Effective Home Remedies For Cold Feet

Effective Home Remedies For Cold Feet 

Warm Oil Massage
Massaging your feet is a simple and therapeutic way to restore warmth. It stimulates blood flow to your extremities. Plus, regular foot massage will help keep your feet healthy and free from many kinds of foot problems.

Warm some olive, coconut or sesame oil in the microwave for a few seconds.
Apply this warm oil on one of your cold feet.
Use gentle but firm pressure with your fingers to massage from toe to ankle for 10 minutes.
Repeat with the other foot.
After the massage, put on cotton socks.
Do this daily before going to bed and, if needed, once again during the day.

Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy is one of the simplest options that you can try at home to restore warmth to your feet. Hydrotherapy utilizes both cold and warm water soaks. The warm water soak helps improve circulation, while the cold water soak helps reduce symptoms.

Fill 2 foot basins – one with cold water and the other with warm water.
Sit in a comfortable position, and soak your feet in cold water for 2 minutes.
Then, switch to the warm water basin for 1 minute.
Continue alternating between the two basins for 15 to 20 minutes.
Pat dry immediately and put on warm socks.
Repeat a few times daily until you get relief.

Foot Exercises
Exercising your feet is essential to keep the blood flowing continuously and keep your feet warm. Foot exercises also help strengthen blood vessels.

Stand up straight on the tips of your toes for 1 minute, then slowly come down on your heels. Repeat the procedure for 10 minutes.
While seated, rotate each foot clockwise and then counter-clockwise at the ankle joint 10 to 20 times.
Walk alternately on your toes and then your heels for 10 to 15 minutes.
Use your toes to pick up a piece of cloth or some other object from the floor several times.
Perform any of these exercises to restore warmth when you feel your feet getting cold.

Water Soak For Cold Feet
Take two basins; fill one with hot water and the other with cold water.Place the basins next to each other. Sit in a comfortable position and soak your feet first in cold water for 2 minutes; next, put your feet in the basin of hot water for not more than one minute. Again soak your feet in cold water for 2 minutes. Keep repeating the pattern for 20 minutes. Alternating between cold water and hot water soak will help improve the blood circulation to your feet.

Walk Barefoot
This is the simplest way of treating cold feet. All you have to do is get up really early in the morning and find a patch of clean grass where you can walk. Walk barefoot on the grass for around 5-7 minutes every day. It will increase the blood circulation to your feet. This method is also known to improve eye sight. You can even walk barefoot on the first snow of the season.

Epsom Salt
Add Epsom salt to a warm water soak for the feet, which can help treat coldness. It is important that you don’t immerse the feet in hot water, which can worsen your condition.

Promote Circulation in Feet
There are plenty of ways to encourage better circulation in the feet. Stand on your toes for a couple of minutes and then quickly come back down to your heels. You can also rotate each foot (from your ankles) clockwise and then counter clockwise. Repeat this exercise until your blood tingles through your feet and you feel a warming sensation.

Lavender
People who have access to sprigs of fresh lavender in their garden may add to bathwater to treat cold feet. Steep ½ pound of the flowers in cold water overnight. The next day, simmer the plants gently in a pot while covered. Strain the contents, and add the flowers to a bath filled with lukewarm water. Soak your feet in the solution to promote relaxing circulation.