Who is not suitable for mugwort foot bath

The Dragon Boat Festival is not only about eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats, but some traditional families will also buy mugwort leaves on the street or pick them from the hillsides and hang them in front of their doors, because in their eyes mugwort leaves have a very good function of warding off evil spirits. As a traditional Chinese medicinal material, mugwort has a very wide range of uses in traditional Chinese medicine. Soaking your feet in mugwort can also effectively remove moisture and toxins from the body, but why can't you use mugwort to soak your feet?

People who are not suitable for soaking their feet with mugwort leaves

Artemisia annua is known as the king of all medicines. Using it for foot soaking can enhance one's yang energy. However, there are many benefits to soaking your feet in mugwort leaves, but not everyone is suitable for soaking your feet in mugwort leaves.

1. When you soak your feet in mugwort leaves, the blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply at this time. Therefore, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly who are prone to chest tightness and dizziness should not soak their feet in mugwort leaves.

2. Women during menstruation should not use mugwort to soak their feet. If necessary, consult a doctor first.

3. If you are a patient with diabetes or fever, you need to soak your feet in moxa leaves under the guidance of a doctor.

4. Children should not soak their feet in overheated water. If children's feet are often soaked or washed in overheated water, flat feet are likely to occur.

5. Generally speaking, people with overly sensitive skin or severe skin diseases are not suitable to use mugwort leaves for foot soaking or bathing.

6. People with weak constitutions cannot be nourished, and eating some nourishing foods will cause toothache, mouth ulcers, etc. They are not suitable for soaking their feet in mugwort leaves. However, they can use warm water to soak their feet.

7. In the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, "foot soaking in medicinal soup" can not only relieve fatigue, but also is effective for stroke, dysmenorrhea, colds, chronic gastritis, hypertension, etc. However, this can only play an auxiliary therapeutic role. Do not use it as a treatment method to avoid delaying the disease.

How to soak your feet with mugwort leaves

After understanding the effects and functions of soaking feet in mugwort leaves, let’s now talk about the method of soaking feet in mugwort leaves. Soaking your feet in mugwort water can effectively eliminate false fire and cold fire, and can treat oral ulcers, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other recurring diseases of the head and face that are related to false fire and cold fire, especially the effect of reducing liver fire. However, if the patient is physically weak or has insufficient qi and blood, it is best not to soak your feet directly with mugwort leaves. Instead, you should drink a bowl of red dates and longan soup before soaking your feet, which can effectively replenish the body's vitality; patients with yin deficiency should also use mugwort leaves to soak their feet less often. If dizziness occurs, it is best to eat shrimps to supplement it, which can effectively replenish your essence, qi and spirit.

The specific method is as follows: Put a handful of mugwort leaves into a clean pot, then add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat and continue to simmer for about ten minutes before taking out. Wait until the water cools down naturally enough to soak your feet. When soaking your feet, you must not sweat profusely all over your body. Instead, you should stop when you start to sweat slightly. Then massage the Yongquan point about a hundred times and you can go to sleep. Whenever the above-mentioned diseases occur, take a handful of moxa leaves (50-100 grams), boil them in water and then soak your feet, or take a quarter of the moxa sticks made of pure moxa leaves, tear them into pieces and put them in a foot bath bucket, soak them with boiling water for a while, and then soak your feet in some warm water after the moxa leaves are soaked. Soak until your whole body sweats slightly, but not profusely. Drink more warm water. Generally, soak your feet for 2-3 days in a row. At the same time, drink more warm boiled water, do not eat cold food, and pay attention to rest. The discomforts in the head, face, and throat caused by virtual fire and cold fire will be significantly improved or disappear.