Wild wormwood foot bath effect and function

Mugwort is indeed a magical thing. We all know that there is a custom of decorating mugwort on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mugwort can be used as a decoration. Mugwort and glutinous rice flour can also be mixed to make delicious mugwort cakes, and mugwort now becomes an ingredient. But today we are talking about the benefits and effects of soaking your feet in mugwort. I believe you have tried it before or heard about it. So let’s take a look at what are the benefits of soaking your feet in mugwort?

The effects and benefits of wormwood foot bath

Treating colds

When you catch a cold, have a runny nose, a sore throat, or have a fever, you can soak your feet in moxa leaf water until you sweat.

If you feel that simply soaking your feet in hot water is not effective enough, you can drink it with brown sugar ginger water. Adding onion roots to brown sugar ginger water can help reduce fever, and adding garlic can cure cough. You can drink it while soaking your feet in hot water, and drink a large cup until you feel your body sweating a little. In addition, you need to drink more boiled water during the day, which can speed up the excretion of viruses.

Dispel cold

As the saying goes, "Cold starts from the soles of the feet." Cold feet will cause poor blood circulation, causing physical discomfort.

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves has the effect of dispelling cold. Washing your feet with warm water every day will promote blood circulation and drive away the cold and dampness in the body. What's more, mugwort leaves will open up the twelve meridians and regulate yin and yang.

I believe that many female friends have cold hands and feet, so you can try soaking your feet in mugwort. Once the blood circulation system of the whole body is unblocked, the condition of cold hands and feet will also improve. In addition to soaking feet in mugwort, if you have the conditions, you can also try moxa stick fumigation, which also has the effect of dispelling cold, and the effect is faster.

Eliminate heat and cold

It can treat oral ulcers, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other recurrent diseases of the head and face that are related to deficiency heat and cold fire.

If you have the symptoms mentioned above, you can boil a small amount of wormwood in water, pour the water out of the pot after about fifteen minutes, and wait for the temperature to drop to a suitable temperature before starting to soak your feet in hot water. The time for soaking feet in hot water should not be too long, and the temperature should not be too high. Avoid sweating too much and causing dizziness due to rapid heartbeat. Soaking feet for about three days will significantly improve the condition.

Treat eczema and itchy skin

Mugwort leaves have an inhibitory effect on a variety of highly pathogenic fungi, and through the wind, they promote blood circulation and can force the summer heat and dampness out of the body.

However, ringworm, eczema and itchy skin are mostly caused by the experience of summer heat and dampness, which accumulate in the skin, block the meridians, stagnate qi and blood, and cause bacterial infection. Symptoms can be seen in erosion, exudate, or the appearance of pustules.

Internal accumulation of fire and the presence of cold pathogens can both cause this disease. In severe cases, there will be fever, headache, excessive heat damaging body fluids, and dry throat and mouth.

Mugwort leaves have a significant inhibitory effect on bacteria, can effectively remove harmful bacteria on the skin surface and in the pores of the skin, and regulate the balance of endocrine system.

Poria cocos has a pungent and cool effect. It also has antiviral, anti-allergic and immune-enhancing effects, and has obvious effects of clearing away heat, removing fire and removing dampness.

You can soak for about 20 minutes a day. The time should not be too long, and it will not have a great effect if the time is too short.

How to soak your feet with mugwort

Pepper and mugwort water

Just add mugwort and peppercorns to boiling water. Mugwort and pepper can eliminate sweaty feet, stinky feet, athlete's foot and eczema.

Simple Wormwood Water

Prepare 50 grams of fresh wormwood leaves in advance, or 30 grams of dried wormwood, then add 1500 ml of water and bring to a boil. Boil the water for about 15 minutes, remove the mugwort leaves and pour the water in.

Rose and Wormwood Water

Add rose to the base of simple wormwood water. Wormwood and rose can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness or congestion of hands and feet.

Ginger slices and mugwort water

Simply add ginger slices to wormwood water. Wormwood and ginger slices can treat colds, bone and joint diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

Artemisia argyi salt water

Simply add salt to the base of wormwood water. Adding salt to wormwood can treat fire in the upper part of the body, frequent eye fire, toothache, sore throat, irritability, upper fire and lower cold, and swelling of the feet and legs.

Common problems with mugwort foot bath

The frequency cannot be too much

The frequency of soaking feet in mugwort leaves should not be too much. After the condition has improved, you can no longer soak your feet. You can also not soak your feet in mugwort leaves every day. Many people have seen that soaking feet in mugwort leaves has many benefits, so they often do it, almost every day. In fact, this is an incorrect method. Soaking feet in moxa leaves frequently can easily lead to false heat and cold fire, which can cause insufficient blood supply to the upper part of the human body, such as the face, and easily cause dizziness and headaches, and the temperament will become more and more manic.

Soak your feet after meals

The best time to soak your feet in moxa leaves is half an hour after dinner every day. This is when the effect of soaking your feet in hot water is best.

Yin deficiency and blood heat are not suitable

For patients with yin deficiency and blood heat, it is best not to use this kind of hot water foot bath method, which will not only fail to make people healthy, but will cause harm.

Summary: Soaking your feet in mugwort has many benefits. It can not only dispel cold and warm the body, and remove the body's internal heat, but also treat colds and skin itching. If you have the opportunity to go to a small village, don't forget to see if there is any mugwort you can cut and take back. Although soaking your feet in mugwort has many benefits, if you have yin deficiency and blood heat, remember not to soak your feet in mugwort. I hope this article can help everyone!