What are the effects of soaking your feet in mugwort and ginger

Many people soak their feet every night because it has many benefits for health, especially for relieving a day's fatigue. If you add some medicinal materials to the foot bath, it will be very helpful in treating and alleviating diseases in the body. Adding mugwort and ginger to the foot bath is a particularly good choice, and it is the choice of many friends who like to maintain their health.

Benefit 1

Mugwort, also known as mugwort, is a perennial herb that has been around since the Book of Songs era. Mugwort has become a very important plant for people's livelihood. In addition to a type of mugwort with a strong fragrance, people in the south hang it above their doors during the Dragon Boat Festival. There is also a type with a milder smell that can be eaten. Mugwort tastes pungent and bitter, and is warm in nature; it enters the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians; it is aromatic, warm and dispersing, and can rise or fall; it has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain, reducing dampness and killing insects: soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can also effectively dispel cold and dampness and reduce liver fire. In addition, mugwort has medicinal value and has antibacterial, antiasthmatic, choleretic and hemostatic effects.

Benefit 2

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can drive away the cold in winter and regulate the yin and yang of the twelve meridians. It can eliminate false fire and cold fire, and treat oral ulcers, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other diseases related to false fire and cold fire that recur in the head and face. Reduce fever.

Benefit 3

Soaking your feet in ginger can effectively prevent and relieve the following diseases: colds, headaches, oral ulcers, periodontitis, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, back pain, acne, and mental weakness.

How to soak your feet with mugwort and ginger

It takes 20-30 minutes, depending on your preferences and circumstances. However, there are many things to note, for example, soaking your feet in moxa leaves will cause coldness and you need to eat warm food, and consider your own physical condition, etc. Otherwise, not only will it not improve your physical condition, but other bad situations may also occur.

The frequency and time of foot bathing with mugwort and ginger

1. Soak your feet several times a day: For general health care, once a day is enough; if you have a certain disease, soak your feet at least twice a day.

2. What is the best time to soak your feet every day: 2 times, usually once at 10 am and once before going to bed at night. Soaking your feet before going to bed is very beneficial for eliminating fatigue and can make people sleep more soundly and easily enter the state of "falling on bed and no longer hearing the bells and drums". The sayings “Take three hundred steps after a meal and drink a bowl of soup before bed” and “Washing your feet before bed is better than taking tonics” are widely circulated.