It is also a foot bath. Is there a difference between the water temperature of men soaking their feet and that of women soaking their feet?

The temperature of soaking feet should not be too hot or too cold, and should generally be kept at 38℃ ~ 43℃. If conditions permit, you can first put your feet in water of about 38℃, and then keep the water temperature by gradually heating the bath water to about 42℃. When taking a bath, the water usually overflows the ankle and often rubs it. However, diabetic patients should pay attention to that because the skin is not sensitive to external stimuli, water with too high temperature is easy to cause burns.

Chinese medicine believes that many important acupoints of the human body gather on the feet, which is where many meridians pass. Soaking feet with hot water can relax meridians, promote blood circulation and achieve the purpose of health care. People with different physiques can use traditional Chinese medicines with different effects when soaking their feet to help regulate their physiques and keep their bodies in balance. For example, people with cold hands and feet can add safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza and other medicinal materials when soaking their feet to improve blood deficiency. Situation; Hot and humid people will add heat-clearing herbs when taking a bath, which can promote blood circulation and detoxify.

They think that high temperature helps to promote the absorption of traditional Chinese medicine and blood circulation. This is not right, because about 40℃ is a more suitable temperature for people, and too high a temperature will burn the skin. In addition, if blood suddenly circulates, it will cause blood to gush out, causing discomfort and even failure, which will do great harm to the heart, especially to some patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The correct way is that the temperature of soaking feet will make people sweat a little. In addition, you can drink some warm water when soaking your feet, which can not only replenish water, but also let your body dissipate heat from the inside out and drive away the cold in your body.

All parts of human beings are a unified whole. Washing feet with cold water will not only cause severe contraction of blood vessels in the foot, but also change other parts that are not stimulated by cold water to varying degrees. It is observed that people's feet are affected by cold water. At first, the blood vessels contract reflexively, the blood flow decreases, and the temperature of nasal mucosa drops obviously. After a certain period of time, the blood vessels in the foot began to expand, and the temperature of the nasal mucosa also increased. A few minutes later, it became more serious, accompanied by runny nose and sneezing. If you wash your feet with warm water and gradually lower the water temperature, the above symptoms will not appear.