What are the benefits of soaking your feet in warm water?

Nowadays, more and more people pay more attention to health preservation, especially when going to bed at night. Most people may take a hot bath or soak their feet in warm water. Especially some middle-aged and elderly people often use foot basins to soak their feet in warm water. In fact, soaking feet in warm water has many benefits, but many people don’t know much about it. Let the editor give you a detailed introduction to the benefits of soaking feet in warm water!

Soaking feet in hot water is foot bathing, which is one of the contents of traditional Chinese medicine foot therapy and is also a commonly used external treatment method. Soaking your feet in hot water can relieve fatigue and help you sleep. At the same time, adding some Chinese medicine to the water can also have other effects. Soaking your feet in hot water can improve local blood circulation, drive away the cold, promote metabolism, and ultimately achieve the purpose of health care. Soaking your feet in appropriate Chinese medicine also has a certain effect on athlete's foot.

Foot soaking is the key to health preservation. It can remove waste and pathological sediment from the human blood, cleanse the body, and resist various diseases. Foot soaking has a good auxiliary effect in the treatment of many diseases. People often say: "Rich people take tonics and poor people soak their feet." It can be seen that foot soaking has a great effect.

Benefits of hot water foot bath

(1) Promote blood circulation. Since ancient times, feet have been regarded as the second heart of the human body. From the health perspective, feet are farthest from the human heart and bear the heaviest burden, so this place is most likely to cause poor blood circulation. Medical books record: "People have feet, just like trees have roots. When a tree dies, the roots die first. When a person grows old, the feet age first." Hot water soaking feet is an excellent method, especially for those who often feel cold hands and feet.

(2) Stimulate the acupuncture points, reflex areas and meridians of the feet. From the medical point of view, there are reflex areas, acupoints and meridians of various organs in the human body on the feet. Many people have had foot massages. When the masseur presses on our feet, we will feel pain, soreness and swelling. This situation basically means that there is a problem with the organs in our corresponding reflex areas. So, after we have a foot massage, we will feel relaxed all over. At the same time, there are 6 main meridians on the human foot, including the end points of the three yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, and gallbladder meridian) and the starting points of the three yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian, and kidney meridian). Therefore, soaking the feet in hot water is also equivalent to stimulating these six most important meridians.

(3) It has a good auxiliary effect in the treatment of many diseases. People often say "rich people take tonics, poor people soak their feet", which shows that soaking feet with Chinese medicine has great effect. Especially in modern society, the extensive use of air conditioners, coupled with people's general preference for eating cold food, leads to more cold and dampness in the body. Soaking feet in Chinese medicine can speed up the expulsion of cold from the body.

Soaking your feet in warm water can promote blood circulation, stimulate the acupuncture points, reflex areas and meridians of the feet, and has a good auxiliary effect on the treatment of many diseases. Therefore, you should develop a good habit of soaking your feet in warm water every day. This can not only clean yourself, but also improve the body's resistance, which is very beneficial to human health, so you must insist on soaking your feet in warm water.