The benefits of soak your feet with saline water, the effect of soak your feet with saline water and contraindication.

Introduction.

 Introduction of saltwater foot bath Introduction: This article introduces in detail the benefits of the saltwater foot bath, foot bath taboo, and tips needing attention, foot bath common misunderstanding and other knowledge. For the habit of foot bath friends have a certain reference.

 
The benefits of foot bath with saline water, the effect of soak your feet with saline water and contraindication.

 benefits of foot bath with saline water ✵What benefits you can get from foot bath: The ancients had studied the spring foot bath, the healthcare of the feet in the spring has been discussed, the simplest method is to soak the feet, with hot water plus a little salt to wash, long-term adhere to can prompt the flow of Qi and blood through meridian, play a variety of unexpected health care effect. Saltwater foot bath method is very simple, add two tablespoons of salt in half a basin of hot water. Often can sterilize foot, prevent beriberi disease, still can maintain sufficient skin smooth and clean.

 ✵Foot bath works better at 9 PM:  According to Chinese medicine, the downside of the feet is the confluence of meridians and collaterals, with more than 60 acupoints and reflex areas connected with internal viscera, respectively corresponding to the internal viscera of the human body. Foot bath has the function of stretching meridian and activating collaterals, improving blood circulation. The effect of the foot bath in different time periods is slightly different. Choose 9 PM or so to take a foot bath, kidney protection effect is better.

 The benefits of soak your feet with saline water, the effect of soak your feet with saline water and contraindication. ✵Foot bath with proper length of time: When bath your feet, the water should be over the ankle joint, the water temperature should not be too hot, with 40℃ or so appropriate, foot bath for about half an hour or so is appropriate. Chinese medicine experts believe that you can take a foot bath while drinking a cup of tea, and watching TV, chat, relieve fatigue, it is a good thing to dispel disease and strengthen the body.

 ✵What benefits you can get from foot bath: Bath your feet for 15 minutes a day to help with your health care. For example, if you immerse your feet in hot water at about 40 degrees, your headache will be relieved significantly after 15-20 minutes. This is because blood vessels in the feet dilate, and blood flows from the head to the feet, which reduces the amount of congestion in the brain and relieves headaches. Hot water bath feet is helpful to reduce fever for the headache that causes by cold fever disease.

 If you can massage Yong Quan point and press Taichong point on the back of the big toe, it will also help to reduce blood pressure. Therefore, adhere to a scientific pedicure, especially to alleviate a variety of occupational diseases the modern urban crowd prone to, often can receive twice the result with half the effort. The specific benefits of foot bath are as follows:

 1. Promote blood circulation:From the perspective of health preservation theory, feet are the furthest away from the heart of the human body, and the burden is the heaviest. Therefore, this region of feet is most likely to have poor blood circulation. According to medical records, "Man has feet, just like trees have roots. The tree withered from the root, the man aging from the feet." Foot bath is a great way especially for people who often feel their hands and feet cold.

 2. Stimulate the acupoints, reflex areas and meridians of the foot: A lot of people had done a pedicure, when massager dot presses our foot, can feel painful ache, acid bilges, this kind of circumstance basically can explain our corresponding reflex area viscera has a problem.

 So, when we get a foot massage, we feel relaxed. At the same time, there are 6 main meridians on human body foot, include 3 Yang meridian (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, bile meridian) terminating point, and 3 Yin meridian (spleen meridian, liver meridian, kidney meridian) starting point, are on foot area, accordingly, bath foot is equal to stimulate these 6 main meridians and collaterals.

 ✵3. Adjuvant therapy for a variety of diseases: As the ancient saying goes: "those rich take tonics, those poor take a foot bath." from which we can see foot bath has a good effect. Especially in modern society, the use of air conditioning, and in general people love to eat cool food, so the body is more cold and wet, through foot bath, can accelerate the discharge of cold inside the body.

 Salt-foot bath nourish the kidneys and fight aging: our hearts are the furthest away from our feet, and therefore supply very little blood. By soaking feet in saltwater, the active components of saltwater can enter our kidneys and heart, promote blood circulation, and play a role in tonifying the kidney and anti-aging.

 Foot bath can treat cold: foot bath with saline water promotes blood circulation, dispel cold pathogen in the foot area, can achieve the effect treating cold.

 Foot bath can treat beriberi: salt has very good effect that kills bacteria, put salt in hot water, can make good use of the temperature of water, the skin pore opened, then the skin can better absorb the composition in saline water, so can help us treat beriberi.

 Salt-Foot bath can clean your feet: because salt is so good at killing germs, it helps clean your feet. After daily work with fatigue, bath your foot with saline water, the cleanness of the foot is very necessary.

 Saltwater Foot bath can clean horniness: because salt has the effect that removing horniness, put salt to take a foot bath in hot water, the heat energy in hot water could strengthen cleaning action.

 Salt water Foot bath can help sleep fight aging: often wash feet with saltwater, coupled with massage springs and other acupoints, can promote local blood circulation, help sleep and anti-aging, can also treat cold, even enhance memory, make the mind feel relaxed.

 The method that bath foot with saline water: general proposal everybody can add half spoon salt in half basin hot water, at the same time water temperature a little higher. But if there is a cut or inflammation in the foot, you should not wash it with saltwater.

 
Tips of foot bath.

 Safety foot bath is contraindicated ✵Safety foot bath is contraindicated: 

 1st, time of foot bath should not be too long, with 15-30 minutes advisable: in foot bath the blood can flow to the lower limb, lead to blood supply deficiency in the brain. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the elderly who feel chest tightness, dizziness, should temporarily stop the foot bath, take a rest. Diabetic patients with poor peripheral sensory ability, family members should test water temperature first, to prevent the occurrence of scald.

 2nd, do not take a foot bath in 1 hour after a meal: After a meal, most of the blood in the body flow to the digestive tract. If the feet are soaked with hot water immediately after the meal, the blood that should have flowed to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead, which will affect digestion and absorption over time and lead to a lack of nutrition. Accordingly, better take your foot bath in 1 hour after the meal.

 3rd, better use wooden basin for TCM foot bath:The chemical composition in cupreous basin and so on metal basin is unstable, the tannic acid in herbs easily produces reaction, generate tannic acid iron and so on harmful substance, make curative effect is discounted greatly.

 4th, children should not use overheated water to bathe feet for a long time: because the arch of the foot is formed from childhood, it should be protected from childhood. If used hot water to wash children's feet, the ligament of the sole(pelma) will become loose, not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch of the foot, easy to form a flat foot.

 5th, don't mess with herbs to bathe feet during menstrual period: the problem that female menstruation appears is more complicated, if cannot identify the reason, use Chinese traditional medicine to bathe foot, not only won't have relieving effect, still can aggravate the symptom such as dysmenorrhea possibly. Therefore, if a woman wishes to treat menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea by bath feet with traditional Chinese medicine, it is better to consult a herbalist and take the right herb medicine according to her own situation.

 People are not suitable for foot bath ✵People are not suitable for foot bath: 

 1. Diabetic patients: easy to burn. Diabetics often have neuropathy, whose peripheral nerve can not normally sense the outside temperature, easy to be scalded.

 2. People with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases cannot bath their feet: because bath foot will accelerate the blood circulation, can aggravate the burden to the heart, better not bath foot.

 3. Foot trauma, blisters, scabies, inflammation, suppuration, edema, and severe varicose vein patients need to be cured before the foot bath, otherwise easily lead to wound infection or aggravation of the condition.

 4. Pregnancy and menstrual period of women: because Chinese medicine foot bath sufficiently may stimulate the gonadal reflex area of women, thereby affecting the health of women and their fetuses.

 5. The person that can bleed habitually had better not bath foot because bath foot might increase the hemorrhage rate.

 6. Renal failure, myocardial infarction, liver necrosis, and other critical patients: because the condition is very unstable, the foot reflex area stimulation may cause a strong reaction, make the condition complicated.

 7. In the angry, sad, happy or nervous, physical fatigue: the high temperature will affect their mood and circulatory system.

 8. Don't bath your feet within 1 hour before and after meals: Because foot ministry blood vessel dilates, blood volume increases when sufficient bath, cause gastric bowel and viscera blood to reduce, affect gastric bowel and digestion function.

 That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit gastric juice secretion, adverse to digestion: sufficient bath after a meal can cause gastric bowel blood volume to reduce, affect digestion.

 

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