Can I drink mugwort water every day?

Mugwort has great health-care functions. Drinking mugwort soaked in water can help reduce inflammation, kill bacteria and fight viruses, regulate the stomach and intestines, and enhance human immunity. Therefore, many people usually drink mugwort leaves in water. After all, mugwort has medicinal value. If you drink it frequently, you may worry that it will cause harm to your body. So, can we drink mugwort water every day? Let’s take a look below.

It is not recommended to drink it every day.

Mugwort has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain. Drinking mugwort boiled in water can improve symptoms such as bloody stools, irregular menstruation, uterine cold and infertility. It is suitable for people with cold blood and cold blood, such as fear of cold, cold hands and feet, etc. However, it should be noted that those with deficiency blood and heat should take it with caution, and those with healthy constitutions should not take it for a long time to avoid causing physical discomfort.

The effect of drinking mugwort water on women

First, dispel wind and dampness

One of the great functions of mugwort is to dispel wind and dampness, especially the dog days of summer is the best time to dehumidify. Drinking mugwort water properly can help prevent moisture and rheumatic factors from running rampant in the body, and can improve the harm caused to women's bodies by excessive dampness. After all, heavy moisture can cause great harm to the body, causing rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases such as damp-heat jaundice.

Second, sterilization and itching

Another obvious effect of mugwort is to relieve itching. The structure of the female body is relatively special, and it is easy for bacteria and inflammation to breed in the body. Drinking mugwort water properly can improve this situation. Of course, for skin inflammation, you can also improve it by directly applying mugwort water.

Third, activate blood circulation

Due to physical reasons, women are prone to uterine coldness, and their blood circulation is easily affected. Drinking mugwort water can help improve physical fitness and enhance the body's resistance to cold. If you combine drinking mugwort water with soaking your feet, the effect of dispelling cold and activating blood circulation will be better, and it will have a direct effect on improving women's physical fitness.

Drinking mugwort water has many benefits for women. In addition, mugwort is effective in treating many gynecological diseases, especially vaginitis, vulvar itching and dysmenorrhea:

Vaginitis

The method of using mugwort to treat vaginitis is also extremely simple. You can boil it in water for fifteen minutes, and then use the water vapor to fumigate the vaginal area. After persisting for a period of time, you will see good results.

Vulvar itching

Vulvar itching is a very common phenomenon in women. After preparing the mugwort leaves, prepare a certain amount of cnidium monnieri, Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Phellodendron chinense. After decocting them in water, apply the boiled water to the vulva. In addition to treating vulvar itching, it is also very effective in improving eczema.

Dysmenorrhea

Dysmenorrhea is a concern for many women of childbearing age, but in fact most cases of dysmenorrhea are caused by uterine cold. If you want to improve this phenomenon, you can use mugwort to drive away the cold, which can naturally improve dysmenorrhea. In this case, soaking your feet in mugwort more often is very effective.

Mugwort has great benefits for the human body, but not everyone can use it. First of all, women with yin deficiency and blood heat should use it with caution, because mugwort itself is warm. Whether drinking mugwort water or soaking your feet, it is prohibited. The main reason for people suffering from Yin deficiency and blood heat is insufficient kidney Yin, which causes the water in the body to be unable to restrain the fire in the body, resulting in increasingly serious heart fire. The typical symptoms are generally irritability, insomnia, and mouth sores. Therefore, this type of people is best to say goodbye to moxibustion.