Although foot odor is not a big problem, once it itches, it is really unbearable and uncomfortable. And many people recommend using mugwort to soak feet in summer, is mugwort soaking feet to cure foot odor effective? Take a look at it.

Is it good to soak feet with mugwort leaves

Mugwort has antibacterial and antiseptic effect, and it has strong inhibition effect on many kinds of disease-causing skin fungi, and it can treat many kinds of skin diseases. When there is a slight foot odor, that is, when there is simple foot sweating, foot odor, you can soak your feet in mugwort leaves boiled water, and if you add some ginger in the water, the effect of treating foot odor will be better. Therefore, the use of moxa leaves foot soak on the treatment of foot odor is a certain role. However, it can only treat mild foot fungus, when the foot skin is infected by fungus very seriously, it means that foot fungus has been very serious, and there is no way to improve it with the help of foot soak in mugwort leaves, you still need to consult a doctor.

Dosage and method of foot soak for foot fungus

The specific usage of foot soak for foot fungus is to put 50 grams of mugwort leaves into a gauze bag and tie it tightly, put it into a pot and add water, boil it on high heat, then boil it on low heat for 5 to 10 minutes, and then take the juice. Add the juice to hot water at a temperature of 40℃ or 50℃ and soak for half an hour. Once boiled juice can be soaked for 2 to 3 days, with a container, do not have to change every day. The best way to soak your feet is to use a wooden basin. Copper pots and other metal pots in the chemical composition is not stable, easy to react with the tannins in the Chinese medicine, generating iron tannins and other harmful substances, so that the efficacy of the drug is greatly reduced.

In addition, take 500 grams of mugwort leaves, evenly divided into 20 parts, 1 part per day (plus 100 grams of vinegar, 20 peppercorns of pepper, 2 tablespoons of salt), wrapped in gauze and boiled in water - the amount of water to diffuse to the ankles can be, soak your feet while they are still hot, to the extent of 15 to 30 minutes. This formula can remove the necrotic old skin on the feet, callus, frostbite, cracks, gray nails, tinea pedis and corns that do not heal for many years, but also make the feet smooth and delicate.

Mugwort's function and efficacy 1, regulating qi and blood

Mugwort can expel cold and dampness, warm menstruation, stop bleeding, and stabilize the fetus. It can cure cold pain in heart and abdomen, diarrhea and cramps, chronic dysentery, epistaxis, hemorrhage, irregular menstruation, leakage, subluxation, restlessness of fetus, carbuncle ulcer and scabies.

2, can dispel cold and dampness, warm menstruation and stop bleeding

Mugwort, also known as fragrant mugwort, herbs, mugwort, bitter, pungent, warm, into the spleen, liver, kidney meridian.

It is suitable for cold bleeding and abdominal pain, for women's cold menstrual disorders, abdominal pain, collapse and leakage has obvious curative effect, is a kind of gynecological medicine. Now it is the time to market the mugwort, mugwort can be made mochi snacks, processed into a variety of dishes and medicinal meals.

3, antimicrobial

The smoldering of moxa can still reduce the bacteria on burn wounds. Guinea pig tuberculosis after moxibustion treatment, the disease progresses slower, lesions are lighter, especially in the later stages of the disease more obvious;