What do I need to pay attention to when soaking my feet?

When soaking your feet, you need to pay attention to not soaking your feet within half an hour after eating, because soaking your feet will promote blood circulation, the blood circulation of the gastrointestinal tract will be affected, which will affect the digestion of the gastrointestinal tract, and soaking your feet within half an hour after a long-term meal may cause chronic gastritis or malnutrition.

When soaking your feet, be careful not to soak your feet for too long, and do not soak your feet in too hot water. Don't soak your feet after a full meal. Elderly people with weak constitutions should not soak for too long. Children should not soak their feet too often.

You need to pay attention to the temperature of the foot soak, you need to pay attention to the substances in the water, you also need to pay attention to the harm to the body, you also need to pay attention to your physical condition, and you also need to pay attention to your mental state.

1.It is best to control the foot soaking time at about 15 to 30 minutes, and if you feel uncomfortable, you need to stop soaking your feet immediately

2.Soak your feet at least half an hour after eating, if you soak your feet immediately after eating, all the blood that should be flowing to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs, and digestive problems will occur over time.

3.The temperature of the water for foot soaking should be well controlled.

4.Be careful not to blow the wind immediately after soaking your feet.

5.Patients with unstable blood pressure should try not to soak their feet.

There are many people who like to use foot soaking to maintain health, so do you know what you need to pay attention to when soaking your feet, let's find out together.

1. The best duration is 15-20 minutes

The foot soaking time should not be too long, 15-2030 minutes is appropriate. When you soak your feet, blood flows to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly should temporarily stop soaking their feet and take a rest if they feel chest tightness and dizziness.

Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, and family members should test the water temperature first to prevent burns.

2. The optimal water temperature is 40 -50

The water temperature should not be too high. Many people think that as long as they are within their tolerance, the higher the water temperature, the better, but this is not the case. The best water temperature for foot soaking is below 50, it is required to be hot but not hot, and the water temperature should not be measured by hand, it is best to feel it with feet.

3. The amount of water should not be too small

It is best to soak your feet in a deep, large wooden bucket or enamel basin that allows your feet to sit comfortably flat in it, and it is best to soak the water all the way down to your calves.

4. Don't be half-hearted when soaking your feet

Don't read books or watch TV when soaking your feet, so that it is easy to achieve the effect of "returning to the source".

5. Pay attention to hygiene and cleanliness of the bubble barrel

If the foot soaking bucket is not cleaned thoroughly or there is no antibacterial treatment in the barrel wall, bacteria on the feet are easy to remain in the barrel wall, resulting in repeated infections to the feet, so it is very important to choose a good foot soaking bucket.

6. Women should not use Chinese medicine to soak their feet indiscriminately during menstruation

Women's menstrual problems are more complicated, if you can't identify the cause, soak your feet with traditional Chinese medicine, not only will not play a soothing role, but may also aggravate symptoms such as dysmenorrhea. Therefore, if women want to use traditional Chinese medicine to soak their feet to achieve the purpose of menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea, it is best to consult a doctor and take symptomatic medication according to their own conditions.

7. Do not soak your feet within half an hour after eating

It affects the blood supply to the stomach and can lead to malnutrition in the long run. After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract, and if you soak your feet in hot water immediately after eating, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs, which will affect digestion and absorption over time and lead to nutrient deficiency. Therefore, it is best to soak your feet half an hour after eating.

8. Do not go to bed immediately after soaking your feet

You can't sleep right away after soaking your feet. Rub the soles of your feet when your feet are hot, put on your socks in time to keep warm, and wait for the heat of your whole body to slowly decrease before falling asleep.

1. It is best to use a wooden barrel or wooden basin for foot soaking.

A bucket or basin with a large bottom area allows your feet to rest comfortably flat and soak above your ankles, and water is best for calves, so it is best to use a wooden bucket or basin with a large bottom area.

2. It is best to soak your feet one hour after eating.

Soaking your feet immediately after a meal will affect digestion and absorption, and in the long run, it will lead to a lack of nutrients in the body, so it is best to soak your feet an hour after eating.

3. It is not advisable to soak your feet with traditional Chinese medicine.

If a woman has dysmenorrhea and wishes to soak her feet with traditional Chinese medicine, she should consult a doctor before soaking her feet and follow the doctor's advice.

4. Don't soak your feet for too long.

The foot soaking time should be 15-30 minutes, and the time should not be too long. Especially for the elderly, if you notice dizziness or chest tightness, you should stop soaking your feet.

5. Diabetic patients should pay attention to the water temperature.

Diabetic patients should pay special attention to the level of water temperature, because the peripheral nerves of such patients cannot normally perceive the outside temperature, even if the water temperature is high, they cannot feel it, and they are easily burned, which can lead to very serious consequences.

7. Beriberi patients should be careful of infection.

People suffering from athlete's foot, when the condition is severe enough to blister, it is not advisable to soak their feet in hot water, because it is easy to cause wound infection. People with foot inflammation, disease, trauma or scald injury are not easy to soak their feet early.

8. Patients with some diseases should pay more attention to foot soaking.

In good health'It's okay for people to soak their feet and soak in hot springs, but special groups should pay attention. For example, patients with heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, low blood pressure, and frequent dizziness should not soak their feet in too hot water or soak in hot springs for a long time. Because after soaking feet or hot springs in hot water, it will cause the blood vessels of the human body to dilate, and the blood of the whole body will flow from important organs to the body surface, which will inevitably lead to ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as the heart and brain, and for people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase their risk of disease.

Soaking your feet before going to bed at night will warm up your whole body and make you feel more relaxed. I believe that some people like to soak their feet very much, and they also have the habit of soaking their feet every day. However, soaking your feet is not as simple as people think, unlike washing your feet.

If you want to soak your feet to maximize the health benefits and prevent the opposite effect, you need to pay attention to many aspects. What details do you need to pay attention to when soaking your feet?

1.Pay attention to the time of foot soaking.

Many people have such a habit of soaking their feet, that is, adding water while soaking their feet, ensuring that there is a suitable temperature when soaking their feet, and often soaking for an hour. In fact, the time of foot soaking should not be too long, especially for some elderly people. If you soak for too long, you will experience sweating or palpitation.

About 20 minutes is more appropriate, and the time is not short or long.

2.Pay attention to the temperature of the water.

People should pay attention to the temperature of the water when soaking their feet, not the hotter the better. If the water temperature is set too high, you will accidentally burn your feet. The water temperature can be maintained at around 40 and should not exceed 45 at the maximum.

Nowadays, many electronic foot soaking buckets have a constant temperature function, which can be directly adjusted to 40. If you don't have an electric foot bath, you can soak your feet in a regular foot bath bucket.

3.Don't soak your feet immediately after eating.

Many people like to soak their feet after eating and feel very comfortable. In fact, this habit is wrong, because after eating, our stomach needs a lot of blood** to facilitate digestion. If we soak our feet at this time, the temperature of the water will cause a large amount of blood to flow through our feet, reducing blood flow in the stomach and causing digestive problems to occur.

Over time, it will also have a certain impact on our gastrointestinal health.

4.Don't go to bed right after soaking your feet.

There are also many people who soak their feet before going to bed because they think it's time to sleep, but after we soak our feet, the blood circulation becomes faster, and at this time, if we lie down directly, it will increase the pressure on our heart and also increase our own blood pressure. Especially in middle-aged and elderly people, this may also induce some sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. So don't go to bed right away after soaking your feet.

5.Pay attention to the best time to soak your feet.

Soak your feet before going to bed at night, preferably at nine o'clock, which is the best time to replenish your kidneys. Soaking your feet at 9 o'clock in the evening can promote blood circulation throughout the body, relieve the tense nerves of the day, achieve the effect of health preservation and kidney supplementation, completely relax and regulate human body functions, promote sleep, and improve the symptoms of insomnia and dreams.

When soaking your feet, you must pay attention to the temperature of the water, the temperature of the water should be controlled between 55 degrees and 60 degrees, and the time of soaking your feet should not be too long, about 15 minutes to 20 minutes, and then do not choose too hot water, you should take out your feet after the water is cold. You can add some herbs to it, such as saffron.

When soaking your feet, the water temperature should not be too high, control within 40 45 degrees, and the time should not be too long, it is best to control it within 20 minutes, soak until your back sweats slightly, you must wipe dry your feet in time, pay attention to keeping warm, and drink a cup of warm water after soaking your feet.

It is important to note that the water temperature should not be too high. And you can't soak your feet for a long time, and you can't soak your feet in a foot soaking bag every day. You should also not soak your feet in cold water, nor should you soak your feet in the wrong way.

Be sure to pay attention to the water temperature, pay attention to the time of foot soaking, pay attention to the condition of your feet, pay attention to the color of your feet, and pay attention to the posture of foot soaking, foot soaking is good for the body and can promote blood circulation.

The details that need to be paid attention to are to pay attention to the temperature of the foot soak, pay attention to the time of foot soaking, pay attention to the traditional Chinese medicine put in the foot soak, pay attention to the color of the water, and pay attention to the body's reaction.

One: Why can soaking your feet at night replenish blood?

Blood deficiency, blood stasis, cold hands and feet, dull tongue, spots on the face, heart tightness, suffocation, breathlessness Soak your feet at night--- put safflower in hot water (pungent taste, warmth, return to the liver meridian and pericardial meridian, break blood, carry blood, and regulate blood), promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis; Dredging the three yin meridians of the kidney, liver and spleen.

Two: Tips for soaking your feet.

Soak your feet in spring, open the sun and solidify it; Soak your feet in summer to dispel dampness and remove heat; Soak your feet in autumn to clear your intestines and moisten your lungs; Soak your feet in winter, and the dantian is warm.

When soaking your feet, if you put an appropriate amount of salt in the foot soaking water, it can be **, and it can effectively prevent constipation, and it can also eliminate the fatigue of the day, and it is also conducive to sleep.

Put vinegar in the water to treat foot odor, remove foot odor, treat athlete's foot, promote blood circulation, and remove rheumatism.

Put ginger, tangerine peel and mint in the water to cure spleen and stomach deficiency, warm the spleen and stomach, and dispel dampness.

Put white peony, motherwort, angelica in the water, treat dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea is generally caused by body cold or qi stagnation and blood stasis, white peony removes yin qi, dispels abdominal pain, and smooths the blood veins; Motherwort removes stasis and regenerates new ones, invigorates blood and regulates menstruation; Angelica sinensis replenishes blood and invigorates blood, regulates menstruation and relieves pain, and can also make ** white and ruddy, and improve the problem of cold hands and feet.

If you put some peppercorns in the water for soaking your feet, it also has certain benefits, it can get rid of our foot odor, you can also remove the moisture of the body, and it is also conducive to blood circulation, you can increase more yang energy, and you can effectively prevent yin deficiency.

Put dried ginger in the water to treat rheumatism and bone pain, fear of cold and cold, dry ginger is warm and cold, and returns to the pulse.

Put 10 grams of astragalus, 10 grams of bone-penetrating grass, 10 grams of tendon grass, and 6 grams of Sichuan pepper in the water to alleviate diabetes (caused by yin deficiency) and dispel dampness of Sichuan pepper; Astragalus membranaceus replenishes qi and solidifies the surface; Bone Penetration, which can help the medicine penetrate deep into the body and exert its medicinal power.

3. Four taboos for foot soaking.

1. Avoid soaking your feet just after eating or on an empty stomach. It should be half an hour after meals.

Second, avoid the water temperature is too high. It should be 40-50 degrees.

The three taboos are too long. It should be about 20 minutes, and it is okay to sweat slightly.

The four taboos are self-assertive and indiscriminate use of traditional Chinese medicine. Contraindications to foot soaking: menstruating or pregnant women; Patients with bleeding symptoms should not soak their feet.

Fourth, when soaking your feet.

The upper body does not sweat, and the lower body sweats with cold kidneys; The upper body is hot, and the lower body is not sweaty.