Willow leaf foot bath efficacy and function

The willow tree, which is familiar to all of us, has many uses. The young buds of the willow leaves are rich in protein. After being dried, the willow leaves can be fried or made into tea. Many people are not familiar with this way of consumption. After brewing tea with willow leaves, the tea will be emerald green, fragrant and delicious. If you drink water soaked with willow leaves for a long time, it will have a good effect on preventing and curing diseases and is beneficial to your health.

Willow leaf foot bath treatment method:

Use fresh young willow leaves for decoction. Then take the boiled willow leaves to soak your feet. If the ulcer is only between the toes, you can roll fresh young willow leaves into small balls and clamp them between the toes. If you use the method circulated on the Internet for a few days, athlete's foot will be cured.

Precautions for soaking your feet with willow leaves

Although young weeping willow leaves can be effective in treating athlete's foot, there are many species of willow, and ordinary people cannot identify them, so they will inevitably mistake ordinary young willow leaves for weeping willow leaves. If ordinary young willow leaves are mistaken for young weeping willow leaves, it will be counterproductive. Not only will it fail to cure athlete's foot, it may even aggravate the symptoms.

Medicinal value of willow leaves

Willow Leaf:

Willow leaves have the effects of clearing, dispersing, diuresis, anti-inflammatory and detoxification. Injections made from willow leaves are effective in treating upper respiratory tract infections, tracheitis, pneumonia, cystitis, suppurative mumps, mastitis, and pharyngitis. Willow leaves are also rich in iodine, which is a good medicine for treating central goiter. If used alternately with kelp, the effect will be better.

Willow Leaves

Tree, up to 18 meters high. The branches are slender, erect or spreading, yellow to brown, slightly pubescent or glabrous. The leaves are lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, with a long and gradually pointed tip, a rounded or cuneate base, finely serrated edges, pubescent along the midrib above, pale or whitish beneath; petioles 2-4 mm long or nearly sessile; stipules lanceolate or absent, with serrated edges and glandular dots. Dioecious, male inflorescence is short, cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 cm long, with long hairs on the inflorescence axis; bracts are broadly ovate, obtuse at the apex; 2 stamens, filaments with soft hairs at the base, anthers yellow; female inflorescence is very small, 10-25 mm long, with soft hairs on the inflorescence axis, and female flowers have 2 glands. Capsule. The seeds are extremely small. Flowering period is April. Fruiting period is May. Grown on river banks, plateaus and fixed sandy land. Distributed in Northeast China, North China, as well as Gansu, Qinghai, Shandong, Anhui and other places.