There are six benefits of salt water foot bath

Soaking your feet in salt water has benefits and can treat many diseases. Let’s take a look at the effects of soaking your feet in salt water.

1. Soaking your feet in salt water can cure athlete's foot. This is because table salt has a good antiviral and antibacterial effect. By putting table salt in hot water and using the heat in the water, the skin can better absorb the antiviral and antibacterial components of the salt water, thus achieving the effect of soaking your feet in salt water to treat athlete's foot.

2. Soaking your feet in salt water can clean your feet. Because of the antiviral and sterilization effects of table salt, salt water has a strong cleaning ability. Soaking your feet in salt water can clean your feet.

3. Soaking your feet in salt water can exfoliate. Because table salt has an exfoliating effect, you can put table salt in hot water to soak your feet and use the heat in the hot water to enhance the exfoliating effect.

4. Soaking your feet in salt water can nourish the kidneys and resist aging. Because our feet are the farthest from the heart, the blood supply is very small. Soaking your feet in salt water can allow the effective ingredients of the salt water to enter the kidneys and heart and promote blood circulation, thereby achieving the benefits of nourishing the kidneys and resisting aging.

5. Soaking your feet in salt water can cure colds. Soaking your feet in salt water promotes blood circulation and removes the coldness from the feet, thus achieving the effect of curing colds.

6. Soaking your feet in salt water can help you sleep and fight aging. Washing your feet frequently with salt water and massaging acupoints such as Yongquan can promote local blood circulation, help you sleep and fight aging. It can also treat colds and even enhance memory and make the mind feel relaxed.

The method of washing feet with salt water is to add half a spoonful of salt to half a basin of hot water. The water temperature can be slightly higher. However, if there are wounds on the feet, washing the feet with salt water should be postponed.