How to soak your feet more healthily

We now attach great importance to health preservation, and we have developed many health preservation methods. For example, foot soaking is a very good way to maintain health, but foot soaking sounds very simple. Isn’t it just simply putting your feet in hot water to soak? At most, just add some ginger or something. In fact, this view is wrong. Although foot soaking is simple, it requires a lot of knowledge to gain health from it.

So how can we soak our feet more healthily? If we want to get health from foot soaking, we must have a good method and adopt a scientific method to soak our feet. We must know the water temperature for soaking our feet and understand the best time for soaking our feet.

The best time and water temperature for foot soaking: 30 to 45 minutes is appropriate. When soaking your feet, the water temperature should be maintained at 38℃ ~ 43℃. Since metal is easy to cool, it is best to use a wooden basin as a container for foot soaking. You can put some salvia miltiorrhiza and angelica in it, which are good for promoting blood circulation; or you can put some forsythia, honeysuckle, isatis root, and chrysanthemum to play the role of reducing fire and clearing heat. When soaking your feet, the water should usually be above the ankles and you should rub your feet frequently.

Soaking your feet at 9 o'clock in the evening is the best way to nourish your kidneys: 9 o'clock in the evening is the time when the kidney meridian's qi and blood are relatively weak. Soaking your feet at this time will increase your body heat, and your blood vessels will dilate, which is beneficial to blood circulation. After soaking your feet, it is recommended not to engage in other activities and fall asleep after a few minutes for better kidney-tonifying effects.

Add ginger to boiled water and soak your feet: Ginger is a pungent and warm antipyretic medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving exterior symptoms. Modern medicine believes that ginger can stimulate capillaries, improve local blood circulation and metabolism. People who are afraid of cold and have cold hands and feet can soak their feet in ginger. Generally, half a piece of ginger is used to boil half a basin of water for foot soaking. If the amount of water used for foot soaking is larger, or the symptoms of fear of cold are more severe, the amount of ginger can be increased as appropriate.

Soak your feet in water boiled with mugwort: Mugwort has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and stabilizing pregnancy. It is also often used in acupuncture, so it is also called "medicinal herb". Soaking your feet in mugwort can improve lung function and is very beneficial for people with chronic bronchitis and those who easily cough up white phlegm. The method of soaking feet with mugwort is similar to that of soaking feet with ginger. Generally, 30-50 grams (a small handful) of dried mugwort is boiled in water for soaking feet.

Note:

1. Because foot soaking will dilate blood vessels in the body and promote blood circulation, blood in the body will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will cause temporary ischemia and hypoxia in important organs such as the heart and brain. Therefore, people with severe heart disease and low blood pressure should pay attention.

2. Soaking your feet when you are too full, too hungry or have eaten may cause you to feel dizzy and uncomfortable due to the accelerated blood circulation throughout your body. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, as it will affect the blood supply to the stomach.

3. People with infectious skin diseases should pay attention to personal and family hygiene when soaking their feet to prevent cross infection. It is best for family members to use their own bathtub.

Above we introduced that there are many ways to maintain health. We can choose foot soaking as a method of health care, but foot soaking is not simple. The above article introduces in detail how long it takes to soak the feet and what the water temperature needs to be. It also introduces when is the best time of the day to soak the feet and the precautions for soaking the feet.