Soaking feet with mugwort leaves can not only dissipate cold and relieve pain, warm the menstruation and stop bleeding, but also effectively remove the dark circles under the eyes caused by the deficiency fire in the body.

According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", mugwort is a medicine that is warm in nature, bitter in flavor and non-toxic. It has the efficacy of returning to the sun, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and stabilizing the fetus, etc. It is also commonly used in acupuncture, so it is also known as "medical grass". Wormwood foot bath can also improve lung function, for people suffering from chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white phlegm is very good.

Wormwood foot soak method and ginger foot soak method is similar, generally take 30-50 grams (a small handful) of dried wormwood boiled water foot soak, cooking method is the same as previously mentioned. Patients with heavy body cold and dampness can soak their feet in mugwort once a week. You can also drink a cup of ginger and red dates water (10 dried red dates with two slices of ginger, boiled in ten bowls of water for two hours) as an aid while soaking your feet in mugwort water.

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p>Mugwort has a close relationship with the Chinese life, every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put Ai in the home to "avoid evil spirits", culm withered after the plant soak fumigation to achieve disinfection to stop itching, fumigation of mothers and children with Ai leaves can inhibit staphylococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Escherichia coli and other more than 10 kinds of common bacterial growth, but also can be on the Hepatitis B virus inactivation, and fumigation of air parameters can reach normal, maternal and newborn toxicity is small, less stimulation, so more mothers use moxa water bath or fumigation.

Traditional medicinal theories suggest that mugwort has the ability to regulate qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, warm menstruation, stop bleeding, and stabilize the fetus. Modern experimental research has proved that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; asthma, cough and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and antiallergic effects; hepatoprotective and choleretic effects. Mugwort can be used as "mugwort tea", "mugwort soup", "mugwort porridge" and other recipes to enhance the body's resistance to disease.

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