Can soaking your feet in moxa leaves remove moisture?

Soaking your feet in hot water every day can not only relax your body and mind, but also relieve physical fatigue and remove moisture from the body. You can also add some Chinese medicinal materials when soaking your feet in hot water. Among them, mugwort is a Chinese medicinal material that people often use for soaking their feet. Because mugwort actually has many functions, such as calming and relieving pain and enhancing brain wakefulness, mugwort plays a good role. But can soaking your feet in mugwort remove moisture?

Can soaking your feet in mugwort remove moisture?

For people with heavy cold and dampness in the body, it is okay to soak the feet in mugwort leaves once a week, but it should not be done too frequently. (When used for a long time, mugwort will draw the false fire and cold fire downwards, causing deficiency of qi and blood on the face.) At other times, just use warm water.

If you take supplements, you may suffer from a condition where you are too weak to take the supplements, such as toothache, mouth ulcers and other symptoms of getting angry. If you have obvious symptoms of getting angry, you can soak your feet in moxa leaves every day.

Drink more warm water and eat less cold food. If there is a lot of dampness in the body, you can cook some coix seed and red bean porridge and eat it as a snack without interruption. It is very effective in treating dampness in the body.

Can soaking your feet in mugwort leaves cure athlete's foot?

Mugwort has antibacterial and bactericidal effects, has a strong inhibitory effect on many pathogenic skin fungi, and can treat a variety of skin diseases. Therefore, soaking your feet in mugwort leaves has a certain effect on treating athlete's foot. However, it can only treat mild athlete's foot. If the athlete's foot is already very serious, you still need to seek medical attention.

You also need to know that when you want to treat mild athlete's foot, you should not only insist on soaking your feet in mugwort leaves, but also keep your feet dry to avoid fungal infection again. Because athlete's foot, which is not a disease, is very easy to relapse. Once treatment is interrupted, it is easy to relapse.

How to use moxa leaf foot bath correctly?

The method of soaking feet with mugwort leaves is to take 50 grams of mugwort leaves, put them into cold water and boil them over high heat. Turn off the heat after the water boils for 5 minutes, cover the pot and simmer until the water temperature is appropriate. Then take out the moxa leaves, pour the medicinal juice into the basin, and you can start soaking your feet. You can massage your feet while soaking until your body starts to sweat slightly.

The mugwort water that has just been boiled is quite hot. Some people say that it is not easy to cool down if the lid is covered. Is it possible to leave the lid on?

We can answer this question clearly: No. If the lid is not covered, the active ingredients in the medicine will evaporate with the water vapor, affecting the efficacy.

Some people may ask, I don’t sweat when I soak my feet in mugwort leaves, does that mean soaking my feet in mugwort leaves is useless to me?

Relevant experts said that not sweating after soaking your feet in mugwort leaves is a physical problem. It will be fine after persisting for a period of time. It is not necessary to sweat.