What are the benefits and contraindications of ginger foot soaking?

2022-08-27

There are many benefits to soaking your feet before going to bed. It can dredge the meridians, improve blood circulation, and warm the body and ward off the cold. It can be said to be a comfortable health preservation method. If you add ginger to the foot soaking water, the health preservation effect can be doubled.

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How to soak feet with ginger?

From 7 to 9 pm in the evening, when the Qi and blood of the kidney meridian are the weakest, soaking the feet can replenish the Qi and blood. Take 15-30 grams of ginger, slice or flatten it, put it in a pot, add half a pot of water, cover the pot and boil it with hot water for about 10 minutes. After cooking, pour out all the ginger water, add an appropriate amount of cold water and adjust the temperature to about 40 ℃. When soaking your feet, the water should cover your ankles, and it is best to rub your feet while soaking. The time of soaking your feet should not be too long.

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The benefits of ginger foot soaking

Benefits 1. Reduce cold hands and feet

Ginger can ward off cold, and the cold hands and feet are mainly caused by the lack of blood supply to the end of the body. Ginger foot soaking, in which the medicinal ingredients to keep out the cold can penetrate into the capillaries of the feet with the help of the heat of hot water, so that the human body can absorb the corresponding medicinal ingredients to achieve the effect of keeping out the cold.

Benefits 2. Treating colds

Soak your feet in hot ginger water, preferably enough to reach your ankles. When soaking, you can add some salt and vinegar to the hot ginger water, and keep adding hot water until the feet turn red. This method has a significant effect on the treatment of wind-cold, cold, headache and cough.

Benefits 3. Improve sleep

Adding an appropriate amount of black vinegar to ginger feet can stimulate the acupuncture points on the soles of the feet and enhance the metabolism of various systems, thereby relaxing the human body, relieving fatigue, and improving sleep quality.

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Benefits 4. Treatment of rheumatism

Ginger has a special effect of expelling cold and expelling wind, and rheumatism patients insist on soaking their feet to effectively relieve symptoms. Bathing your feet in a wooden barrel over your calf can better relieve symptoms such as rheumatoid arthritis, and is most suitable for summer when the humidity is heavy.

Benefits 5. Delay aging

The kidneys are old and the people are old. Ginger soaks the feet to improve qi and blood, and maintain the kidneys, which can effectively delay aging and prolong life.

Benefits 6. Lowering blood pressure

When blood pressure rises, soak your feet in hot ginger water for about 15 minutes. Soaking your feet in hot ginger water can reflexively cause blood vessels to dilate and blood pressure to drop.

Benefits 7. Maintaining the kidneys

Ginger soaking feet can improve blood supply, and combined with kidney-tonifying ingredients can play a good role in warming the kidneys and nourishing the kidneys.

Benefits 8, Removing foot odor

Soak the feet in hot ginger water, add some salt and vinegar when soaking, soak for about 15 minutes, wipe dry, add some talcum powder, the odor can be eliminated.

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What precautions should be taken when soaking feet in winter?

1. Pay attention to the water temperature when soaking feet in diabetes

Because diabetic feet are very sensitive to water temperature, it is easy to cause lesions of nerve endings. If the water temperature is too high, it is easy to burn the feet.

2. Children during development try not to soak their feet

Be sure to pay attention to the water temperature when soaking your child's feet. If the water temperature is too high, it will lead to flat feet. Because the frequent use of hot foot baths will make the plantar ligaments loose and deformed.

3. When the feet are frostbitten, you can't use too hot water to soak your feet

When the feet are frostbitten, they are in a rigid state. If the feet are scalded with hot water, the frozen feet will be aggravated, and even the muscles and bones will be peeled off.

4. Elderly people should be careful when they soak their feet

More blood will flow to the lower extremities when soaking the feet. For the weaker elderly, using hot water to soak the feet may cause insufficient blood supply to the brain, causing dizziness or fainting. When symptoms of dizziness and chest tightness appear, stop soaking your feet quickly and lie down in bed to rest.