Speaking of wormwood, many people like to eat the green balls made of wormwood, and now more and more people are aware of the importance of health and begin to pay attention to the maintenance of the body, and usually pay attention to various health preservation methods.
For example, after maturity, mugwort leaves are cut off, then dried and preserved, which can be used for one year. Mugwort leaves can be made into moxibustion strips to smoke mugwort, mugwort leaves can also be used to boil water to soak feet, for ordinary people, the operation is extremely simple, that is, mugwort leaves boiled water to soak feet, will bring many benefits to the body.
What components do mugwort leaves have?
Mugwort leaf is a common Chinese herbal medicine, has high medicinal value, widely used in daily life, mugwort leaf is warm, bitter, bitter, slightly toxic, attributed to the liver, spleen, kidney meridian, moreover, mugwort leaf has the effect of improving sleep quality, improving immunity, dispersing cold and pain, warm menstruation and hemostasis, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, cough and asthma, treatment of irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, etc.
Soak your feet with mugwort leaves before going to bed at night, and these benefits will come uninvited for a while
1. Get rid of dampness and cold
In daily life, many friends have symptoms of cold hands and feet, at this time you can use mugwort leaves to soak your feet, as long as you stick to it, I believe that it will not be long before you will remove these cold and dampness in the body, so that your hands and feet are no longer cold.
2. Relieves insomnia
If you want to get rid of insomnia, you can soak your feet in hot water before going to bed, and then add mugwort leaves, which can relieve the fatigue of the body, relax the nervous brain, and soothe the mood, thereby improving the quality of sleep. Stimulating the meridians and acupuncture points on the soles of the feet with hot water can relax the muscles and activate the muscles, help you fall asleep faster in bed, and sleep until dawn.
3. Remove athlete's foot
Mugwort leaves have a bactericidal effect, soaking feet with wormwood leaf water can eliminate the discomfort caused by beriberi and relieve athlete's foot, in addition to soaking feet with fresh mugwort leaves, patients with beriberi can also use dried mugwort leaves, or soak feet with wormwood stick boiling water, the effect is also good.
4. Prevent hemorrhoids
For patients with hemorrhoids, soaking their feet with mugwort leaves every night before going to bed can help people relieve the discomfort caused by hemorrhoids. Moreover, mugwort leaves have the effect of dispelling cold and dampness, and can also promote blood circulation and effectively improve the uncomfortable symptoms caused by hemorrhoids.
5. Relieves menstrual cramps
Today's women should be demeanor without temperature, and also like to eat raw and cold food, which can easily cause cold and painful menstruation in the long run. At this time, soaking your feet with mugwort leaves every day before going to bed can achieve the effect of removing cold and relieving pain, and can also promote blood circulation in the body and help women relieve menstrual pain.
6. Clear the liver and clear the eyes
Now the pressure of young people is increasing, and even some people are under pressure from many aspects, if their own pressure is too great and do not adjust and improve in time, it is easy to cause liver function to be affected. At this time, you can properly use mugwort water to soak your feet, which may help to improve the situation of strong liver fire, to a certain extent.
What do I need to pay attention to when soaking my feet with mugwort?
1. Control the water temperature
Although it is good to soak your feet with mugwort water, we try to avoid soaking your feet on an empty stomach or after meals, and the soaking time when soaking your feet with mugwort leaves should not be too long, try to control it in about 15~30 minutes, and the water temperature should not be too high, try to keep it at about 45 degrees.
2. Women who come to menstruate should not soak
Women during the visit of the great aunt, the body is relatively weak, pay attention to more matters, during this period can use mugwort leaves to soak feet, may increase menstrual bleeding, so at this time it is best not to use mugwort leaves to soak feet, you can wait until the end of menstruation before soaking.
3. It is best to use a wooden basin to soak your feet
No matter what kind of traditional Chinese medicine, it is best to use a wooden basin to soak the feet, if you use a copper basin, the chemical composition is not very stable, and many Chinese medicines have tannic acid in it, and the two are prone to reaction, which may reduce the effect of health care.
4. It is best to soak your feet before nine
It is best to choose to soak your feet after an hour of eating. It is best to soak our feet around nine o'clock in the evening, when our body has the weakest qi and blood, the effect of soaking feet is the most ideal, and the body benefits the most.
Can you drink it with mugwort?
Wormwood is a broad-spectrum antibacterial plant, with the effect of promoting qi and blood, dispersing cold and dampness, as long as patients usually have cold hands and feet, adjustment or joint pain, can drink wormwood water. Generally, there are no side effects, but patients with Yin deficiency and blood heat constitution should use wormwood with caution.
In addition to mugwort leaves, what other medicinal herbs can you soak your feet in daily life?
1. Ginger
Adding ginger to foot soaking water should be a more common practice, in winter with ginger to soak feet can be a good way to relieve the symptoms of cold body, especially cold friends, is very suitable for using ginger to soak feet to health, health care. Suggestion: Pat the ginger with the back of a knife, and then put it in hot water and stir several times to let the medicinal effect in the ginger fully dissolve in the water, and the effect of soaking the feet is better.
2. Patchouli
Soak your feet with lotus fragrance to remove moisture, more suitable for summer humidity. Summer humidity is heavy, and summer humidity will cause a variety of discomfort after entering the human body. Lotus can dissolve moisture and repel spleen, and if its taste is not acceptable, it can be used to soak the feet.
Generally speaking, soaking the feet with Chinese medicine can put the drug into boiling water and decoct for a period of time, which can better stimulate the medicinal power. However, it should be noted that medicinal herbs such as lotus contain volatile substances and only need to be slightly heated.
3. Angelica
Angelica foot soaking can also have a good improvement effect, and also has a good effect on improving athlete's foot. Preparation before soaking feet: you need to boil angelica in clean water for about 40 minutes, then remove the residue, pour the boiled potion into the basin, and add an appropriate amount of warm water at a suitable temperature, each time soaking the feet for 30 minutes can have a good effect.
4. Safflower
Safflower is a Chinese herbal medicine that activates blood circulation and removes stasis, safflower soaking feet moderately before going to bed can relax muscles and circulation and activate blood stasis, but also improve blood circulation and prevent the problem of varicose veins in the feet, especially people with back pain can relax the body and relieve mental pressure while soaking their feet with safflower.
Further reading - Can you soak your feet with mugwort leaves every day?
Although wormwood has many benefits for health, it is not suitable for people to soak their feet with wormwood, often soaking feet with mugwort leaves is easy to cause heartburn and body weakness, as well as headaches, dizziness and other problems of insufficient blood supply, because everything has two sides, although it has many advantages, but if it is used excessively, there will be a series of problems, I hope you can pay attention.
Everyone must pay attention to many aspects when using wormwood to soak feet, and when using wormwood to soak feet, remember not to blindly believe in various remedies, otherwise it is easy to pose a threat to your health. And before using it, you should also listen to the advice of Chinese medicine.
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