Soaking feet is a very common health preserving behavior in daily life. Soaking feet with hot water is foot bath, which has a history of thousands of years. After entering the spring, soaking your feet properly can also take care of your health.
Moreover, adding some "condiments" when soaking feet is also helpful to your health. For example, you can add mugwort leaves when soaking your feet, which may help you improve four problems.
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What is wormwood?
Scientific research shows that all the chemical components in mugwort leaf come from its roots and leaves, and its main chemical components come from mugwort leaf.
Comprise brass, volatile oil, triterpene, phenylpropanoid and trace elements.
In addition, Artemisia argyi has a special taste, and the people have always said that it has the effects of repelling mosquitoes, expelling insects and exorcising evil spirits. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, Artemisia argyi leaves are bitter and warm, and belong to liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It can warm channels to stop bleeding, dispel cold and relieve pain; Externally used for eliminating dampness and relieving itching.
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Sticking to soaking your feet with mugwort leaves before going to bed may help you improve these four problems. Just try it.
Relieve beriberi
In our daily life, many people have beriberi, especially in summer, when wearing some shoes, because of poor air permeability, it is easier to breed viruses and bacteria, which will easily lead to beriberi.
If you have athlete's foot, you can choose Artemisia argyi to soak your feet, which can sterilize and help keep your skin healthy, but it takes a long time to achieve the effect.
Relieve fatigue and improve sleep.
With the continuous growth of age, people's sleep quality is likely to get worse and worse, especially after middle age, troubles in daily life come one after another, and they are too busy to breathe every day, which will naturally lead to insomnia.
If you have insomnia, you can soak your feet with mugwort leaves before going to bed, which will help relieve fatigue and improve sleep problems, and there are many acupuncture points on our feet.
Soaking feet before going to bed can relax muscles and promote blood circulation, relax our nervous spirit and help us fall asleep quickly.
dispel cold
There are many women who are cold. Their hands and feet are always cold all year round, and this situation may be more serious in winter.
If the problem of body cold persists, it will easily lead to some serious diseases, such as palace cold and joint pain.
If you feel cold, you can soak your feet with mugwort leaves, which can accelerate the blood circulation in the body and help to remove cold and dampness in the body.
Improve your own immunity
Folium Artemisiae Argyi can improve human immunity, prevent the invasion of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, and can be used to prevent colds.
Soaking feet with mugwort leaves can also improve the headache problem, but it is mainly aimed at angioneurotic headache.
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Method for boiling water with wormwood
When boiling water, mugwort leaves should be boiled for a while first, so that the effective components in mugwort leaves can enter the water. Generally, the boiling time is 15~20 minutes.
Boiled Folium Artemisiae Argyi water should not be added with clear water. You can soak your feet at a suitable temperature.
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There are some things we all need to know about wormwood soaking feet.
Children are not allowed to soak their feet with mugwort water.
Because children's physical development is not mature enough, it is easy to bring some uncertain factors to soak their feet with mugwort, so mugwort is not suitable for children to soak their feet.
Pregnant women should not soak their feet with mugwort.
Because pregnant women are a special group, Artemisia argyi also has a certain effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and the effect is comfortable. Soaking feet will also bring uncertainty, so it is not recommended that you soak feet with Artemisia argyi.
Don't soak for too long
Generally, the foot bath time should be controlled between 10 minutes and 20 minutes. Soaking for a long time is easy to bring harm to health, and it is advisable to sweat slightly on the head, otherwise it will easily lead to accelerated heartbeat, which is not conducive to health.
Conclusion: With the increasing awareness of health care, it has become the choice of many health care professionals to try various health care programs gradually. Various eating methods have also been developed one by one, among which soaking feet with mugwort leaves is a very simple way of health care. If you are tempted, you might as well buy some mugwort leaves and go home to soak your feet!