Can mugwort cure cough

During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household will prepare some mugwort leaves to insert on the door. These mugwort leaves are not only used for decoration, representing the festive atmosphere, but also can treat some diseases. For example, mugwort leaves can be used to treat coughs. Repeated coughs can cause harm to the bodies of many patients. Using mugwort leaves to treat coughs can not only relieve the symptoms well, but also has a good effect on removing some colds, as well as cold and moisture in the body.

Can mugwort cure cough?

It may not be effective, but it may be effective for colds.

Mugwort tastes bitter and is warm in nature. It has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain. From this point of view, mugwort has no effect on curing cough. However, mugwort can dispel cold. If the cold and cough are caused by wind and cold, then drinking mugwort water or soaking your feet in mugwort can expel the cold in the body. This can be said to be effective, but the effect is not obvious. Therefore, mugwort cannot be used to treat coughs. It would be better to say that it can dispel cold and maintain health.

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can dispel the cold

Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh mugwort leaves, or 50 grams of dried mugwort leaves.

Method: Boil a large amount of water for foot soaking in advance so that it is convenient to add water during the soaking process. Put the moxa leaves into the pot, add half of the water in the pot, bring to a boil over high heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Pour into the foot bath bucket and add the prepared hot water. The depth should be above the calves. Let it cool to a temperature that the feet can adapt to before you can start soaking your feet.

Tip: During the foot soaking process, you need to continuously add hot water to keep the water temperature at around 40 degrees. You can also drink some warm water while soaking your feet and avoid eating cold food. This will help you get rid of the cold. Soak for half an hour until you sweat slightly all over your body.

Cough should be treated symptomatically

Especially cough caused by cold, because cold is a self-limiting disease, it can heal itself, but symptoms such as cough and runny nose caused by cold need to be treated with the right medicine. So to treat cough, we should also first understand the cause of the cough. For example, cough caused by wind and cold should be treated with heat, and cough caused by wind and heat should be treated with cold to remove heat.