Into the winter cold weather, many people will soak their feet to drive away the cold, and relieve the tiredness of the whole day. Feet are known as the second heart of the human body, when hot water soaking feet, can promote blood circulation, endocrine system, enhance the function of human organs, to prevent and cure disease health effects. Although winter foot bath can get rid of cold and strong body, but foot bath is also a good idea, not everyone is suitable. The benefits of winter foot bath 1, promote blood circulation in the soles of the feet. The soles of the feet are at the bottom of the body. In winter, the circulation is not very sufficient, soaking the feet is conducive to blood circulation, take away the body’s waste, at the same time, can also supply nutrients, soaking the feet can be through the nerve reflexes to treat the disease. To adjust the foot soak according to the condition of the material, each foot soak time is best for half an hour. 2, promote metabolism. Soaking feet can make the body circulation strengthen, so that blood delivery to the end of the foot. This can reduce the incidence of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke and other high-risk diseases. But be careful that the temperature of the water is hot enough, but not scalding, at about 45 degrees Celsius. 3, can relieve headaches. Dip your feet into hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius for about 15 to 20 minutes, the headache will be relieved. This is due to the expansion of blood vessels in the feet, blood flow from the head to the feet, can relatively reduce brain congestion, and ultimately relieve headaches. 4, treatment of some diseases. Regular adherence to hot water foot soaking can not only treat gastrointestinal diseases, rheumatism, insomnia and other diseases, but also paraplegia, traumatic brain injury, lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, stroke, kidney disease, diabetes and other major diseases have a certain therapeutic effect. 5, can help reduce fever. For cold fever, hot water foot soak is favorable to reduce fever. So what do you need to pay attention to in winter soaking feet? 1, the stomach is too full or very hungry, do not soak your feet. Because the foot will affect the blood supply of the stomach, this time to soak the feet of the stomach is more harmful. 2, do not go to bed immediately after soaking feet, to take advantage of the heat of the feet, rub the soles of the feet, to be relieved by the heat of the whole body before going to sleep. 3, diabetic patients should pay special attention to the water temperature, because these patients peripheral nerves can not normally perceive the external temperature, easy to be scalded, which triggered very serious consequences. 4, foot fungus patients should be careful of infection, people with foot fungus, the condition is serious to blisters, it is not appropriate to use hot water to soak the feet, because it is easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, skin disease, trauma or skin burns are not easy to soak feet. 5, the elderly soak feet do not too long, soak feet for too long will trigger sweating, panic and other symptoms. Pay attention to the water temperature and time when soaking feet Soak feet in a wooden basin or electric footbath is good. The height should be more than 20 centimeters (not over the ankle), the width to be able to accommodate both feet can be. In addition, the control of water temperature and time is the key. In the control of water temperature, 40 ℃ -45 ℃ is appropriate. Too high a temperature is prone to damage the sebaceous membrane on the surface of the foot skin, leaving the stratum corneum dry or even cracked. Diabetics are best measured with a thermometer. Time is best not more than 30 minutes, because foot bath will accelerate the body’s blood circulation and heart rate, too long will increase the burden on the heart. From the Chinese medicine point of view, easy to fire hot body, Yin deficiency fire people, such as the heart of the hands and feet are always hot people, also do not recommend foot soaking, otherwise it will aggravate the fire, injuries and exhaustion of qi, the loss is not worth it. In addition, there are two categories of people to pay attention to. The first is pregnant women. Pregnant women should not soak their feet, because hot water stimulates blood circulation, may lead to uterine hypoxia and ischemia, signs of miscarriage. The second is that infants and young children do not have to soak their feet. Infants and young children do not feel the same temperature as adults, adults feel that the water temperature is slightly hot, for the child is already very hot. But they are not very good at expressing themselves, so it is easy to burn the tender skin. Children are ‘pure yang body’, itself easy to heat, fire, not afraid of cold. If they then soak their feet in hotter water and sweat, they will heat up. Soak your feet according to their own characteristics of the appropriate amount of Chinese herbs can be twice the result with half the effort, such as: fear of cold, easy to cold hands and feet can use ginger water to soak their feet; cinnamon foot soak is due to kidney disease caused by swelling has a better effect on relief. Middle-aged and elderly people with bad knees, it is recommended that hot compresses on the knees at the same time as the foot soak can dispel wind and cold and relieve rheumatism and bone pain. But it is best to add under the guidance of a professional doctor.