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What role does wormwood play in soaking feet?
The function of soaking feet with wormwood is as follows:

1. Soaking feet with wormwood can improve lung function, which is good for people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white sputum. At the same time, drink more warm water, eat less cold food and pay attention to rest. Because wormwood is a flat, bitter and non-toxic drug, it has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold.

2. Soaking feet with wormwood can effectively eliminate deficiency fire and cold fire, and can relieve symptoms related to deficiency fire and cold fire, such as oral ulcer, sore throat and periodontitis.

3, wormwood soaking feet has the effect of dispelling cold and dampness. Soaking feet with hot water every day has the effect of promoting blood circulation and expelling dampness and cold. Moreover, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can activate the twelve meridians and promote blood circulation. At the same time, stop eating cold food and drink a glass of ginger and jujube water to drive away the cold without diarrhea.

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Precautions for soaking feet are as follows:

1, soaking feet on an empty stomach is not advisable.

Because hot water soaking feet will speed up the whole body blood circulation, affect the blood supply to the stomach, and it is easy to feel dizzy and uncomfortable.

2, special people soak their feet for too long will lead to syncope.

For example, people with heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, low blood pressure and frequent dizziness should not soak their feet with too hot water or for a long time. Because soaking feet with hot water will dilate blood vessels, and the whole body blood will flow from important organs to the body surface, leading to ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as the heart and brain, and increasing the risk of illness.

3. Diabetic patients should pay attention to the water temperature.

Because the peripheral nerves of these patients can't sense the external temperature normally, even if the water temperature is high, they can't feel it, which is easy to burn and will lead to serious consequences.

4, beriberi patients should be careful of infection.

People with beriberi and people with inflammation, dermatosis, trauma or skin burn on their feet should not soak their feet with hot water when their condition is serious enough to blister, because it is easy to cause wound infection.

5, the elderly foot bath time should not be too long.

Old people will have symptoms such as sweating and palpitation if they soak their feet for too long. Soak their feet for 20 minutes before going to bed every day.

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