What is the best time for foot bath

What is the best time for foot bath

The best water temperature: generally, the temperature should be in 38℃～43℃. Water height should over the ankle. In addition, two feet should rub each other usually when you do foot bath.

21:00 for foot bath is good to nurse kidney- in Chinese Medicine, we think that the kidney is weak in 21:00, doing foot bath can increase the heat in the body so that blood vessels will be dilated, which is good to blood circulation.

Doing foot bath in the morning can make office workers full of energy

Foot bath in the morning is easy, water temperature is about 40℃, soak your foot in the water for 5-10 minutes. The threes fingers in the middle of your hands press the Yong Quan acupoint for one minute respectively and then massage the two fingers’ interval place. For keeping water temperature, can add some hot water in it, repeat 3-5 times.

The advantages of foot bath

First, improving blood circulation, foot, which is as important as heart. Foot is the farthest parts from heart, while the burden is the most heaviest. Therefore, this place is easy to cause to bad blood circulation. Especially for the people who always feel cold at hands and feet. Foot bath is a good way to improve this condition.

Second, stimulating acupoints, reflecting region and meridian. Many people experienced food therapy. When the skilled man press parts of our feet, we feel pain sometimes in some parts, which shows that there is problem in our viscera. So when we finished foot therapy, we would feel relax. In addition, there are six meridian in the foot, foot bath can stimulate them. Make them more smooth and active.

Third, it has good side functions for many disease treatments, it is said that rich man take expensive and nutrition food and poor man do foot bath usually. We can see that the function of food bath is great. Now, there are much cold-dampness in our body for the usage of air-condition and intake of cold food. Foot bath can discharge cold-dampness out of the body.

The people who experienced foot bath knows that you would feel cold in the knee when do foot bath, which shows that the cold-dampness is forced out by hot water and some chinese medicine. So if you have a cold, you didn’t need take drugs, you just need put your foot in hot water, with the sweat outflow, cold-dampness is pulled out too. For people with high blood pressure, long-term foot bath can improve the blood circulation in the end parts of limbs. Therefore, the blood pressure can be reduced gradually.

How to do foot bath?

First, you should choose a right bucket, deep wooden bucket is better. Deep refers to the height can over the whole shank. Why to choose wooden bucket? At first, it is easier to heat preservation, secondly, it is closer to nature. Chinese medicine theories: it can discharge toxins out of liver and kidney.

Secondly, how to identify the effects of foot bath.

Foot bath must use hot water, it is ok when you feel your back or your forehead has a little sweat. Pay attention: not lots of sweat. Sweat relates to heart, too much sweat will damage heart, a little sweat is ok.  Too long time is not good to your health.

Thirdly, if it should add chinese medicine in foot bath?

People who had experienced foot therapy know that foot bath is a must before massage, in addition, add into some chinese medicine powder. For whether put chinese medicine powder or not , it depends on your condition. If water is ok, you would not need add medicine powder in it, if on the condition that you have no sweat after 30minutes foot bath, so you should add it. The aim of adding medicine powder is activing blood and eliminating cold.