Do you know that soaking your feet in salt water can help men strengthen their kidneys?

Nowadays, most people who work in offices have poor blood circulation in their feet due to their laziness for exercise, so they soak their feet in a bath at night to relieve the symptom. There are many benefits to soaking feet, and I heard that it can also nourish the kidneys. Is this true?

Benefit 1: Nourishing the kidneys and anti-aging

Soaking your feet in salt water can promote blood circulation, allowing the effective ingredients in salt water to enter the kidneys and heart, thereby achieving the effect of nourishing the kidneys. Secondly, soaking your feet in salt water can remove the coldness of the feet. If you add pebbles to rub your feet, the effect can be enhanced, promoting the circulation of the human body, helping sleep and anti-aging, and can also treat colds, and even enhance memory and relax the mind.

Benefit 2: Remove beriberi and clean your feet

Because salt has a good antiseptic and sterilizing effect, salt water has a good antiseptic and sterilizing effect. Soaking your feet in salt water can clean your feet. Soaking your feet in salt water can exfoliate. Because salt has an exfoliating effect, putting salt in hot water for foot soaking can enhance the exfoliating effect by using the heat in the hot water.

Benefit 3: Reduce internal heat and strengthen physical fitness

Salt has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying. People who are prone to getting angry and have a hot constitution can try this method.

Although soaking your feet in salt water has many benefits, it also has some requirements. Let's take a look at what the requirements are!

Tip 1: Don’t soak your feet for too long

The foot soaking time should not be too long, 15-30 minutes is appropriate. When soaking your feet, the blood circulation in the feet is accelerated, causing the heart rate to be faster than usual. Therefore, if the soaking time is too long, it will cause the heart to be burdened. It is easy to have some complications, such as dizziness and fainting.

Tip 2: People with wounds or blisters on their feet should not soak their feet

If you have a wound, it will cause infection, which will cause pain. You should wait until the wound heals before soaking.

Tip 3: It is not advisable to soak your feet when you are too full or too hungry

Soaking your feet when you are overfull, over-starved or eating will speed up blood circulation throughout the body, making you dizzy and uncomfortable. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, as it will affect the blood supply to the stomach.

Warm reminder: Although soaking your feet in salt water has many benefits, you can't soak them often. Just soaking them occasionally is enough. If you do a few minutes of foot massage after soaking your feet, it will be better for the body's blood circulation and further regulate the internal organs. After soaking your feet, it is recommended not to do other activities and go to sleep after a few minutes, which will have a better kidney-tonifying effect.