What are the benefits of soaking your feet in mugwort and ginger?

As society continues to develop, people's awareness of health care is constantly increasing. For example, foot soaking is a very popular way to maintain health. There are many ways to soak your feet, and soaking your feet with mugwort and ginger is one of them. This way of soaking your feet can relieve physical fatigue, help us sleep better at night, and promote improved blood circulation in the feet. Let’s take a detailed look at the benefits of soaking your feet in mugwort and ginger.

Mugwort, also known as mugwort, is a perennial herb that has been around since the Book of Songs era. Mugwort has become a very important plant for people's livelihood. In addition to a type of mugwort with a strong fragrance, people in the south hang it above their doors during the Dragon Boat Festival. There is also a type with a milder smell that can be eaten. Mugwort tastes pungent/bitter and is warm in nature; it enters the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians; it is aromatic, warm and dispersing, and can rise or fall; it has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain, reducing dampness and killing insects: soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can also effectively dispel cold and dampness and reduce liver fire. In addition, mugwort has medicinal value and has antibacterial, antiasthmatic, choleretic and hemostatic effects.

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can drive away the cold in winter and regulate the yin and yang of the twelve meridians. It can eliminate false fire and cold fire, and treat oral ulcers, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other diseases related to false fire and cold fire that recur in the head and face. Reduce fever. Soaking your feet in ginger can effectively prevent and relieve the following diseases: colds, headaches, and oral ulcers. Periodontitis, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, low back pain, acne, and mental weakness. How long should each foot soak last? Generally, it should be more than 30 minutes, but for conditions such as chronic rheumatoid arthritis, chronic hypertension, etc., the duration should be extended appropriately. The specific time for each session needs to be gradually adjusted based on the age, gender, medical condition, etc. of the person soaking the feet, as well as the feelings after soaking the feet.

I believe that friends have already had a certain understanding of the benefits of soaking feet in mugwort and ginger. The weather is getting hotter in winter, and soaking feet in mugwort and ginger can drive away the coldness in our body. This method of foot soaking can also kill many kinds of fungi and has a certain therapeutic effect on athlete's foot. However, please note that if you have poor heart function or high blood pressure, you should not soak your feet for too long.