What are the effects of soaking your feet in pepper water

As people's living standards continue to improve, they pay more and more attention to the topic of health preservation. The health-preserving method of foot soaking can be achieved by every household. There are many acupoints on our feet, and regular massage of these acupoints has many benefits to our body. Soaking your feet every night for health preservation also requires methods and techniques. You need to adjust the water temperature to an appropriate level, and it is best to add some nutrients, such as Sichuan peppercorns. Soaking your feet in Sichuan peppercorn water can dispel the cold, keep you warm, and replenish your qi and promote salivation. Let’s take a look at the effects of soaking your feet in pepper water.

1. As the saying goes: "To grow a tree, you need to protect its roots; to grow a person, you need to protect his feet." The feet are the "second heart" of the human body, and "soaking feet in hot water is better than taking tonics" is a famous saying in health preservation. If you add some peppercorns to the foot bath water, the effect will be even more amazing.

Sichuan pepper is not only one of the most commonly used seasonings, but also a Chinese medicine. It can warm the middle and relieve pain, remove dampness and dispel cold. Zanthoxylum bungeanum belongs to the lung, kidney and liver meridians, and has the effects of dispelling cold, replenishing kidney yang, improving eyesight, digesting food and guiding fire back to its source. Soaking your feet in water with pepper has the same effect as soaking your feet in water with angelica or safflower. Both can invigorate blood circulation and dredge meridians, keeping the blood flow throughout the body unobstructed.

The efficacy of soaking feet in Sichuan pepper : Sichuan pepper is a cold-relieving medicine. It can dispel internal cold, support yang energy, and promote the flow of qi and water. In addition, Sichuan pepper has the effects of sterilization, disinfection, analgesia, itching relief, and elimination of ulcers.

The effect of soaking feet in pepper : Some places say "treat the upper disease from the lower part". Soaking feet can promote blood circulation in the body and strengthen the barrier of the respiratory system.

2. The effect of soaking feet in pepper water : Some places say "treat the upper disease from the lower part". Soaking feet can promote blood circulation in the body and enhance the barrier function of the respiratory system, so it can help relieve cough symptoms and reduce the occurrence of colds; when soaking feet, it can promote blood to flow from top to bottom, so blood pressure is also easier to stabilize; soaking feet in pepper water is better for promoting sleep than soaking feet in hot water. Children who love to cough and middle-aged and elderly people with high blood pressure will benefit from soaking their feet regularly.

3. How to soak your feet in pepper water

1. Now we all prefer the health-preserving method of foot soaking, which is healthier. One of them is to soak your feet in pepper water, which can promote blood circulation in the body, enhance the barrier function of the respiratory system, help relieve cough symptoms and reduce the occurrence of colds. When soaking your feet, the blood flows from top to bottom, and blood pressure naturally stabilizes. It is not advisable to soak your feet in pepper water for a long time continuously. When you feel the original symptoms have disappeared, you should stop for a few days and continue soaking your feet again when the symptoms of deficiency reappear. Otherwise, the phenomena mentioned in ancient Chinese medical books such as "lack of energy" and "fire generated from water" may occur. In this regard, from my experience: excessive use of pepper water for foot soaking mainly causes "lung fire", and then "strong fire consumes qi", so qi deficiency, in addition, the occurrence of lung problems such as cough, runny nose, sputum, and susceptibility to colds also proves this point.

2. People with symptoms of yin deficiency should pay attention to replenishing yin in time when soaking their feet in pepper water, especially in winter. Because soaking feet in water with Sichuan pepper has the functions of clearing water channels, dispelling cold, and helping food, and there is sweating in the process, it has a somewhat "dry" feeling like other yang-tonifying medicines. Especially for people with symptoms of yin deficiency, soaking feet in water with Sichuan pepper should be combined with yin-tonifying, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency. From my personal experience, because of regular physical activities and a lot of sweating, if I don’t pay attention to replenishing Yin, I often have symptoms of Yin deficiency. In addition, I soak my feet in pepper water, so I often consciously replenish Yin, such as boiling water with yam.