Is soaking feet good for your health in summer? What water is good for soaking feet in summer?

Due to the influence of hot weather in summer, there are many places to pay attention to in life, especially in nursing. So is it good for you to soak your feet in summer? What water is good for soaking feet in summer? Soaking your feet in summer can also bring many benefits to your health, but you also need to master the correct methods. Let's learn more about the specific content.

1, you can soak your feet in summer.

It's hot in summer, and feet are prone to sweat, especially for some people. Even though they are wearing sandals, they are wet all day. It is particularly important to soak your feet before going to bed at night, which can help clear away the heat and sweat during the day and ensure sleep.

2. Is it better to soak your feet with cold water or hot water?

Hot water is good for soaking feet in summer. In fact, it is best to soak your feet in warm water all year round. Although it is hot in summer, soaking feet with cold water can get cool comfort, but cold air invades the body from the soles of the feet, which is often bad for the body, while warm water does not have these hazards.

3. The benefits of soaking feet in summer

(1) Eliminating foot odor

Many people are afraid to wear sandals in summer, and their feet are sweaty and smelly. This may be a fungal infection. Insist on soaking your feet in warm water, you can wash the sweat off your feet and remove the odor. If you add a proper amount of ginger and salt to the water, you can also kill fungi and remove foot odor.

(2) Eliminating cold and dampness

Although the weather is hot in summer, it is also a serious season for the invasion of cold evil. Almost all air conditioners and electric fans have stopped in summer, and many people like to take a cold bath in summer, which will lead to the invasion of cold and moisture. Although relaxed and free, these cold and moisture will accumulate in the body. Soaking feet with warm water every night helps to remove moisture and cold in the body.

(3) promoting blood circulation

There are a lot of capillaries on the feet. Because these blood vessels are farthest from the heart, their blood vitality is very small. So the flow rate is very slow. Soaking feet with warm water can raise foot temperature, dilate capillaries, promote blood circulation, reduce heart load and improve heart function.

(4) eliminate fatigue

People who are busy every day must have experienced the comfort of soaking feet after work. Warm water can promote blood circulation, promote the metabolism of substances in the body, remove a large number of residues and wastes such as calcium salt and lactic acid in the body after a day's work, relieve fatigue, refresh the mind and help to sleep at night.

(5) Beautiful feet

Soaking feet with hot water can regulate meridians and qi and blood, dilate blood vessels of feet, increase blood volume and blood flow speed, replenish sufficient oxygen and nutrients in time, help to remove the keratinized skin of feet, and have the effect of beautifying feet.

(6) Prevention and treatment of winter diseases

Traditional Chinese medicine has the saying that winter diseases are treated in summer. It is hot in summer, so we should stick to soaking feet with warm water, take a bath with less cold water at ordinary times, pay attention to the temperature of air conditioner and blow less electric fans, which can well reduce the accumulation of cold in the body and prevent cold hands and feet, fear of cold and colds in winter.

4. Disadvantages of soaking feet in summer

(1) leads to chronic diseases.

Because some people want to soak their feet in cold water in summer, they soak their feet in cold water at night, feeling very cold, so they are prone to arthritis and blood stasis for a long time, which also affects warmth in winter. Winter is prone to physical weakness such as cold hands and feet, fear of cold and colds.

(2) aggravate beriberi

Many beriberi are fungal infections. In summer, fungi bloom. At this time, if you still soak your feet with cold water, it will easily lead to a large number of fungal control and aggravate beriberi.

(3) aggravate the condition

Many patients with cardiovascular diseases usually like to soak their feet for health, but it is too hot in summer, so many people soak their feet with cold water. This method of soaking feet will increase blood pressure, which will aggravate the symptoms for many patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Soaking feet with warm water is also harmful to patients with hypotension. The wrong water for soaking feet in summer is easy to aggravate cardiovascular disease.

5. Precautions for soaking feet in summer

1. The choice of warm water and cold water for soaking feet in summer is very important. It is not recommended to soak your feet with cold water to avoid the invasion of cold air.

It is best to soak your feet before going to bed in summer. At this time, the temperature is relatively low, and soaking feet will not be too hot.

3. It is not recommended to add other traditional Chinese medicines to soak feet in summer, just use pure warm water.

6. Foot bath method

(1) mugwort leaves soak feet.

Take 50- 100g of dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict standard), first add water to boil, then add cold water or soak feet after the temperature is lowered. If it's too much trouble, soak the mugwort leaves in some hot water for 20 minutes and then add water to soak your feet.

A few small prescriptions for mugwort soaking feet:

(1) wormwood and ginger can treat colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid diseases, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

(2) wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.

(3) Adding salt to wormwood is suitable for upper energizer with fire, which often leads to jealousy, toothache, sore throat, irritability, catching a cold due to excessive internal heat, and edema of legs and feet.

(4) 20 capsules of Chinese prickly ash are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.

(2) Soak your feet with vinegar

Selection of vinegar: (rice vinegar or aged vinegar100-150g)

The role of vinegar soaking feet:

(1) can solve the problem of foot odor. Soaking feet with vinegar can sterilize and treat beriberi to some extent.

(2) It can relieve fatigue.

(3) It can moisturize skin, soften cutin and increase skin elasticity.

(4) It can dispel wind and dampness and improve the symptoms of chills.

(5) Treating sleep disorders.

(6) Vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood garbage and pathological deposits, and cure many chronic diseases.

(3) almond tea soaking feet

Bitter almond 45g, green tea 10g. Put the above medicines together in a pot, add 2000 ml of water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove residues and get juice. Apply 1 vial to face and arms, pour the rest into a basin, and soak for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 20 days is 1 course of treatment. It can moisten skin, diminish inflammation and sterilize, supplement vitamins and minerals, and prevent and treat skin chlorosis, blackness and roughness, acne and scabies.

(4) Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine

For women with dysmenorrhea, we can try to stick to traditional Chinese medicine to soak feet to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea.

1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type

Its symptoms are abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, dark menstrual blood with blood clots. People with such symptoms should reconcile qi and blood, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Because women mainly live in the liver, the drugs chosen for foot bath are mainly drugs with foot-jueyin entering the liver meridian, and appropriate amount of menstrual vinegar is added, such as 30g of Green Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, 30g of Linderae Radix, 30g of Motherwort, Chuanxiong 10g, and safflower 10g. Add about two liters of water and about 50 ml of vinegar, boil it with strong fire, and fry it with low fire for 30 minutes. When the medicine is cooled to 50℃, pour the residue into a basin to soak feet. The amount of medicine in the basin should be immersed in the ankle joint. If the liquid medicine is insufficient, add appropriate amount of warm water. The feet keep moving in the medicine, so that the soles of the feet receive slight physical stimulation from the dregs for more than 30 minutes at a time.

2. Yang deficiency and cold excess type

Its symptoms are cold pain in the lower abdomen, less pain in hot compress and chills in hands and feet. The principle of warming channels and dispelling cold should be used to relieve pain. Because there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that the kidney governs the whole body yang, the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly those with insufficient yin entering the kidney meridian, and appropriate amount of salt water should be added, such as cinnamon, clove, linderae, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong each 15g, dried ginger, fennel and Evodia rutaecarpa each 6g, and a little salt can be decocted.

3. Deficiency of qi and blood

Its symptom is a dull pain in the lower abdomen during or after menstruation, and there will be slight pain when pressing the abdomen with your hand. The menstrual flow is small and pale, so it is necessary to replenish qi, nourish blood and regulate menstruation. Traditional Chinese medicine is called "spleen regulating blood", and the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly drugs that enter the Taiyin spleen meridian, and appropriate amount of sweet water can be added. For example, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Eucommiae Cortex, and Radix Astragali 15g can be used for foot bath, and appropriate amount of maltose and boiled water can be added.