What are the benefits of soaking your feet every day

Our feet are the farthest from our heart. Due to the cold stimulation in winter, the blood vessels in our feet are prone to contraction, blood circulation will be obstructed to varying degrees, and it is also easy to cause a variety of diseases. Soaking your feet in hot water every day is a very good way to maintain health. It can relieve physical fatigue, help sleep, improve local blood circulation, and promote our body's metabolism.

It has bactericidal, disinfecting, analgesic, antipruritic and anti-swelling effects. Soaking your feet in a decoction of Sichuan peppercorns can treat internal diseases without external treatment, because there are reflex areas on the feet that correspond to the internal organs of the human body. Soaking or massaging these reflex areas with the decoction can dredge the meridians and blood vessels throughout the body, regulate the functions of various parts of the human body, and achieve the effect of preventing and treating diseases and self-care.

When soaking your feet, be careful not to soak them for too long, 30 minutes at most. Otherwise, the local blood circulation in the feet will be too fast for a long time, which will cause relative ischemia in other parts of the body, and the elderly may faint due to insufficient blood supply to the brain. Therefore, it should be taken in moderation. 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, which will cause malnutrition in the elderly in the long run. You can't go to bed immediately after soaking your feet. Rub the soles of your feet while they are still hot, put on socks to keep warm in time, and go to bed after the temperature of your whole body slowly decreases. This is the best way to achieve the best effect.

It is best to use a deep wooden bucket or enamel basin with a large bottom area for foot soaking, so that your feet can be placed flat and comfortably, and the water should soak all the way to your calves. The water temperature is more suitable at around 40 degrees Celsius, and hot water should be added at any time.

Soaking feet every day can help our body get rid of the cold. You can add some Chinese medicinal materials into the water for soaking feet. It can relieve fatigue while soaking feet and also has a therapeutic effect on athlete's foot. If women insist on soaking their feet every day before, during and after menstruation, it can also relieve dysmenorrhea. People with qi and blood deficiency can soak their feet every day to replenish blood and qi.