How to soak your feet? The best way to soak your feet. The convenience of modern bathing makes many people feel troublesome and don't like to soak their feet alone. However, the best way to play the effect is to soak your feet alone. When soaking your feet, you should use a higher bucket to relax the meridians on your feet and legs through heat, so as to speed up the blood circulation and improve the blood supply of organs such as heart and brain. With the continuous increase of heat, you will sweat slightly, which can dredge the meridians, expel the cold and waste in your body and regulate your body temperature, Reduce false fire. In addition, the improvement of blood circulation has a very obvious two-way regulation effect on blood pressure.
Expert tips: after a busy day, you must spend half an hour relaxing and adjusting your body. As long as you stick to it every day, soaking your feet alone can make you live 10 more years.
1. Use a bucket to soak your feet
Although the wooden barrel has good thermal insulation effect, it is too heavy and expensive and inconvenient to use. You can buy a higher plastic barrel in the supermarket to replace it and heat water while soaking. Now there are many electric foot pots. It would be better if they could be made higher and as deep as a bucket.
2. It's best to soak your feet at 4-5 p.m
Most people will choose to soak their feet before going to bed, which is convenient and conducive to sleep.
However, if you have enough time, you can soak your feet around 4-5 p.m., that is, when the Qi and blood of bladder and kidney meridians are most vigorous. At this time, the effect of Tonifying the kidney is the best.
Tip: every time you soak your feet, you usually get hot and sweat a little. Even if you soak your feet, drink more water and replenish water in time. It is best to soak your feet while drinking warm water or ginger brown sugar water to make your body produce more heat, and let the cold and dampness out of your body in time through sweating.
3. Temperature of foot soaking water
This depends on everyone's specific heat resistance. At the beginning, the temperature can be lower, and then slowly add hot water and keep heating until the whole body is hot.
4. Don't add anything to the water with your feet
It's best not to add anything casually in the foot soaking water, because the medicine used for foot soaking is easy to absorb due to the action of heat. When the body is cold, you can add Wormwood Leaves to soak together, but you can't add them every day. Add them 1-2 times a week, and a handful of wormwood leaves can be added.
Tip: remember, do not add salt to the foot soaking water frequently, which will hurt the kidney and easily cause systemic edema. Many people have caused systemic edema, endocrine disorder and aggravation of the original kidney disease due to the recommendation of soaking feet with salt water in some health care newspapers and periodicals. People with serious beriberi can add vinegar to the foot soaking water, which can sterilize and relieve itching.
It is a very good health care method to soak your feet in warm water for many years. Don't always think of adding all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine. If it is not suitable for your physical condition, it will backfire.