1, foot-soaking effect of mugwort leaves
The custom of soaking feet has been continued by people, especially modern people are very keen on soaking feet. Now people's physical function can't keep up with the pace of life, so more and more people are in sub-health state. Then, it is a simple and effective method to soak feet in health with Chinese medicine, which is also accepted by people now.
The most common medicinal material for soaking feet is Folium Artemisiae Argyi, alias "wormwood", which is fragrant, mild and edible. But people are more interested in its medicinal value, so they will use it to soak their feet with safflower, which has many effects!
1, has the effect of promoting blood circulation.
2. It has antibacterial, antiviral, antiallergic and immunity enhancing effects.
3. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a cool herb, which can also be used to remove beriberi and tinea pedis.
4, safflower wormwood leaves can also go cold, dampness, and meridian.
5, can relieve knee pain, eliminate toxins, and have a certain relief effect on low back and leg pain and knee pain.
Especially in winter, soaking feet with safflower and wormwood leaves has many benefits. Soaking feet with safflower and mugwort leaves has a good health care function, which not only warms the whole body, but also helps to sleep. Moreover, these materials are easy to buy in pharmacies in China, and the price is very close to the people.
2, safflower wormwood foot bath should avoid the crowd.
Soaking your feet with safflower and wormwood leaves has magical effects, which can drive away the cold for you, especially the sister paper without male tickets. You are not cold this winter! But it is impossible for 1000 people to use it, and some people are still not suitable for soaking their feet with safflower and wormwood leaves!
Patients with hypertension are not suitable for soaking feet with safflower and mugwort, even ordinary people. Because soaking feet is prone to ischemia, most patients will feel dizzy and unwell. Moreover, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, Artemisia argyi and safflower have the functions of dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals. Soaking feet with hot water will accelerate blood circulation and reduce blood supply to the head and other parts of the body, leading to dizziness, palpitation and chest tightness. In addition, women with more menstrual flow should not use it during menstruation, because both safflower and mugwort have the functions of warming uterus, warming menstruation and promoting blood circulation, which will increase menstrual flow. If you do this for a long time, it will be bad for your health.
But if you have amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis, abdominal pain, traumatic injury, joint pain, partial stroke, macula and other symptoms. The method of soaking feet with safflower and wormwood leaves is just right for you. They can relieve your above symptoms, as well as abdominal cold pain, irregular menstruation, infertility due to palace cold and other symptoms. Only by recognizing its efficacy and suitability for people can we get the right medicine and get twice the result with half the effort!
3. Various methods of soaking feet
(1) mugwort leaves soak feet.
Take 50- 100g of dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi (depending on the amount of water, there is no strict standard), first add water to boil, then add cold water or soak feet after the temperature is lowered. If it's too much trouble, soak the mugwort leaves in some hot water for 20 minutes and then add water to soak your feet.
A few small prescriptions for mugwort soaking feet:
(1) wormwood and ginger can treat colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid diseases, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
(2) wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.
(3) Adding salt to wormwood is suitable for upper energizer with fire, which often leads to jealousy, toothache, sore throat, irritability, catching a cold due to excessive internal heat, and edema of legs and feet.
(4) 20 capsules of Chinese prickly ash are suitable for sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and warm rash.
(2) Soak your feet with vinegar
Selection of vinegar: (rice vinegar or aged vinegar100-150g)
The role of vinegar soaking feet:
(1) can solve the problem of foot odor. Soaking feet with vinegar can sterilize and treat beriberi to some extent.
(2) It can relieve fatigue.
(3) It can moisturize skin, soften cutin and increase skin elasticity.
(4) It can dispel wind and dampness and improve the symptoms of chills.
(5) Treating sleep disorders.
(6) Vinegar can penetrate the superficial skin of feet, enhance blood circulation, remove human blood garbage and pathological deposits, and cure many chronic diseases.
(3) almond tea soaking feet
Bitter almond 45g, green tea 10g. Put the above medicines together in a pot, add 2000 ml of water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove residues and get juice. Apply 1 vial to face and arms, pour the rest into a basin, and soak for 30 minutes when the temperature is suitable. 20 days is 1 course of treatment. It can moisten skin, diminish inflammation and sterilize, supplement vitamins and minerals, and prevent and treat skin chlorosis, blackness and roughness, acne and scabies.
(4) Soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine
For women with dysmenorrhea, we can try to stick to traditional Chinese medicine to soak feet to improve the condition of dysmenorrhea.
1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
Its symptoms are abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, dark menstrual blood with blood clots. People with such symptoms should reconcile qi and blood, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Because women mainly live in the liver, the drugs chosen for foot bath are mainly drugs with foot-jueyin entering the liver meridian, and appropriate amount of menstrual vinegar is added, such as 30g of Green Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, 30g of Linderae Radix, 30g of Motherwort, Chuanxiong 10g, and safflower 10g. Add about two liters of water and about 50 ml of vinegar, boil it with strong fire, and fry it with low fire for 30 minutes. When the medicine is cooled to 50℃, pour the residue into a basin to soak feet. The amount of medicine in the basin should be immersed in the ankle joint. If the liquid medicine is insufficient, add appropriate amount of warm water. The feet keep moving in the medicine, so that the soles of the feet receive slight physical stimulation from the dregs for more than 30 minutes at a time.
2. Yang deficiency and cold excess type
Its symptoms are cold pain in the lower abdomen, less pain in hot compress and chills in hands and feet. The principle of warming channels and dispelling cold should be used to relieve pain. Because there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that the kidney governs the whole body yang, the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly those with insufficient yin entering the kidney meridian, and appropriate amount of salt water should be added, such as cinnamon, clove, linderae, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong each 15g, dried ginger, fennel and Evodia rutaecarpa each 6g, and a little salt can be decocted.
3. Deficiency of qi and blood
Its symptom is a dull pain in the lower abdomen during or after menstruation, and there will be slight pain when pressing the abdomen with your hand. The menstrual flow is small and pale, so it is necessary to replenish qi, nourish blood and regulate menstruation. Traditional Chinese medicine is called "spleen regulating blood", and the drugs selected for foot soaking should be mainly drugs that enter the Taiyin spleen meridian, and appropriate amount of sweet water can be added. For example, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Eucommiae Cortex, and Radix Astragali 15g can be used for foot bath, and appropriate amount of maltose and boiled water can be added.