What are the advantages and disadvantages of foot soaking?

After entering the cold winter, many people like to soak their feet in hot water at night. It is said that doing so can relieve physical fatigue and improve sleep quality. So what are the benefits of soaking feet? Will soaking feet in hot water every day have adverse effects on the body? If you want to know more about this, let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of soaking feet.

What are the benefits of foot soaking

1. Keep healthy

Health care is one of the important benefits of foot soaking. Soaking feet in hot water can speed up blood circulation, promote lactic acid metabolism in the body, relieve fatigue, and it can also relax people's tense and anxious mood, allowing people to quickly enter a deep sleep state and prevent and relieve insomnia.

2. Prevent diseases

Disease prevention is also one of the important benefits of people insisting on foot soaking. When people soak their feet, adding an appropriate amount of safflower to the hot water can promote blood circulation in the body, prevent limb numbness, and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Adding an appropriate amount of moxa to the water for foot soaking can clear away heat and detoxify, reduce inflammation and relieve pain. It has a significant preventive effect on human tracheitis and pneumonia, as well as cough and asthma.

3. Treat diseases

In the cold winter, insist on soaking your feet in hot water to treat some common human diseases, especially those suffering from arteritis, menstrual abdominal pain and varicose veins. Insist on soaking your feet in hot water every night, the symptoms can be improved as soon as possible. Adding corresponding Chinese medicinal materials when soaking your feet can make its therapeutic effect even better.

Disadvantages of foot soaking

Under normal circumstances, soaking your feet in water of appropriate temperature is not harmful to the body, but if the water temperature is too high, it will increase the burden on the human body and easily cause insufficient blood supply to multiple organs. In addition, the soaking time in winter should not be too long. If the time is too long, it will speed up the local blood circulation, easily cause excessive cardiovascular load, and in severe cases, cause blood vessels to rupture and bleed.