Is it good to soak your feet in hot water during the dog days of summer?

Foot soaking has many benefits to the body. Now there are many foot massage and health care centers that provide professional foot soaking and foot massage services. Foot soaking is especially good for middle-aged and elderly people, because there are reflex areas of various organs on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet in hot water can stimulate those reflex areas and have a good effect on eliminating and preventing diseases. It can also improve the body's disease resistance, and soaking your feet in winter can help you sleep.

Before going to bed, add 100-150 grams of vinegar to half a basin of warm water. Soak your feet in it for about half an hour. If you persist in doing this for a long time, you will definitely get unexpected benefits.

1. Eliminate fatigue. Vinegar can accelerate the body's blood circulation, improve the oxygen-carrying capacity of hemoglobin, improve the hypoxia state of various parts of the body caused by fatigue, enhance the metabolism of various systems, and facilitate the discharge of carbon dioxide and waste gas in the body, thereby allowing the body to relax and recover from fatigue.

2. Treat sleep disorders. Soaking your feet in vinegar for half an hour every day can coordinate the excitement levels of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, regulate, clear and relax tense nerves, harmonize the meridians and qi and blood, and balance yin and yang. If you persist in doing this for a long time, you can greatly change the quality of your sleep and cure insomnia, dreaming, early awakening and other sleep disorders.

3. Strengthen your body. The feet are the roots of the human body. There are as many as 75 reflex zones on the feet that have important therapeutic value. Vinegar can penetrate the surface skin of the feet, enhance blood circulation, activate and strengthen organ function, remove blood waste and pathological sediment, and cure many chronic diseases.

In addition, soaking your feet in vinegar can enhance skin elasticity and make the skin smooth; it can also eliminate rheumatism and improve symptoms of human discomfort such as chills and fear of cold. In short, soaking your feet in vinegar has many benefits, and it is simple and practical.

When soaking your feet, you can massage the soles of your feet by pressing and rubbing them, which can also have a health-care function. Exfoliate the soles of your feet once a month to keep your feet smooth and tender. It can also prevent athlete's foot. After get off work, you might as well soak your feet in hot water before going to bed.