Soak your feet with wormwood in cold weather.

Soaking feet in cold weather, happiness is like a fairy! Since ancient times, there have been "soaking feet in spring, rising sun taking off;" Soaking feet in summer can clear away heat and damp; Soak your feet in autumn, moisten your lungs and intestines; Soak your feet in winter, and your abdomen is warm and irritable. People in China are very particular about soaking their feet. When soaking feet with hot water, the temperature of feet rises, the peripheral blood vessels of legs and feet gradually expand, and the blood flow of feet increases, thus relaxing the whole body and promoting sleep.

What role does wormwood play in soaking feet? In addition to medicine, wormwood can also be used externally, and its external health care effect is praised by many people.

As we all know, wormwood has the function of driving away cold. Hot water plus wormwood can stimulate the acupoints of feet to accelerate blood circulation, regulate yin and yang and drive away dampness and cold in the body.

Contemporary pharmacological research on wormwood shows that the volatile oil in wormwood has antitussive, expectorant and antiallergic effects, and the soles of feet are rich in meridians. Soaking your feet with water boiled in mugwort leaves can enter the lungs and kidneys along the meridians. In addition, the aroma of wormwood is distributed to the nasal cavity through hot water to relieve respiratory discomfort.

Wormwood can prevent respiratory diseases and inhibit skin fungi. Fungi are mostly caused by heat toxin, and wormwood has a good effect on fungal dermatosis by clearing away heat and removing dampness.

Here, we recommend several better formulas for foot soaking with wormwood, which can play a greater role as long as they are simply matched.

Wormwood+ginger: Both wormwood and ginger have the effects of eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, and the combination of the two drugs has a good effect on colds, bronchitis and asthma. In addition, it also has a good curative effect on joint diseases caused by dampness and cold.

Wormwood+safflower: safflower has a good effect on blood circulation, while wormwood and safflower can get twice the result with half the effort through hot water, which can relieve body cold, congestion and varicose veins.

Wormwood+salt: wormwood with salt has the function of reducing fire, and has certain curative effect on sore throat, periodontal pain and irritability caused by excessive internal heat.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi+Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the function of dispelling dampness and dispelling cold, and it can foster strengths and avoid weaknesses when matched with Folium Artemisiae Argyi, and has auxiliary effects on eczema, foot odor and gynecology.

These people should be careful when soaking their feet.

1. Diabetic foot patients. The skin of diabetic foot patients is fragile, and the peripheral nerves of the foot are not sensitive to temperature. Normal people feel that the water is very hot, but they can't feel it, so they are easily scalded. Once scalded, even a small blister, if not treated in time, may lead to foot infection, ulceration, and even severe amputation.

2. Patients with varicose veins. The main cause of varicose veins is venous valve insufficiency. The increase of foot temperature will only increase local blood flow, but will not change the speed of venous reflux. On the contrary, it may increase the burden of venous reflux, lead to further expansion of varicose veins, aggravate congestion of lower limbs and aggravate the condition. It is very likely that your feet will become more and more swollen, so don't soak your feet or legs with hot water, and don't warm your feet with hot water bottles or take a sauna.

3. Patients with dermatoses such as tinea pedis. Many people mistakenly believe that soaking feet can relieve the symptoms of tinea pedis. In fact, soaking feet with hot water may lead to secondary bacterial infection. For broken skin wounds, soaking feet with hot water is even worse. Be sure to open the wound, dry and ventilated. Patients with diseases such as herpes and eczema on their feet should not soak their feet with hot water. Once the skin is broken, it is easy to cause infection.

4. children. If the child's feet are not very cold, there is no need to soak them. The arch of human foot is gradually formed in childhood. At this time, if you often soak your feet with hot water, the ligaments on the soles of your feet may become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch. In the long run, it will increase the risk of forming flat feet.

There are many precautions for wormwood to soak feet. Although soaking feet in wormwood is a very daily health care method, it is also a little particular when using it. After all, Chinese medicine pays attention to balance.

1, wormwood foot bath time should not be too long, generally 20 minutes, otherwise it is easy to have insufficient blood supply to the head.

2, wormwood foot bath should not be too frequent. Generally, children can take a bath with wormwood once a week 1-2 times, and the water temperature should not be overheated. It is best for the elderly to soak their feet with mugwort leaves 2-3 times a week. Remember that a good prescription is often used and will eventually consume energy.

3. Soaking the script of Artemisia argyi leaves will have the effect of purging fire. At this time, it is not advisable to eat raw and cold food, otherwise it is easy to diarrhea too much.

4, wormwood will sweat slightly when soaking feet. At this time, it is best to wear more clothes to keep warm and avoid catching a cold.