Breathing in and rubbing your belly while taking a bath can regulate your stomach and relieve constipation

After a busy day, taking a hot bath can not only relieve fatigue but also help you sleep. If you do these three "small movements" at the same time, it can also improve some minor physical ailments and be of great benefit to your health.

1. Rub your face

Office workers who are under long-term stress can try this exercise. There are many facial muscles and sensitive nerves on the face. Rub your face while taking a shower. Hot water can stimulate these nerves better. Under the dual effects of friction and water temperature, the facial blood vessels expand and thicken when exposed to heat, blood circulation accelerates, facial muscles stretch, metabolism is promoted, and the face remains firm and rosy. Long-term persistence can prevent facial neuritis and vision loss. The method is to rub your face up and down with your palms until it becomes warm. The force can be a little heavier, once per second, rub 3-5 times, each time for no less than 3 minutes. People with dry skin should not use too heavy a force, and the speed should not be too fast, so as not to hurt the skin.

2. Breathe in

This movement helps improve loss of appetite caused by various chronic diseases. This group of people can consciously take a shower 30 minutes before meals, use hot water to stimulate the stomach, and after the body is warm, spray hot water around the chest, rinse for 5 seconds and rest for 1 minute, and repeat 5 times; if there is a bathtub at home, you can soak in hot water for a while while performing abdominal breathing (inhale through the nose, let the abdomen bulge, and then exhale through the mouth), and then rinse the abdomen with slightly cold water. This stimulation of cold and hot water can promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase appetite. For people with excessive stomach acid, gastric and duodenal ulcers, soaking in hot water for 3-4 minutes can control the secretion of stomach acid, alleviate and control the condition.

3. Rub your belly

Patients with hemorrhoids and middle-aged and elderly people with poor gastrointestinal function can try this movement. When taking a bath, you can use your palms to massage your abdomen in a clockwise direction, while breathing deeply as your abdomen expands and contracts, and use the shower head to flush your abdomen. This can treat chronic constipation and prevent and treat hemorrhoids. For neurogenic constipation, flush the intestines with 40℃ hot water for about 3 minutes, then with 25℃ warm water for 10 seconds, and repeat 5 times to increase large intestine motility.

It should be noted that warm water at 40℃ is ideal for eliminating fatigue, because the normal armpit temperature of the human body is 37℃ and the body temperature is 40℃, which is closest to the human body temperature. If the water temperature is too high, more calories will be consumed, which will not eliminate fatigue but make you feel uncomfortable; if the water temperature is too low, blood vessels will constrict, making it difficult to eliminate fatigue.