Can taking a bath with mugwort cure urticaria?

Because urticaria has a long incubation period in the human body, there is a possibility of recurrence even after a person's urticaria is cured. Therefore, when urticaria appears in your body, you must not ignore it. You should find the correct method to treat it and completely eradicate it. Mugwort is a common Chinese herbal medicine, but its therapeutic effect is very good and rich, but can mugwort be used to treat urticaria?

When it comes to urticaria, everyone is familiar with it. It is a common skin disease that can recur. If you are not careful in life and are stimulated by adverse factors, urticaria may occur. Therefore, people with a history of urticaria should pay attention to protection. So how to treat urticaria? Can you take a bath with mugwort? Let us learn about it together.

When you suffer from urticaria, you can take a bath with mugwort. It is a common Chinese herbal medicine with multiple functions. It can warm the meridians, remove dampness, and dispel cold. It also has hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, fetal stabilizing, and anti-allergic effects. The occurrence of urticaria is mainly caused by a variety of allergic factors, so taking a bath in water boiled with mugwort can relieve allergic symptoms and have an antipruritic effect.

How to use mugwort to take a bath for urticaria? There are the following usages:

1. Boil water with dried mugwort for bathing: For patients with large area of ​​urticaria, you can take an appropriate amount of fresh mugwort leaves and dry them, or directly buy dried mugwort leaves, wash them and put them into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, then turn to low heat and continue to cook for about 10 minutes, take out the mugwort leaves, pour the juice into the bathtub, and use it for bathing when the temperature is appropriate. It is recommended to bathe once a day. Until the hives subside.

2. Scrub with Xu Changqing and mugwort: Patients with urticaria can take appropriate amounts of Xu Changqing, Saposhnikovia divaricata, mugwort leaves, and angelica sinensis, soak them in clean water for 20 minutes, then boil them for another 20 minutes, remove the residue and keep the juice, and when the temperature of the juice is around 40C, you can use gauze dipped in the liquid medicine to scrub the affected area until the wheal surface turns red, 15 minutes at a time, twice a day, and one dose can be repeatedly decocted and washed several times. It has the effects of dispelling wind, removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and dredge meridians.

In addition to being used to boil water for bathing to treat urticaria, mugwort can also be taken internally for treatment. Patients with urticaria can take an appropriate amount of raw mugwort leaves and white wine, first boil the mugwort leaves with white wine for about 20 minutes, then discard the residue and keep the juice to take it all at once a day. It has the effect of warming the yang, consolidating the surface and relieving itching. It is suitable for patients with urticaria of the Wei Yang insolubility type accompanied by chills and spontaneous sweating.

Can bathing with mugwort cure urticaria? From the above introduction, we can see that using it to treat urticaria can achieve very good results. Mugwort can not only be used for bathing, but also can be taken internally to treat urticaria. For patients with urticaria, you may choose to use it for bathing or taking it internally to better eliminate the symptoms of urticaria. Especially for pregnant women and children, it is more suitable to use mugwort externally for treatment.