Is it better to soak your feet before or after taking a bath? What are the benefits?

In our lives, many people like to soak their feet before going to bed to relieve fatigue from a day's work. However, people are often hesitant about whether they should soak their feet before or after taking a bath. The following article will introduce it to you.

Is it better to soak your feet before or after taking a bath?

Take a shower first to warm up your whole body, then soak your feet to promote blood circulation and relieve discomfort. This will help you with sweating. It will promote smoother blood flow in peripheral blood vessels and reduce the burden on the heart. In fact, the benefits of soaking your feet are more than that. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are reflex areas and many acupoints on the feet. When people soak their feet in hot water, they will stimulate the acupoints and reflex areas, promote blood circulation in the feet and even the whole body, thereby speeding up the body's metabolism and playing a role in regulating the whole body.

Benefits of foot bath:

(1) Promote blood circulation. It has been said since ancient times that the feet are the second heart of the human body. From the perspective of health theory, the feet are farthest from the human heart and bear the heaviest burden. Therefore, this part of the body is most likely to cause poor blood circulation. Medical books record: "The feet of a person are like the roots of a tree. When a tree withers, the roots die first. When a person ages, the feet age first." Hot water soaking is an excellent method, especially for those who often feel cold hands and feet.

(2) Stimulate the acupuncture points, reflexology areas and meridians of the feet. From a medical perspective, the feet have reflexology areas and acupuncture points of various organs and meridians. Many people have had foot massages. When the masseur presses on our feet, we feel pain and soreness. This basically means that there is a problem with the corresponding reflexology area organs. Therefore, after we have a foot massage, we will feel relaxed. At the same time, there are 6 main meridians on the human foot, including the end points of the three yang meridians (bladder meridian, stomach meridian, gallbladder meridian) and the starting points of the three yin meridians (spleen meridian, liver meridian, kidney meridian), all of which are on the feet. Therefore, soaking the feet in hot water is equivalent to stimulating these six most important meridians.

(3) It has a good auxiliary effect in the treatment of many diseases. People often say that "rich people take tonic medicine, poor people soak their feet", which shows that Chinese medicine foot soaking has a great effect. Especially in modern society, with the extensive use of air conditioning and people's general love of eating cold food, there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body. Through Chinese medicine foot soaking, it can accelerate the expulsion of coldness from the body.