Old proven method of combating diseases: soar your legs. Does it help?

Since the days of our great-grandmothers, many methods of fighting the diseases have been invented. For example, put a plantain to the place of a cut, with a puffiness or bruise - a cabbage leaf, with a cold to breathe over boiled potatoes, and with a cold - soar your legs. Strangely enough, even with the terrible modern ecology and the organism weakened by it, these methods are still effective and help, if not radically, then in a complex with other ways.

So, for example, after returning home after a long winter walk, do not be lazy to do prophylaxis: take the time to soar your feet every time you feel even a slight malaise. Well, if the disease makes itself felt by a sore throat, a cough and a runny nose, then this procedure should become simply irreplaceable and compulsory.

What is the meaning of this therapy? How does it affect the body? The fact is that hot water stimulates blood flow. In this case, the blood circulates more in the lower part of the body, that is, in the legs, and the outflow occurs in the upper part. Accordingly, if we want to facilitate breathing (the work of the lungs, nasal sinuses and respiratory tract), then you need to soar your legs.

Contraindications and consequences if they are ignored

Most people wonder whether this procedure has contraindications, despite its harmlessness? For example, can you soar your feet at a temperature or other illnesses? Yes, there are contraindications, and their ignoring can lead to undesirable consequences.

For example, you can not soar your feet:

• At a temperature, because hot water increases it even more;
• During pregnancy - it can lead to premature contractions, bleeding;
• With cardiovascular diseases;
• With hypertension;
• Just before going out.

How to soar your feet

Legs need to soar "wisely". Prepare everything you need for the procedure and what you need after it: a basin with high sides (or a bucket), hot water, a kettle of boiling water, mustard powder or mustard (if these components are not allergic), a blanket, a towel, warm socks Better woolen).

You have to soar your feet, putting not only feet in the water, but also the ankles (at least partially). Do not pour boiling water and suffer: start with a temperature of about 37-38 degrees, and as you become accustomed pour boiling water from the kettle. Before starting the procedure, dilute mustard or powder in the water - this promotes better tissue warming and blood flow improvement. There is an opinion that you can soar your feet in the infusion of herbs, for example, chamomile, mint and sage. It is possible, but it will make your skin and feet softer and nothing more. Such a decoction is useful only when ingested in the form of tea with honey. But if you decide to add these herbs or essential oils to them in boiling water, cover yourself with a big towel or blanket over your head. Thus, you will also undergo an inhalation procedure, which will improve the healing effect. The duration of this procedure is 10-15 minutes.

After water procedures, your feet should be damped with a towel and put on warm socks prepared in advance . It is better to spend some time under a blanket with a cup of useful herbal tea with honey.