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Is wormwood good for soaking feet?
What is the effect of soaking feet in wormwood?

1, eliminating deficiency fire and cold fire

The human body suffers from oral ulcer, stomatitis, otitis media, sore throat and so on. All of them are caused by weak fire or strong cold fire in the body. Just boil Artemisia argyi leaves in water and soak your feet in the medicine for a while until you sweat slightly 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.

2, can drive away the cold

Soaking feet with hot water every day can promote blood circulation and drive away dampness and coldness in the body. In addition, Artemisia argyi can pass 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. For the cold-dispelling effect of mugwort leaves, it is suggested that moxa stick moxibustion can be used, and the effect will be more obvious.

3, in addition to beriberi, tinea pedis

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has antibacterial, antiviral, antiallergic and resistance enhancing effects. Targeted use and long-term persistence can remove beriberi and tinea pedis.

Method of soaking feet with mugwort leaves

Put a handful of mugwort leaves into a clean pot, and then add a proper amount of water. After the fire boils, continue to boil for about ten minutes before taking it out. When the water cools naturally enough to soak your feet, you can also add other materials to soak your feet according to your physical condition. When soaking your feet, you must not immerse yourself in sweat, but stop when you are slightly sweaty.

1, Zanthoxylum argyi can remove sweaty feet, foot odor, beriberi and eczema.

2. Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Flos Carthami can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.

3. Folium Artemisiae Argyi plus ginger tablets can treat common cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid disease, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

4. Folium Artemisiae Argyi with salt can cure upper energizer with fire, frequent eye fire, toothache and sore throat, fidgety, getting angry and catching cold, and edema of feet and legs.

Taboo of wormwood soaking feet

The foot soaking time should not be too long, 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.

People with fever, hypotension and diabetes should soak their feet with wormwood under the guidance of a doctor.

Soak your feet with wormwood 2 ~ 3 times a week, not too often. Soaking feet with wormwood will lead to fire, sometimes it will lead to insufficient blood in the head and face, which is easy to cause dizziness, headache and emotional changes.

It is best to use a wooden basin for soaking feet with traditional Chinese medicine. 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 generate harmful substances such as iron tannic acid, which greatly reduces the curative effect of drugs.

Children should not soak their feet in 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.