Foot bath can cure all diseases? Six benefits of foot bath in salt water

Recently, a saying has been circulating among friends that soaking your feet in salt water can cure all diseases. Is this really true? According to Chinese medicine experts, soaking your feet in salt water does have the effect of curing diseases, but it is impossible to cure all diseases. So, what are the benefits of soaking your feet in salt water?

1. Soaking your feet in salt water can cure beriberi.

This is because salt has a good disinfecting and sterilizing effect. If you put salt into hot water and use the heat in the water, the skin can better absorb the disinfecting and sterilizing components of the salt water, and the effect of soaking feet in salt water to treat foot odor can be achieved.

2. Soaking your feet in salt water can clean your feet.

Because of the disinfection and sterilization effect of salt, salt water has a strong cleaning ability, and you can clean your feet by soaking them in salt water.

3. Soaking your feet in salt water can exfoliate.

Because salt has an exfoliating effect, if you put salt in hot water and soak your feet, you can use the heat in the hot water to enhance the exfoliating effect.

4. Soaking your feet in salt water can nourish the kidneys and resist aging.

Because our feet are the farthest from the heart, the blood supply is very small. Soaking feet in salt water can allow the effective ingredients of salt water to enter the kidneys and heart and promote blood circulation, thus achieving the benefits of nourishing the kidneys and anti-aging.

5. Soaking your feet in salt water can cure colds.

Soaking your feet in salt water can promote blood circulation and remove the cold from your feet, thus achieving the effect of treating colds.

6. Soaking your feet in salt water can help you sleep and fight aging.

Washing your feet regularly with salt water and massaging acupoints such as Yongquan can promote local blood circulation, help you sleep and fight aging, treat colds, and even enhance memory and relax your mind.