What are the benefits of soaking your feet in pepper and vinegar?

Sichuan peppercorns and vinegar are both condiments. Sichuan peppercorns have a unique taste. Many people pay attention to health preservation. Soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns and vinegar has many benefits to the human body. Soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns and vinegar every day can prolong your life, prevent colds, and help the body sleep. In addition to these, there are many other benefits. What are the effects of soaking your feet with Sichuan peppercorns and vinegar? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. It can prolong life

Soaking your feet with pepper and vinegar every day can help prolong your life, prevent colds and fevers, and improve your resistance. Soaking your feet with pepper and vinegar can help soothe your nerves, relieve fatigue and promote sleep, and force out the body's cold. If you have itchy feet, it can also reduce inflammation and relieve itching.

2. Promote saliva secretion and increase appetite

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

3. Promote sleep

In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that soaking feet in pepper water is better for promoting sleep than soaking feet in hot water. The method is very simple. Wrap 50 grams of pepper (1 jin is divided into 10 parts) in a cotton cloth, tie it tightly with a rope, add vinegar and boil it, then soak your feet in this water. That's it. It can warm the middle and relieve pain, remove dampness and dispel cold. Soaking feet in pepper water has the same effect as soaking feet in angelica and safflower. They can both invigorate blood circulation and dredge meridians, so that the blood vessels of the whole body are unobstructed and the whole body is warm. In addition, pepper is also a natural disinfectant. Soaking feet in pepper with vinegar can also help treat athlete's foot. Patients with athlete's foot can improve their condition by soaking their feet in pepper and vinegar, and the effect is good.

4. Precautions

For those with high blood pressure, asthma, and 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 the pores are wide open at this time, if the wind blows, it is easy to catch a cold. So be sure to wipe off the sweat to avoid catching a cold.