractures, burns, perforations, heavy bleeding, etc., because the best time for treatment may be missed. For example, people who suffer from dizziness, cough, asthma, headache, etc., if they soak their feet in hot water, their condition will be aggravated due to the blood circulation brought about by soaking their feet.

6. People who are in a state of extreme anger, sorrow, or joy, or who are mentally tense or physically fatigued.

7. People with yin deficiency and weak constitution are prone to sweating and dizziness when soaking their feet in hot water due to their constitution.

9. People who take foot bath within 1 hour before or after meals. Because the blood vessels in the feet dilate and the blood volume increases during foot bathing, the blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract and internal organs decreases, affecting the gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not good for digestion; foot bath immediately after meals can cause a decrease in gastrointestinal blood volume, affecting digestion.