Soaking feet can promote blood circulation in the body, and adding wormwood can enhance yang and drive away dampness and coldness in the body. In addition, wormwood can dredge the twelve meridians and regulate yin and yang. People with smooth meridians will have smooth qi and blood, and people with healthy qi and blood will naturally have nowhere to live.
② Antibacterial and antiviral
Scientific reports show that wormwood oil has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus albus and Streptococcus A, and wormwood has antibacterial, antiviral, antiallergic and resistance-enhancing effects. Targeted use and long-term persistence can remove beriberi and tinea pedis.
③ Eliminate deficiency fire and cold fire.
If the body is full of deficiency fire or cold fire, people often show oral ulcers, stomatitis and sore throat. Soaking feet with wormwood can remove deficiency fire and cold fire in the body, thus treating oral ulcer, stomatitis and sore throat.
However, it must be noted that although wormwood has a strong effect of soaking feet, not everyone is suitable for long-term soaking. It is beneficial for people with severe deficiency fire and cold fire to soak their feet in the short term, but long-term use of wormwood will lead to deficiency of both qi and blood, headache, dizziness, irritability and other symptoms. You should pay attention to many taboos when soaking your feet with wormwood. This kind of person should not soak. Let's have a look. If you don't do bad things with good intentions, you will feel uncomfortable if you want to exercise.
These kinds of people are not suitable for wormwood to soak their feet.
1, wormwood is a warm drug, so people with yin deficiency and blood are not suitable for use.
2. People with fever, low blood pressure, diabetes and menstrual period should not soak their feet with wormwood casually. You'd better consult a doctor first.
3. People with blood stasis constitution or traumatic injury, soaking feet with wormwood will lead to more serious blood stasis symptoms. The most obvious symptom is that the lips will turn purple and black, easy to palpitation, and the heart rate will accelerate.
People with blood fever should not soak their feet with wormwood. Long-term use will lead to yin deficiency and excessive fire, and blood dryness will generate heat. Once the poison is released and the hot air rushes up, there will be symptoms such as sores on the tongue and sore eyes.
Other preventive measures
1. Children and menstruating women should not soak their feet with wormwood for a long time.
It is not suitable for children to drink mugwort leaves, and it is not suitable for children to soak their feet with mugwort leaves for a long time. The greater the cumulative effect, the more likely it is to make the child's body mature, which is not conducive to the child's health, and it is also true for menstrual women.
2. Don't soak your feet before and after meals.
When soaking feet, don't be too full, too hungry or eat, because foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, which is prone to dizziness and discomfort. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach.
3, the number of times there is fire in the body can not be too much.
Friends with fire in their bodies must remember not to soak their feet with wormwood too often, and don't soak their feet every day because they think wormwood is good for their health, which may have side effects. Because you often soak your feet with wormwood, it is easy to cause deficiency fire and cold fire, which will lead to insufficient blood supply to the upper body such as face, dizziness and headache, and your temper will become irritable.
It's good to soak your feet with wormwood, which can dispel dampness and dredge collaterals. When soaking feet, the water level should be at least above the ankle, the water temperature should not be too hot, and the soaking time should not be too long, usually about 20 minutes.
Adding a few pepper and ginger to wormwood can also play a role in expelling cold, which is also helpful for women with palace cold.
When I was a child, I had scarlet fever and my health was poor. I don't know why I started sweating in the sixth grade. When you are touched, you are rejected by all kinds. At that time, I felt very inferior and didn't dare to play all kinds of hand-holding games with people, especially when I was nervous. Sweating a lot, every exam is wet.
When I contacted wormwood to soak my feet and hands, the situation changed greatly. Wormwood is a very good thing to get rid of dampness. I insist on soaking my feet every day and eat less cold seafood, cold drinks and fruits. After a week, the sweat on the palms and soles of the feet decreased, and the overall humidity decreased, making people feel very comfortable.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the nature of pure yang, which can warm meridians and dispel cold, warm kidney and help yang. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves for a long time can improve the peripheral circulation of lower limbs and improve the immunity of the body.
I feel that there is really less water in my body. I used to get pimples on my face in the warm spring season in bloom, but I got into the habit of soaking wormwood last year. My skin has always been in good condition.
Systemic hypertension. Skin ulceration is not suitable for soaking feet. Whether wormwood can soak feet for a long time depends on my physical condition.
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As a common wild vegetable, wormwood has a slightly pungent taste, but it has a wide range of functions. In addition to making moxa sticks for moxibustion, the most common use of wormwood is soaking feet. Artemisia argyi has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects: it can warm menstruation, expel dampness and coldness in the body, and make hands and feet cold easily. Female friends with dysmenorrhea can kill two birds with one stone by boiling water with wormwood every day, which can not only speed up blood circulation, but also treat beriberi. In addition, there are many benefits of mugwort soaking feet! Moxibustion soaking feet can make the conditioning effect of moxibustion on the next floor!