On the weekend, my friend suddenly sent me a shopping link. I opened it, and it turned out to be a medicine bag for soaking feet with wormwood. Are we all going to be healthy girls after 90?
This reminds me of my colleagues in our company. Dai Xiao is a girl who calls herself wet. She said that she felt greasy all day, her face was covered with pimples, her tongue was thick, and she was not refreshed after going to the toilet. A friend who studied Chinese medicine told her that she could soak her feet with wormwood, so Dai Xiao took advantage of the National Day holiday to go back to her hometown and cut a lot of wormwood, then dried it and packed it and brought it back to Beijing. She began to soak her feet with wormwood once a day. A week later, Dai Xiao said she felt refreshed. But? After several weeks of continuous use, Dai Xiao told me with tears: wormwood health care is a lie. How to get angry easily?
Today, we will talk about this kind of wormwood that Dai Xiao loves and hates.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi, also known as Folium Artemisiae Argyi, is a kind of wild vegetable and a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which is often eaten by southerners, but generally used as medicine in the north. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is pungent, bitter and warm; Spleen, liver and kidney meridians; Aromatic warm powder, which can rise or fall; It has the effects of warming channels to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, eliminating dampness and killing insects; Indications: Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, infertility due to uterine cold, restless fetus, chills and pains, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, bleeding during pregnancy, diarrhea, chronic dysentery, leukorrhagia, eczema, scabies, carbuncle and hemorrhoids. Moxibustion cures all diseases.
Wormwood has a close relationship with people's life in China. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put wormwood at home to ward off evil spirits. The withered plants are soaked in water for disinfection and itching relief. Mothers often bathe or fumigate with wormwood water. Traditional medical theory holds that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of qi and blood, expelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Modern experimental studies have proved that Artemisia argyi leaves contain a lot of volatile oil, as well as trace elements, flavonoids, polysaccharides and other organic components. These substances can effectively regulate the needs of human body, and Artemisia argyi has good antibacterial and antiviral effects; Antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; Hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; Sedative and antiallergic effects; Protect liver and gallbladder, etc. Wormwood can be used as recipes such as wormwood tea, wormwood soup and wormwood porridge to enhance the body's resistance to diseases.
Wormwood can be used for moxibustion, wormwood bathing, smearing Cao essential oil, eating wormwood and soaking feet, but today I want to focus on wormwood soaking feet.
Soaking feet with wormwood has become the best choice for many people to keep healthy with wormwood because of its convenient use.
Effect of soaking feet with wormwood
Soaking feet with water of Folium Artemisiae Argyi can effectively eliminate deficiency fire and cold fire, and can be used to treat recurrent diseases related to deficiency fire and cold fire on the head and face, such as portal ulcer, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media, etc., and can also eliminate cold and dampness in the body.
1. has the functions of dispelling cold, expelling moisture in the body, warming meridians and dredging collaterals.
The experiment tells us that Artemisia argyi has a strong effect of expelling cold. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves can effectively promote blood circulation in the body, so that the damp and cold gas in the body can be discharged from the body. Folium Artemisiae Argyi can dredge the twelve meridians and regulate the balance of yin and yang in the body. When the meridians in the body are unblocked, the circulation of qi and blood will naturally become smooth. When qi and blood are healthy, the cold in the body naturally disappears.
Due to lack of exercise, modern people generally suffer from severe cold and dampness. Artemisia argyi can treat this situation well. In addition, if conditions permit, you can use moxa stick moxibustion, and the effect will be more obvious.
2. Remove deficiency fire and cold fire
Oral ulcer, stomatitis, otitis media and sore throat are all common symptoms in summer, which we usually call "getting angry". In fact, these conditions are all caused by exuberant deficiency fire or cold fire in the body. Just boil the wormwood with water and soak your feet with medicine, and you will be sweating all over. Then drink some warm water, soak your feet for two or three days, eat less cold food and pay attention to rest, then these diseases can be well alleviated.
Treat a cold
We know that soaking feet can make people sweat, which has a certain effect on treating colds. So can mugwort soaking feet cure a cold?
During a cold, soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi makes people sweat, combined with some other foods, such as drinking some Jiang Shui or cold medicine, is beneficial to the recovery of a cold. If people have a cold and cough, you can add a few cloves of garlic to the hot water you drink, and drink it several times to make the human body fever, which will relieve the symptoms of colds such as cough. Therefore, there is no doubt that soaking your feet with mugwort leaves will help you recover from a cold.
Relieve spasm
Soaking feet with mugwort leaves can promote blood circulation and relieve muscle spasm. If you can stick to massage after soaking your feet, the effect will be better. Specific practice: it is located on the inner side of the sole, and the big toe of the foot extends downward to the top of the sole joint. Touch something with particles by hand, and massage at fixed points can relieve cramps.
5. Besides athlete's foot and tinea pedis
Wormwood has antibacterial, antiviral, antiallergic and resistance enhancing effects. Targeted use and long-term persistence can remove beriberi and tinea pedis.
How to soak wormwood feet?
Shredding Folium Artemisiae Argyi or Folium Artemisiae Argyi, putting into a foot-soaking pliers, and soaking in boiling water for a while. After the mugwort leaves are soaked, soak your feet with some warm water until the whole body is slightly exposed, but you can't sweat. Drink warm water after soaking your feet, be careful not to eat cold food, have a good rest, and generally soak for 2? After 3 days, the discomfort of head, face and throat caused by deficiency fire and cold fire will obviously improve or disappear. For patients with severe cold and dampness, you can soak your feet with mugwort once a week. While soaking mugwort leaves, you can drink a cup of ginger and jujube water to drive away cold without diarrhea.
Matters needing attention of mugwort leaf soaking feet
1. The foot soaking time should not be too long.
15 wormwood foot bath? 30 minutes is good. When soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply, which will cause dizziness and headache.
2. Not too many times
Some people soak their feet every day because wormwood is good for their health, so they have side effects, just like my colleagues, such as getting angry. Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi often leads to deficiency fire and cold fire, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the face and upper body, dizziness, headache, irritability and irritability.
Experts suggest that if you are a patient with cold and heavy humidity, you can soak your feet with mugwort once a week. But in terms of diet, we should eat less cold food. And drink a glass of ginger and jujube water when soaking your feet. If you are weak, you can soak your feet when you get angry, and you can eat complementary food when you don't get angry. Slowly, you will find that your health has improved and you are not easy to get angry.
3. The best time to soak your feet after dinner
It's best to choose when mugwort leaves out to soak your feet half an hour after dinner every night. This is the best time to soak your feet.
4. People with yin deficiency and blood heat should not soak wormwood.
Patients with yin deficiency and blood heat had better not eat this method of soaking feet, which will not only make them healthy, but will lead to losses.
Tips for soaking feet with wormwood
Wormwood+pepper
Except sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and eczema.
Wormwood+safflower
Improve leg varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, paralysis of hands and feet and local blood stasis.
Wormwood+ginger
Effectively treat a series of diseases such as wind-cold common cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid disease, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
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