White vinegar and pepper foot bath

Soaking your feet with white vinegar and peppercorns is a good health-preserving method. It can relieve fatigue, promote sleep, and expel cold. It is more suitable for foot soaking in autumn and winter. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, such foot soaking can also prevent high blood pressure. Of course, when soaking your feet with white vinegar and peppercorns, you should pay attention to some precautions. The soaking time should not be too long, and the water temperature should not be too high.

White vinegar and pepper foot bath

Soaking your feet in pepper and vinegar every day can help prolong your life, prevent colds and fevers, and improve your resistance. Soaking your feet in pepper and vinegar together can help soothe your nerves.

Sichuan pepper can remove the fishy smell of various meats; promote saliva secretion and increase appetite; dilate blood vessels, thereby lowering blood pressure; taking Sichuan pepper water can remove parasites; it has the effects of aromatic stomachic, warming the middle and dispersing cold, removing dampness and relieving pain, killing insects and detoxifying, and relieving itching and fishy smell.

The effect of soaking feet in vinegar and pepper

In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that soaking your feet in water with peppercorns is better for promoting sleep than soaking your feet in hot water. The method is very simple. Wrap 50 grams of peppercorns (1 jin is divided into 10 portions) in a cotton cloth, tie it tightly with a rope, add vinegar and boil it, and use the water to soak your feet. That's it. It can warm the middle, relieve pain, remove dampness and dispel cold. Soaking your feet in water with pepper has the same effect as soaking your feet in water with angelica or safflower. Both can invigorate blood circulation and dredge meridians, making the blood flow throughout the body unobstructed and the whole body warm. In addition, Sichuan peppercorns are a natural disinfectant, and soaking your feet in vinegar with Sichuan peppercorns can help treat athlete's foot.

For those with high blood pressure, asthma, or heart disease, the soaking time should be shortened to 15 minutes. If there is no discomfort, the soaking time can be increased. If you sweat after soaking, you should wipe off the sweat, take a rest and then go out; because your pores are wide open at this time, and if you are blown by the wind, you will easily catch a cold.