? It is made of leaves of Artemisia argyi, which has been used for three years in the Dragon Boat Festival, by removing impurities and crushing.
2. Features
? It is mild in nature, bitter in taste, nontoxic and pure in yang, and has the effects of dredging the twelve meridians, restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage.
3. The principle of foot bath health care
The five internal organs of the human body have corresponding projections on the feet. There are 12 meridians connecting human organs, 6 of which originate from the foot, which is the beginning of the foot's three yin and the end of the foot's three yang. There are more than 60 acupoints on the feet to communicate with the internal and external environment. Modern medicine believes that the foot is the "second heart" of the human body, and there are countless nerve endings in the foot closely connected with the brain, which is closely related to human health.
On the one hand, due to the warming effect and the drug effect, the blood circulation can be accelerated, and the blood of lower limbs and viscera can also be added to the systemic circulation, so that toxins and wastes in the human body can be excreted through metabolism. By stimulating these acupoints, the circulation of qi and blood can be promoted, the function of viscera can be adjusted, and the meridians of the whole body can be relaxed, so as to achieve the purposes of eliminating diseases and pathogens, benefiting qi and removing blood stasis, and nourishing vitality.
4. efficacy
(1) Improve blood circulation, prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes.
(2) Improving sleep can make the quality of sleep reach the level of teenagers, and sleep sweetly, easily and lightly.
(3) Stabilizing blood pressure can make 67% hypertensive patients stop taking antihypertensive drugs or reduce the dosage, thus reducing vascular fragility.
(4) One hour after the detoxification bath, a large number of metabolites in the body, such as lactic acid crystals, creatinine acid, uric acid, etc., are excreted with urine, which is a real detoxification. After bathing, the body is relaxed and the expression is happy.
(5) It has obvious therapeutic effect on dysmenorrhea, tepid hands and feet, gynecological inflammation and numbness and pain in waist and legs.
(6) It can obviously improve and enhance male sexual function.
(7) scavenging free radicals, anti-aging and beautifying.
(8) Increasing the blood supply and oxygen supply to the brain is meticulous and sufficient, which is beneficial to learning and memory.
(9) Enhance immunity and prevent colds.
(10) has the effects of regulating gastrointestinal function and treating constipation.
(1 1) Expelling wind and dampness and benefiting joints.
(12) Treating colds
? You can soak your feet with mugwort when you have a cold, runny nose, sore throat, sore body or fever. If you want to soak your body and sweat, you must also drink ginger and brown sugar water. Add onions when you have a fever, add a few cloves of garlic when you cough, and drink several times until the fever stops aching all over. Clear water runny nose, drink more boiled water, expel virus and cold fire in time, pay attention to rest, and the cold will recover soon.
(13) Eliminating deficiency fire and cold fire
People suffer from oral ulcers, stomatitis, otitis media, sore throat, etc., all of which are caused by vigorous deficiency fire or great victory of cold fire in the body.
Artemisia argyi foot bath can lead fire back to Yuan, and dispel the body's deficiency fire and cold fire.
5. Method
After the foot bath bag is brewed with boiling water, it is naturally cooled and warmed. Put your feet into the basin, and the water should not pass over the instep. If you add a few drops of Artemisia argyi essential oil to the water, the effect will be doubled.
Drink a bowl of brown sugar, ginger and jujube soup before soaking feet, so that you can combine inside and outside, and the effect is better.
6. Preventive measures
(1) The foot time should not be too long, but 20 ~ 30 minutes is appropriate, the lower back is wet and the forehead is sweaty. If you don't sweat when soaking your feet, you won't last long. Soak your feet a few more times and you will improve.
2, do not soak your feet within half an hour before and after meals, it is best to soak before going to bed.
Warm water of 3.40-50℃ is the most suitable. Covering the bucket with a bath towel can not only keep the water temperature, but also put the knee joint in the bucket to raise the knee joint temperature.
4. Drinking 1 glass of water before and after soaking is beneficial to metabolism and body fluid supplement.
* * * Special tips
1. Eat less cold food before and after soaking mugwort leaves.
Don't wear less clothes than usual, and don't soak your feet in windy and cold places.
3. Women should not use mugwort foot bath bag to soak their feet during menstruation.
4. People with diabetes need the help of their families to test the water temperature first, because people with diabetes are not sensitive to the water temperature, so as to avoid burns and difficult to heal.
~ ~ Let's put a few more bags of boiling water in our foot bath bag. The water temperature will naturally get warmer, and it can also be used for bathing.