It usually takes two to three months to wash the lower body with mugwort leaves after delivery, just considering that it has the following functions.
1. Dispel cold and relieve pain. Female postpartum deficiency of both qi and blood, wide joints and sparse internal and external qi. If you are not careful, you will be attacked by the cold, and your whole body will be sore, cold and sweaty. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of regulating qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, and warming meridians. After delivery, wormwood leaf water is often used to scrub the body, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain and removing dampness and cold.
2. Relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation, affected by the hormone changes in postpartum body, the muscles and bones of the whole body of the parturient are relatively loose. If you don't get proper conditioning or are attacked by external evils, you are prone to joint pain. Folium Artemisiae Argyi can help the human body to promote yang and resist exogenous pathogens, help the mother to relax muscles and tendons, promote blood circulation and metabolism around joints.
3. Disinfect to avoid contamination. There has been a saying among the people: "You have been in love for three years at home, and you don't need a doctor. "Folium Artemisiae Argyi can effectively inhibit a variety of germs, so bathing with Folium Artemisiae Argyi water during confinement can disinfect and cleanse dirt, warm blood and prevent postpartum weakness.
What traditional Chinese medicine is used to soak feet after childbirth? Postpartum women have different symptoms. Because the symptoms are different, the herbs used are different. The following herbs match the following symptoms.
1, lumbar muscle strain is prone to lumbar muscle strain after sitting for a long time, especially after childbirth, when the new mother is holding the baby, the body has not recovered after childbirth, and the waist is easily injured. Soak your feet with Xanthium sibiricum for 20 minutes at a time for 3-5 days, which will be very good.
2, chronic rhinitis when the weather is cold, rhinitis is very uncomfortable, nasal congestion and runny nose, which is not only embarrassing, but also affects health. Soak your feet with Xanthium sibiricum for a week, and rhinitis will get better.
3, sore throat, getting angry in autumn is easy to cause sore throat. Soaking feet with Xanthium sibiricum can eliminate deficiency fire and sore throat. You might as well soak your feet with wormwood.
4, irregular menstruation Ten women have 8 irregular menstruation, and some are accompanied by different degrees of gynecological diseases. Soak your feet with angelica for 7- 10 days, and the disharmony and inflammation in menstrual period completely disappeared.
5. Soaking feet with angelica can improve dark circles.
6, relieve depression Angelica foot bath can relieve emotions, commonly used in the treatment of depression and autism drugs, can control boring emotions, reduce the impact of anger on the liver.
7. Abdominal pain and diarrhea Abdominal pain and diarrhea are the most common in autumn. Taking medicine is still very slow. Soaking feet with pepper can quickly remove the cold in the body, relieve pain and diarrhea, and it will be completely good after soaking for 2-3 days.
8, onychomycosis, pepper soaking feet can improve onychomycosis.
9, improve kidney function A strong kidney can make people energetic and confident, and can also improve the quality of life, which is conducive to family happiness. Soaking feet with Chili twice a week is more useful than doing health care.