Can you take a bath with mugwort?

Taking a bath is an essential activity for people. Usually people take a bath once every three days or so, while some people who like cleanliness take a bath once a day. People can also add various items to the bath water to achieve the effect of regulating the body. Mugwort is a common plant in people's lives. It is also a traditional Chinese medicine with many benefits for the human body. So can mugwort be used for bathing?

Mugwort can be put in the bath water for bathing.

The best way is to boil the leaves of dried mugwort in water and then take a bath. However, it is best not to use for pregnant women, menstruating women, infants, people with allergies, and wounds (broken wind).

Bathing in water boiled with mugwort has the effects of anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, detoxification and improving immunity.

Other uses:

1. Drink mugwort tea for irregular menstruation

Many women have problems with irregular menstruation and cold hands and feet. Drinking mugwort tea can have a very good effect at this time.

In addition, if women experience edema before and after their menstrual period or after staying up late to work overtime, they can try drinking mugwort tea to reduce the swelling. The effect will be better if it is combined with ginger, brown sugar, and jujube.

Specific approach

Take 15 grams of fresh moxa leaves, wash them, add 5 slices of ginger, 5 dates, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar, decoct in water and take it for female dysmenorrhea.

Or take 15 grams of fresh mugwort leaves and 20 grams of white sugar, cook them together into a soup and drink it. It is suitable for women suffering from menstrual irritability, red and burning pain in urine, dry and bitter mouth, etc. You can also take about 3 grams of dried moxa leaves and brew it with boiling water as tea.

2. Drink mugwort and egg soup for uterine cold

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Mugwort warms the middle, expels cold and removes dampness." For women with uterine cold or infertility, mugwort can warm the uterus and relieve pain. Mugwort and donkey-hide gelatin can also warm the uterus and stop bleeding.

Specific approach

Ingredients: 300 grams of mugwort leaves, 4 eggs, 30 grams of ginger, pepper, oil and salt as appropriate.

First, beat the eggs into a bowl and stir thoroughly. Chop the ginger, then add pepper, minced ginger, oil, and salt and mix well. Then add appropriate amount of oil into the pot, pour the mixed eggs into the pot and fry into an omelet. Then cut into small pieces, add boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Finally, add mugwort leaves, cook for 3 to 5 minutes, and season.

3. Take a moxa bath for joint pain

Many women will experience joint pain after childbirth. In addition to changes in hormone levels, women's body shape also changes significantly during pregnancy. These changes will cause significant changes in the stress points of the spine and lower limb joints.

After childbirth, the body is "unburdened" and the stress points of the joints have to be readjusted. This kind of "tossing and turning" back and forth can easily cause weak mothers to suffer from joint pain. It is recommended to take an wormwood bath, which can effectively relieve joint pain.

Specific approach

Use 100 grams of fresh mugwort (or 50 grams of dried mugwort) and a few slices of ginger to boil half a bucket of water. Pour the water into a hot water tub at a suitable temperature and use it for bathing.

Mugwort has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming meridians, expelling cold and dampness and relieving pain. Postpartum women are prone to wind, cold and dampness due to deficiency of qi and blood, so they should use mugwort to boil water for bathing.