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Can soaking feet with mugwort really get rid of moisture?
Wormwood can remove moisture. There are many ways to use Folium Artemisiae Argyi in Chinese medicine, which can be taken orally or boiled in soup, or mashed into juice, or made into moxa stick moxibustion, or washed feet with mugwort juice. Wormwood has many uses in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine pays attention to warming and nourishing, while wormwood is warm, which can dispel dampness and relieve itching, and also warm meridians to stop bleeding. For girls, wormwood is a good medicine for treating irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea. In our daily life, we can use wormwood to alleviate many situations.

Wormwood is widely used among the people in our country. It can be used as medicine to treat diseases and food to satisfy hunger. On the Double Ninth Festival, people often hang wormwood at the door to exorcise evil spirits, so as to realize people's good wishes. When a person's body is inflamed, such as pharyngitis or otitis media, these diseases are all related to what Chinese medicine says is the exuberance of deficiency fire in the body. Boil wormwood and water for more than 30 minutes, then soak your feet with liquid medicine, and wait until your whole body sweats slightly before the heat in your body will be emitted.

In daily life, our most common cold can also be treated with wormwood. Soak your feet with wormwood until you sweat. And you need to drink plenty of water, get rid of the cold poison in your body, get enough rest, and your cold will be fine. People with wet and cold constitution are most suitable for soaking feet with wormwood in summer, which can dispel summer heat and dampness, make people feel refreshed, have an appetite and improve sleep treatment.

But there are several points to pay attention to when soaking feet with wormwood. Pay attention to the time of soaking feet, and the longest time should not exceed half an hour. If you have cardiovascular disease, don't soak your feet with wormwood. When you have a fever or low blood pressure and diabetes, you need a doctor's guidance to soak your feet with wormwood. You can't eat cold food while soaking your feet with wormwood water. Because wormwood helps you dispel cold and dampness, cold food conflicts with wormwood, so it can't achieve good results. Doctors generally recommend drinking a cup of red dates and Jiang Shui when soaking feet with wormwood, which is more helpful to remove moisture.