Precautions for moxa leaf pickled feet

"Soak feet in spring, and the sun will rise. Soak feet in summer, and you will get rid of dampness and heat. Soak feet in autumn, and you will moisten your lungs and intestines. Soak feet in winter, and your elixir fields will warm." The health preservation method of soaking feet is suitable for all seasons. Hot water soaking feet is foot bath, which belongs to the content of traditional Chinese foot therapy and is also a commonly used external therapy. Foot bath has a history of thousands of years. The earliest literature record is the Jin Dynasty's "elbow backup emergency prescription", which has a history of more than 1000 years. The most important thing for health preservation in summer is to nourish the lungs, so as to reduce heat and fire. Therefore, in such a case, there is a way to help people achieve the effect of reducing summer heat, that is, add wormwood into the soaking water.

Method of soaking wormwood leaves in boiling water

1. Prepare 50g fresh wormwood leaves (only 30g dried wormwood leaves);

2. Add 1500 ml water to boil; Let the water boil for about 15 minutes after boiling, then remove the wormwood leaves;

3. Pour water into the bucket and soak your feet when the water temperature drops to about 45 ℃. If the water is cold in the process of soaking, add wormwood leaf water and soak repeatedly until you sweat slightly.

Four effects of wormwood leaf bubble feet:

1. Reduce liver fire

Artemisia argyi has the function of reducing fire, especially liver fire. However, if you are a patient with body deficiency or lack of qi and blood, you'd better not soak your feet with moxa leaves directly, but drink a bowl of jujube and longan soup before soaking your feet, which can effectively replenish your vitality; The patients with yin deficiency had better also use less moxa leaf to soak their feet. If dizziness occurs, they'd better eat shrimp to supplement, which can effectively replenish the spirit.

2. Antitussive, expectorant, anti allergic

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that the volatile oil contained in Artemisia argyi leaves has obvious antitussive, expectorant and anti allergic effects. Therefore, one of the reasons why moxa leaf decoction can stop coughing is that the volatile gas of moxa leaf is inhaled through the mouth and nose. At the same time, people's foot channels are rich, and the liver, spleen, kidney and other channels are distributed around the feet. Such a good article comes from WeChat official account Chinese medicine moxibustion, where moxa leaf decoction is used to smoke and wash the feet, and enter the lung and kidney along the channels to warm and expel pathogenic cold, and the lung and qi can be released, and cough and asthma can be stopped.

3. It can dispel cold

Soak your feet with wormwood, and the hot water will stimulate the acupuncture points on your feet. The hot air will rise from your feet, which will not only promote the blood circulation of your body, but also make your body sweat a lot, and it can easily drive away the dampness and cold in your body. Wormwood connects the twelve meridians and has a very good effect on regulating yin and yang. After the channels of the human body are unblocked, Qi and blood will become very good, and the cold in the body will be nowhere to stay, and will be forced out of the body.

4. It can cure colds

The effect of moxa leaf soaking feet on children's colds is remarkable. When children have a cold, sore throat, runny nose, aches and pains all over the body or fever, they can soak their feet with moxa leaf water. It is best to soak them until the body sweats, and the cold symptoms will be greatly reduced.

Four taboos of moxa leaf bubble feet:

1. Wormwood should not be soaked too many times.

Although there are many advantages to soaking the feet with wormwood, frequent soaking can easily lead to false fire and cold fire, insufficient blood supply to the upper body, headache, irritability, etc. It is recommended that you soak your feet with wormwood leaf once a week.

2. People with yin deficiency and blood heat should not use wormwood feet.

It is mentioned in the Materia Medica Preparation and the Sutra Encountering the Source that those with yin deficiency and blood heat should not use wormwood leaves. Such people not only cannot achieve the effect of health care, but also make birthday loss.

3. Although moxa leaf soaked feet have many benefits, the soaking time should not be too long

It is generally controlled within 15-30 minutes. When feet are soaked, the blood will flow to the lower limbs. If the time of soaking is too long, it is easy to have insufficient blood supply to the brain.

4. Patients with beriberi or damaged feet should not soak their feet in hot water

In case of severe beriberi or foot inflammation and skin disease, soaking feet in hot water will aggravate the disease, because it is easy to cause wound infection, which will adversely affect the body.