Can women soak their feet during menstruation?

Foot soaking is a good health care method, and it has many benefits to human health, such as relieving fatigue, relaxing muscles and promoting blood circulation, and keeping warm. However, many female friends are more worried and concerned about whether foot soaking during menstruation will affect their health or the normality of menstruation. In fact, we still need to have a correct understanding of this issue. So, can women soak their feet during menstruation?

Women should not use Chinese medicine to soak their feet during menstruation

The problems that women encounter during their menstrual period are more complicated. If you cannot identify the cause and use Chinese medicine to soak your feet, it will not only fail to have a soothing effect, but may also aggravate symptoms such as dysmenorrhea. Therefore, if women want to use Chinese medicine foot bathing to treat menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea, it is best to consult a doctor and take the appropriate medication according to their own situation.

Benefits of correct foot bathing for women during menstruation:

1. Adjust blood pressure

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the human body's internal organs have corresponding projections on the feet. The feet are the starting point of the three yin meridians of the foot and the ending point of the three yang meridians of the foot. There are more than sixty acupoints below the ankle joint.

Using Chinese medicine foot bath to treat hypertension can effectively prevent the toxic and side effects of drugs, and the effect is good. Since patients with hypertension need to take medication for a long time, in order to reduce the hormonal stimulation of drugs to the human body, it is generally better to use external Chinese medicine.

2. Improve blood circulation

Foot bath can improve blood circulation in the feet. The warm effect of water can dilate blood vessels in the feet, increase skin temperature, and thus promote blood circulation in the feet and throughout the body. Someone has done a test and found that if a healthy person soaks his feet in 40℃-45℃ warm water for 30-40 minutes, the blood flow in his whole body will increase by 10-13 times for women.

3. Promote metabolism

Foot bath can promote blood circulation in the feet and the whole body. Due to the increase in blood circulation, it can regulate the functions of various endocrine glands and prompt them to secrete various hormones, such as thyroid hormones secreted by the thyroid gland and adrenaline secreted by the adrenal glands. These hormones can promote metabolism.

4. Eliminate fatigue

The biggest function of foot bath is to eliminate fatigue. The ancients have long concluded from practice that hot water foot bath can eliminate fatigue.

Through the above introduction, everyone is very clear about whether women can soak their feet during menstruation. It can be seen that feet can be soaked during menstruation, which can promote metabolism and the excretion of toxins in the body. However, you cannot use Chinese medicine to soak your feet casually, as this will indeed have a certain impact on menstruation. Of course, the soaking time should not be too long.