Can soaking your feet in mugwort leaves cure postpartum diseases?

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can eliminate cold and heat, and has a good effect in promoting the body's immunity. For pregnant women, you can use mugwort leaves to soak your feet during the confinement period. It can not only prevent postpartum diseases, but also play a certain conditioning and treatment effect after the patient has postpartum diseases. Postpartum diseases are relatively harmful to postpartum women, so regular treatment should be carried out in time, and you should also maintain a cheerful and optimistic mood at ordinary times.

Can soaking your feet in mugwort cure postpartum diseases?

1. Remove false fire and cold fire

Oral ulcers, stomatitis, otitis media, sore throat, etc. are all caused by excessive internal heat or cold fire. Just boil the mugwort and water together, soak your feet in the liquid for a while, and wait until you start to sweat all over your body. Then drink some warm water, soak your feet for two or three days, eat less cold food, and pay attention to rest, then these diseases can be well relieved.

2. Can drive away the cold

Soaking your feet in hot water every day can promote blood circulation and drive away dampness and coldness in the body. Moreover, mugwort can open up the twelve meridians and regulate yin and yang. For people with unobstructed meridians, their qi and blood will flow smoothly as well, and for people with healthy qi and blood, the cold in their body will naturally have nowhere to stay. Regarding the cold-dispelling effect of mugwort, we recommend that you use the method of moxa stick fumigation, the effect will be more obvious.

3. Remove athlete's foot and tinea pedis

Mugwort has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-allergic and immunity-enhancing functions. Targeted use and long-term persistence can eliminate athlete's foot and tinea pedis.

Nutrients needed by pregnant women

Since all nutrients increase during pregnancy compared to usual and the extent of the increase varies, it is difficult for families without nutritional awareness or nutritional conditions to provide pregnant women with a reasonable diet. By the time of delivery, many of the nutritional reserves in the pregnant woman's body have been almost depleted. These consumed nutritional reserves must be replenished as soon as possible, otherwise it will cause permanent harm to the mother. Therefore, a custom of concentrated replenishment after childbirth has gradually formed in China, which is the confinement month.

Are Chinese women too delicate and take themselves too seriously? First, let's take a look at the needs of pregnant women for several major nutrients:

1. Protein: A full-term fetus contains 400-800g of protein, plus the needs of the placenta, a total of 900g of protein is required from the mother's body.

2. Iron: The fetus needs iron to produce blood and muscles. It must also store some iron in the liver for consumption within 6 months after birth. Pregnant women also need to store extra iron to cope with the iron lost through blood loss during childbirth.

3. Calcium: The calcium content in the fetus reaches more than 20g in the late pregnancy, which means that the fetus extracts 300mg of calcium from the mother's body every day in the late pregnancy. Pregnant women also need to store 30g of calcium for breastfeeding, which means that pregnant women in the late pregnancy need to reserve 200mg per day. This means that pregnant women need to consume 500 mg more calcium per day than ordinary women.

4. B vitamins: basically proportional to the metabolic rate. Since the metabolism of pregnant women and fetuses is very high, the demand for B vitamins increases.