How to soak your feet with mugwort leaves

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves has a relatively good health-care effect, because mugwort leaves can help dispel cold and dampness, warm the meridians, especially if your body has a lot of dampness, soaking your feet in mugwort leaves will have a very good effect. Drinking a cup of ginger and red dates water will have a better effect in dispelling the cold.

1. Specific operation method of soaking feet with moxa sticks: separate the moxa sticks and boil the moxa wool in the moxa sticks with boiling water for about 15 minutes. Then add water to keep the temperature of the moxa water at around 40 degrees, because the most active temperature of human cells is 37-39 degrees. Too high water temperature not only inhibits biologically active enzymes, but also may cause damage to skin tissue.

2. Mugwort can dispel cold and dampness, warm and unclog the meridians. Common diseases such as common oral ulcers and sore throat can be treated by soaking feet in mugwort. It is best to soak your feet in mugwort until your whole body sweats slightly, and then drink more boiled water. Usually do it once a day for 2-3 days, and the cold, dampness and evil fire in the body will be eliminated.

3. Moxibustion can treat these minor illnesses, but soaking your feet in moxa leaves for a long time is not good, because soaking your feet in moxa leaves will draw the false fire and cold evil downward, causing qi and blood in the face and insufficient blood supply, which will cause dizziness and headaches. For foot soaking, I recommend you to use Xiangyi moxa sticks, theirs is good. At the same time, there are some precautions for foot soaking.

4. Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves will cause coldness, so you need to eat warm food. For patients with severe cold and dampness in the body, it is okay to soak your feet in mugwort water once a week, but you must stop eating all cold foods while soaking your feet in the mugwort water. You can also drink a cup of ginger and red dates water while soaking your feet in the mugwort water, which will remove the cold without causing gas.