What are the benefits of soaking feet in wormwood? What are the precautions for soaking feet in wormwood?
List of benefits of soaking feet with wormwood:
(1) dispelling cold
In fact, it is very healthy to stick to the method of soaking feet, especially soaking feet with wormwood. Soaking feet with wormwood can not only promote blood circulation, but also play a role in dispelling cold and dampness, warming meridians and regulating yin and yang.
(2) removing beriberi
In addition to good cold-dispelling effect, wormwood also has the functions of sterilization, antivirus and antiallergic. For those friends who have beriberi and tinea pedis caused by bacterial infection, stick to soaking their feet with wormwood for a few days, and then you will find that your beriberi and tinea pedis have improved obviously.
(3) Clearing away heat and removing fire
Many people in life will have many symptoms of getting angry, such as oral ulcer, sore throat, oral inflammation and so on. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, these inappropriate "alarms" of the body are related to the deficiency fire and the exuberance of cold fire in the body. Soaking feet with wormwood can solve these phenomena.
The specific operation method is: after boiling wormwood with water, soak your feet with the boiled wormwood water. The time for soaking feet is also particular, generally soaking the whole body to a little sweat. After soaking your feet for a few days, you will find that the symptoms of discomfort gradually decrease.
Matters needing attention in soaking feet with wormwood
1. After soaking feet, massage the soles of feet for 5 minutes, and then tap feet 10 minutes. The specific method of knocking on the foot is to lie on the bed with your legs tilted and your feet hit each other.
2, wormwood foot bath time is better to choose half an hour after dinner every night, this time foot bath effect is good.
Don't soak in a spacious and ventilated place to avoid heat loss.
4. Wear more clothes when soaking your feet, which can be thicker than usual. Generally speaking, the principle is not to soak when it is cold.
5, patients with yin deficiency and blood heat should not eat this foot bath method, not only can not make the body healthy, but there will be losses.
6. People with fever, low blood pressure and diabetes should soak their feet with wormwood under the guidance of a doctor.
7. Pay attention to soaking your feet with wormwood. At the same time, drink more warm water, eat less cold food and pay attention to rest.
Taboo of wormwood soaking feet
Although there are many benefits of soaking feet with mugwort leaves, it is of great benefit to our health and even has a certain curative effect on some diseases of the human body, we should also pay attention to the following situations when soaking feet with mugwort leaves.
1, the foot soaking time should not be too long, and 15 ~ 30 minutes is appropriate. When soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as chest tightness and dizziness and the elderly should stop soaking their feet and rest. Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so their families should try the water temperature first to prevent burns.
2. People with fever, hypotension and diabetes should soak their feet with mugwort leaves under the guidance of a doctor. Soak your feet with mugwort 2 ~ 3 times a week, not too often. Soaking the feet of mugwort leaves will lead to fire, sometimes it will lead to insufficient qi and blood in the head and face, which is easy to cause dizziness, headache and emotional changes.
3, Chinese medicine foot bath is easy to use wooden pots. The chemical composition in metal pots such as copper pots is unstable, and it is easy to react with tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine to produce harmful substances such as iron tannic acid, which greatly reduces the curative effect of drugs.
Children should not soak their feet with overheated water for a long time. Because the arch of the foot began to form in childhood, we should pay attention to protection from an early age. If you often wash your feet with hot water, the ligaments on the soles of your feet will become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch, and it is easy to form flat feet.
5, women do not use Chinese medicine to soak their feet during menstruation. Consult a good doctor and prescribe drugs according to your own situation.
In daily life, soaking feet with mugwort leaves is a very healthy health preserving method, which can regulate the body from the inside out. It has the effect of dispelling cold and warming up. I suggest you try soaking your feet with mugwort leaves. That's what I introduced. You can soak your feet properly.
Can wormwood soak feet every day?
You can't soak your feet with wormwood every day. There are many effects of wormwood soaking feet, but you must observe the precautions when soaking feet, otherwise it will easily produce side effects.
Soaking feet with wormwood can lead to deficiency fire and cold fire in the body, which is easy to cause deficiency of both qi and blood in the head and face and insufficient blood supply, otherwise it is easy to cause dizziness, headache and emotional changes.