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Soar feet for colds
Soaring your feet with a cold is a must! This is the opinion of our grandmothers, who are sure that a hot steam room for the legs, as well as inhalation over potatoes, is the first remedy for colds. Is it so? And how to properly soar your feet during a cold?
Soar feet for colds really useful, but only if you do it right. The point of the procedure is that hot water provides blood flow to the legs and outflow from the upper torso, which is more affected by the flu.
Thus, when we soar our legs, we significantly alleviate the condition of the respiratory tract, sinuses, and lungs.
But only if you soar your feet according to all the rules. The first of which says: it is absolutely impossible to soar your feet with a cold if you have a high fever, if you are pregnant or suffer from cardiovascular diseases. And also if you are hypertensive, or if you are going to go outside in the next few hours.
With a cold, you need to soar your legs “wisely”
A typical picture is that at the first sign of a cold, you pour hot water into a basin and dip your ankle-deep feet into it with pleasure. And then the first mistake! The procedure will be much more effective if you soar with a cold not only the feet, but also the lower legs. And for this it is better to use a deeper container.
The second mistake: when you start to soar your feet with a cold, you pour water as hot as you can tolerate. It is not right. It should be done like this: initially, the water in the container should be about 38 degrees, after 3-5 minutes add some hot water, bringing the temperature to 40-42 degrees. And hold your legs for another 5-10 minutes. After completing the procedure, put on warm socks and go to bed. And no going outside for the next 3-4 hours!
Soaring feet for colds is useful with herbs
You can often hear the advice that you should soar your feet with a cold with the addition of mustard. However, there is a more delicate alternative – add a decoction of medicinal herbs to the water: sage, chamomile, mint. For the sake of fairness, it’s worth saying that these additives have almost no effect on whether you soar your feet in an infusion of them or just sit over your pelvis without even unlacing your shoes.
For the legs, only hot water is important, but for your nose – namely, for your respiratory tract – it is very useful to breathe healing broths.
So we can safely say that when you soar your feet with a cold in water with the addition of medicinal herbs, you are essentially doing inhalation as well. And your “steam room” becomes twice as useful.