What are the benefits of soaking your feet in mugwort and ginger?

Soaking your feet with mugwort and ginger has great health benefits. Soaking your feet with this formula can stimulate our body's meridians, regulate disordered body functions, and also has a certain effect in preventing diseases. Soaking feet in mugwort leaves and ginger has a very ideal effect of warming the meridians and collaterals, as well as removing blood stasis and dispersing nodules. Foot bath with mugwort and ginger is very suitable for friends who need warmth, and can replenish the body's yang energy well. Let’s take a look at the specific benefits of soaking your feet in mugwort and ginger.

Ginger also has its effects. Soak your feet in mugwort and ginger, with the water reaching up to your ankles, and soak until the soles of your feet turn red. This method is effective in treating colds, headaches, and coughs. In addition, when blood pressure rises, you can soak your feet in hot ginger water for about 15 minutes. Soaking your feet in hot ginger water can reflexly cause blood vessels to dilate, thereby lowering blood pressure. In addition, soaking your feet in ginger water can prevent and treat varicose veins in the lower limbs, and soaking your feet with ginger and vinegar together can cure insomnia. Soaking your feet with mugwort and ginger together has the benefits of combining both. It can treat colds, joint diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, coughs, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

Boil a handful of mugwort leaves in water and then soak your feet in it, or take a quarter of the moxa sticks made of pure mugwort leaves, tear them into pieces and put them in a foot bath bucket. Then add ginger and brew it with boiling water for a while. After the mugwort leaves are soaked, add some warm water. Isn’t it simple? You can also make it yourself at home, just prepare mugwort leaves and ginger. You need to pay attention when soaking. It will only be effective if you soak until your whole body sweats slightly, but not profusely. Then drink more warm water. Generally, soak 2-3 times in a row, but not every day, you should soak every other day. After soaking, drink more warm water, avoid eating cold food, and get enough rest. The discomforts in the head, face, and throat caused by false fire and cold fire will be significantly improved or disappear, and the cold will be driven away for you. Isn’t that great?

It should be noted that although soaking feet with mugwort and ginger has a good health-preserving effect, if the inflammation on the feet is severe, such as after a scratch, it is best not to use mugwort and ginger to soak feet, and the water temperature should not be too high when soaking feet. The best time for soaking your feet is generally about 10 to 20 minutes. Soaking your feet for too long can easily make you tired.