Can I have a pedicure during menstruation?

Nowadays, the awareness of health preservation can be said to have penetrated into our lives. There are detailed plans from daily health-preserving menus to which days of each month you need to massage and care for your body. Foot massage is also a way of maintaining health. For people who work for a long time, foot massage can be a good way to relax themselves and relax themselves from the feet. You cannot eat cold food during menstruation, but can you do health-preserving foot massage during menstruation?

It is recommended that you do not do a pedicure during your menstrual period.

In traditional Chinese medicine culture, foot bath therapy has a long history. It originated in ancient my country and is the accumulation of knowledge and experience of people in long-term social practice. It has a historical tradition of more than 3,000 years. The ancients once had many classic records and descriptions of foot bathing: "Washing feet in spring can raise yang and strengthen the body; washing feet in summer can remove heat and dampness; washing feet in autumn can moisten the lungs and intestines; washing feet in winter can warm the dantian." Su Dongpo said: "The effect of hot foot bathing is not very noticeable at first, but after accumulating for more than a hundred days, the function is immeasurable, and its effect is a hundred times better than taking medicine." He also wrote in a poem: "The host advised me to wash my feet before sleeping, and I no longer heard the bells and drums when I fell into bed." Lu You said: "It is really a pleasure to wash my feet and go to bed, and my young grandson is gradually growing up and can understand the hot water." The founder of external treatment in the Qing Dynasty said in "Theoretical Parallel Prose": "Wash your feet before lying down. The three yin meridians all originate from the feet, and the cold enters from the soles of the feet. The reason for washing is to warm the yin and repel the cold."

Effects

Improve circulation

Blood flows through the circulatory system consisting of the heart and blood vessels, transporting nutrients and excreting waste. Promoting blood circulation is essential to the health of the body. Every healthy person has a pair of feet, but have you ever thought about how much pressure the feet are under? With every step, a 68 kg person's feet will bear 260 kg of pressure. On average, your feet are subjected to 2.6 million kilograms of pressure every day. This figure is roughly equivalent to the pressure exerted by 40,000 people stepping on your shoes.

The feet are farthest from the heart in the human body. If the peripheral circulation in the feet is obstructed, it can easily lead to poor blood circulation, which in turn leads to poor metabolism and decreased function of tissues and organs throughout the body. Foot massage can smooth the blood circulation in the feet, promote blood circulation throughout the body, accelerate the body's metabolism, replenish nutrition, and make your body healthy and function normally.

Regulate nerves

The nervous system is the dominant regulatory organ in the body. Nervous tissue is distributed throughout the human body and plays an extremely important role in controlling and regulating body activities. The important and complex physiological functions of nervous tissue are all completed through reflex activities, and the basis for completing this activity is neurons.

Through reflex activity, neurons ensure the internal unity of the body and enable the functional activities of various organs to better adapt to changes in the external environment.

The foot is rich in nerve tissue. By effectively stimulating the reflex zones on the soles of the feet, the functions of the corresponding tissues and organs can be regulated, making normal ones stronger and abnormal ones improved and restored.

Dredging the meridians and activating blood circulation

Meridians have the function of connecting internal organs and limbs. The human body's internal organs, limbs, five senses, tendons, bones, skin and flesh, and other tissues and organs mainly rely on the meridian system for communication to make the body coordinated and unified.

Meridians have the functions of circulating qi and blood, nourishing the whole body, resisting external pathogens, and protecting the body. Meridians belong to the internal organs and the limbs externally. They communicate between the internal organs and the body surface, connecting the internal organs and tissues of the human body into an organic whole.

Among the twelve meridians in the human body, six meridians reach the feet, namely the three yin meridians of the foot (the spleen meridian of the foot Taiyin, the liver meridian of the foot Jueyin, and the kidney meridian of the foot Shaoyin) and the three yang meridians of the foot (the stomach meridian of the foot Yangming, the gallbladder meridian of the foot Shaoyang, and the bladder meridian of the foot Taiyang). Through foot scraping and massage therapy, the meridians can be dredged, pain can be relieved, the functions of the internal organs of the human body can be regulated and restored, and the functions of the disordered and diseased internal organs can be repaired and adjusted, thereby achieving recovery.