Enhancing the quality of life, we have been far from satisfied with the pursuit of better food, clothing, housing and transportation, health gradually become the performance of quality life. Not only that, people live a generally more stressful life, appropriate health, can help people better relieve stress, eliminate fatigue, get physical and mental pleasure. Of course, we never give up the pursuit of the most ultimate goal of health care, a long and healthy life.
There are many ways to maintain health, including diet, exercise, massage and so on. Today we are going to talk about foot soaking for health.
Footbath is a very favorite way of health, the effect of fatigue is very obvious. After the end of a day of fatigue work, can comfortably soak a foot, become the most acceptable way of many people's health.
Of course, not only to soak their feet, many people do not forget to "add some material" in the water. The material here is not a hot pot with a variety of seasonings, but the mugwort leaves.
Chinese people are certainly no strangers to mugwort leaves. When I was very young, during the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to eating rice dumplings, one of the things that every family would do was to put mugwort in front of the door. It can be said that the efficacy of wormwood to dispel diseases and ward off evil spirits from ancient times has been recognized by the people.
So it's only natural that mugwort leaves can be used to soak feet and even baths to get rid of diseases and relieve fatigue.
Is this really the case? The benefits of foot soaking in mugwort leaves are indeed quite a lot.
The moxa leaf foot bath can drive away the cold, especially in winter, people are feeling the body cold, cold hands and feet. Add some mugwort leaves when you soak your feet, you can obviously feel the effect of driving away the cold. Some people belong to the cold body, not only in winter, all year round there will be cold hands and feet performance, commonly used in moxa foot soak, such symptoms can be greatly relieved.
Allspice foot soak can also remove dampness, dampness is also a lot of people do not pay attention to health often have a situation. Dampness is too heavy not only but the body balance is damaged performance, but also can cause the body of obesity. A significant portion of the obesity is often caused by inadvertent dampness. Wormwood foot soak has the effect of removing dampness like this.
Mugwort foot soak can cure foot odor, foot odor is also a long-term plague of people an inconspicuous minor ailment. Give people trouble at the same time is not easy to remove, treatment is very troublesome, the effect is not ideal. The antiviral and antibacterial effects of mugwort have long been explained to us by the ancients, so using mugwort to soak your feet can effectively alleviate the symptoms of foot odor, and there is also the possibility of a cure for long-term persistence.
With so many benefits of moxa foot soak, the method is also very important.
It is believed that there are a lot of people with moxa foot soak method is directly in the foot soak in the water to add a handful of moxa leaves, along with the foot soak together to help moxa soak a bath. This is not the right approach, not to achieve the desired effect not to mention, but also a waste of moxa leaves.
The correct approach is to put the leaves into the pot to boil, boil and continue to simmer for 10 minutes. This kind of moxa leaf water foot soak is effective. Of course, not directly with such aiye water can be water, but the water will be cooled to the temperature can be used to soak feet, not mixed with water.
The time to soak your feet also has to pay attention to, although we usually soak your feet after dinner, but it is best not to eat immediately after soaking your feet. Immediately soak your feet will accelerate the body's blood circulation, it is the stomach and intestines to step up the work of the time, will affect digestion and absorption.
The foot of mugwort is good, but not too greedy. Mugwort has a certain medicinal properties, too frequent use of Mugwort feet, often cause the body of false fire and other adverse conditions, the loss is not worth it.