Enjoy hot bath, prevent disease, health and fitness

After a busy day, it’s a pleasant thing to enjoy a hot bath and say goodbye to exhaustion. In fact, bathing is not just a trivial matter of cleaning the body. It is also a kind of exercise, hiding many tips for health and illness. If you take a lot of thoughts in the bath, you can achieve the effect of disease prevention and health.

1, 30 minutes before meals, rushed to the stomach, rushed for 5 seconds to rest for 1 minute, enhance appetite, relieve stomach ulcers.

Su Yunming, a professor at Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that people with poor appetite and loss of appetite can consciously take a bath 30 minutes before meals, stimulate the stomach with hot water, and then warm the body, then use warm water to spray water around the chest. 5 seconds rest for 1 minute, repeat 5 times; if there is a bathtub, you can soak in hot water for a while, while breathing abdominally, inhale from the nose, let the abdomen bulge, then exhale from the mouth, then use a slightly warm Water flushes the abdomen, and this alternating stimulation promotes gastric secretion and increases appetite. For patients with hyperacidity and gastric ulcer, soak in hot water for 3-4 minutes to control gastric acid secretion.

Xiao Bian reminds: Before eating, the stomach is only suitable for people with loss of appetite. Some people will have hypoglycemia when they take a bath on an empty stomach. It is prone to syncope. Please choose the therapy carefully.

2, 40 degrees of hot water rinse the key parts for 10 minutes, can gradually open the blood stasis.

For cold, blood stasis caused by chronic muscle damage, local stiffness and other problems, you can add a few more actions in the bath. Zhang Hude, professor of health room at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told reporters: "In the shower, spray 40 degrees of hot water on the painful part for about 10 minutes, especially for the painful parts such as the head, shoulders and waist. Turning back and forth, left and right, can gradually open blood stasis and promote blood circulation. People who have lifted their waist due to heavy lifting or impact, should not take a bath immediately after injury, otherwise it will aggravate the pain. After pain relief, at 40 degrees Soaking in hot water for 10-20 minutes will help to reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Low back pain caused by insufficient kidney gas can be washed back and forth in the waist with hot water, and it can be relieved by properly doing lumbar flexion and extension exercises."

3. Breathe in the mouth while taking a bath to relieve constipation.

Many people are prone to symptoms of functional constipation every time the season changes and the work is exhausted. Zhang Hude said that in addition to daily life conditioning, you can massage the palm in the clockwise direction while taking a bath. At the same time, the abdomen will breathe in a large mouth and focus on the abdomen, which can improve blood flow, strengthen blood circulation, and relieve Constipation and the effect of preventing acne. For patients with neuropathic constipation, it can be washed with 40 degrees of hot water for about 3 minutes along the intestine, and then washed with 25 degrees of warm water for 10 seconds, repeated about 5 times, which can strengthen the peristalsis of the large intestine.

4, add ginger in the hot water, remove the cold.

Many women and people with cold body often get cold, their hands and feet are cold and numb, and even in summer. Yang Li, a professor of health care at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, said that from the point of view of Chinese medicine, this is mostly due to poor blood flow and insufficient blood supply due to qi deficiency and blood deficiency. This type of group can take more bubbles when they have time, and add ginger to the hot water to promote blood circulation and warm the body. In the shower, you can use 40 degrees of hot water to wash the shoulders and below the knees, wash the shoulders to do the up and down movements and foot movements, and then fully warm up, then use cold water for 10 seconds. Repeated 5 times, cold water and hot water alternately shower, the blood vessels continue to expand and contract as cold and heat, in order to achieve the purpose of smooth blood. However, the elderly and children with weak constitution should try to avoid alternating hot and cold.