Have you ever wondered what causes these two unpleasant complaints? It is unlikely that you would be troubled with them if you saw to it that your vascular system, particularly the veins, were kept free from congestion. But if you do suffer, hot and cold foot baths can help. Begin by immersing your feet in hot water for several minutes, then place them in cold water and keep them there for the equivalent number of seconds; in other words, if you soak your feet for two or three minutes in hot water, leave them for only two or three seconds in the cold water. This procedure may be repeated 6-8 times at a session. Finish off with cold water, rub your feet vigorously with a towel and then apply a little oil (preferably St John’s wort oil), if you like. This treatment will soon bring the circulation back to normal.
A much older but less known method of improving the circulation is that of walking barefoot in the snow. If your house or apartment has a veranda which becomes covered with snow in winter, you have the ideal location for this. Incidentally, this is a similar treatment to treading cold water, a form of hydrotherapy connected with the Kneipp method (see page 334). To start with, practise snow-walking for ten seconds, then thirty seconds, gradually building up to 2-3 minutes. However, a word of caution is called for here. Take care not to do this to the point where you start to feel chilled. After completing the exercise, and without
drying your feet, go back inside to your warm bed.
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