Chinese medicine believes that feet hurt the whole body, and soaking feet with mugwort leaves often can not only promote blood circulation, help to expel cold and dampness in the body, but also help to dredge meridians and regulate the balance of yin and yang in the body. As the saying goes, cold is born from the foot, and many diseases of the human body are caused by the invasion of cold. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves often can prevent the harm of cold and dampness to human body.

In addition to the role of dispelling cold, you can often soak your feet with mugwort leaves, which can dredge the meridians in the human body and make the blood more smooth, which is very beneficial to your body.

At the same time, because of its bacteriostatic effect, soaking feet with mugwort leaves can also help remove beriberi and treat tinea pedis. Wormwood can effectively resist bacteria and viruses. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves for a long time can effectively help remove beri and tinea pedis. This is a very effective method.

For women, it is more beneficial to often soak their feet with mugwort leaves. Women have menstrual cycles every month, and many women have dysmenorrhea at this stage, which can even be described as lovelessness. Chinese medicine believes that dysmenorrhea is largely due to stagnation of qi and blood, that is, poor qi and blood, which affects menstruation.

What should female dysmenorrhea do? Chinese medicine believes that Artemisia argyi is a kind of woman? Health grass? . Because Artemisia argyi has a very good effect of warming meridians and stopping bleeding, it can also drive away cold and warm middle warmer. Therefore, it is very effective for women to soak their feet with mugwort, especially during menstruation.

The specific method of soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi is as follows: shred Folium Artemisiae Argyi, put it in a bucket, soak it in freshly boiled hot water for 5-8 minutes, and then soak your feet when the water temperature reaches about 40 degrees. Soak until the whole body sweats slightly. Don't sweat. Although the foot soaking effect of mugwort leaves is very good, there are several points for attention, and it is best not to miss one:

Don't take too long: when soaking feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs in large quantities because of the high temperature of the feet. Too long time will lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, especially for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and some elderly people. Therefore, each foot bath should not exceed half an hour, and it is best to control it within 20 minutes.

The temperature should not be too high: too high water temperature is not only easy to hurt the feet, but also easy to destroy the sebum film on the skin surface of the feet, which is not good for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients. So soak your feet with mugwort leaves, and the water temperature should be controlled at 40℃~45℃.

Don't soak your feet in a metal basin: many people don't know what basin to soak their feet in. In fact, the basin for soaking feet is very particular. The best basin is a wooden basin, and it is not recommended to use a metal basin. Metal pot can easily react with tannic acid in Artemisia argyi leaves, which not only greatly reduces the soaking effect, but also easily produces toxic and harmful substances.

Patients with diabetic foot: Diabetic foot is not sensitive to pain, so it often has insufficient perception of water temperature, which will increase the risk of burns. Therefore, patients with diabetic foot had better not soak their feet with mugwort water. If you must soak your feet with mugwort, you'd better use a thermometer to strictly control the water temperature.

After female abortion: After female abortion, the body is very weak. At this time, it is necessary to avoid over-cooling and over-heating, and avoid stimulating the body and bringing adverse consequences.

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