Is soaking your feet in ginger good for your health?

Soaking your feet before going to bed in winter is especially good for the body. Soaking your feet can dredge the meridians, improve blood circulation, warm the body and drive away the cold, so you won’t have cold feet and can’t sleep. Soaking your feet is a comfortable way to maintain health. If you add some ginger to the foot bath water, the effect will be better. So what are the benefits of soaking your feet with ginger and what are the precautions for soaking your feet? Let’s take a look.

Benefits of ginger foot bath

1. Protect your kidneys

Soaking your feet in ginger can improve insufficient blood supply, and combined with kidney-tonifying ingredients, it can warm and nourish the kidneys.

2. Reduce cold hands and feet

Ginger can drive away the cold. Cold hands and feet are mainly caused by insufficient blood supply to the extremities of the body. Soaking your feet in ginger can effectively improve blood circulation and relieve the symptoms of cold hands and feet.

3. Delaying aging

As people age, their kidneys weaken. Soaking your feet in ginger can improve your Qi and blood, maintain your kidneys, and effectively delay aging and prolong your life.

4. Improve sleep

Adding a proper amount of black vinegar when soaking your feet with ginger can stimulate the acupoints on the soles of the feet and enhance the metabolism of various systems, thereby relaxing the body, relieving fatigue, and improving sleep quality.

5. Treat colds

Boil a thumb-sized piece of ginger in water or soak it in hot water. When the water temperature is appropriate (around 40 degrees), use it to soak the feet of a cold patient. This can effectively prevent further development of symptoms and stop the cold. Even if you don't have a cold, soaking your feet in ginger can help dispel the cold and prevent it.

6. Treat rheumatism

Ginger has a special effect in dispelling cold and wind. Rheumatic patients can effectively alleviate their symptoms by soaking their feet for half an hour every night. Soaking your feet in a wooden tub that covers your calves can better relieve symptoms such as rheumatoid arthritis.

The above introduces the benefits of soaking feet with ginger, as well as some precautions for soaking feet. Soaking feet is a very common health-preserving method. The editor here needs to remind everyone that female friends during menstruation must not use Chinese medicine for foot soaking casually, because women’s immunity during menstruation is not very good, so you must be more careful. Also, when soaking feet, you must pay attention to the water temperature and time. You cannot soak your feet half an hour after a meal, and the soaking time should not be too long.