Can soaking your feet in mugwort cure a cold?

Hospitals are always the busiest when the seasons change, especially the emergency rooms, where there are long lines of people waiting to be treated for colds. However, there are also many traditional remedies for treating colds, such as soaking feet in mugwort leaves. Many people catch colds for many reasons, but many people go to the doctor to get a lot of medicine. Some people don't take it seriously at all, which delays normal treatment. If the cold is not cured for a long time, it will also cause other diseases.

Catching a cold, especially a summer cold, is definitely a very uncomfortable thing for most people. If you don't actively treat it, the condition will definitely get worse. Therefore, it is important for many people to know whether soaking feet in mugwort leaves can cure colds.

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can cure colds. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the feet are the concentration point of the human body's meridians. The pathological changes of the internal organs can affect each other through the meridians, and by dredging the meridians of Qi and blood, the effect of treating the pathological changes of the internal organs can be achieved. Foot soaking is very beneficial to your health. Soaking your feet with mugwort leaves can fully utilize the medicinal effects of mugwort leaves. When you catch a cold, have a runny nose, a sore throat, body aches, or have a fever, you can soak your feet in mugwort water until your body sweats, and you must also drink ginger and brown sugar water at the same time.

Mugwort, also known as "wormwood", is a perennial herb. As early as the Book of Songs era, mugwort was already a very important plant for people's livelihood. Mugwort has a strong and fragrant smell, and people in the south hang it on their doors during the Dragon Boat Festival. There is also a milder scent that is edible.

Mugwort tastes pungent and 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.

However, for people with weak constitution and insufficient qi and blood, it is recommended to drink a bowl of red dates and longan soup or tea before soaking feet to replenish the vital energy that may be lost in the body; and if people with yin deficiency experience dizziness after soaking feet in mugwort, please eat some warm tonic food, because after expelling the evil fire in the body, the body's ability to absorb nutrients will be greatly enhanced.

Through the introduction of the above content, we can understand that soaking feet with mugwort leaves can cure colds, which usually expel evil fire from the body and have the effect of relieving asthma, etc. Knowing these effects, family members can control the symptoms of colds by soaking their feet in mugwort leaves. Once the symptoms are more serious, they will need to take some medicine or go to the hospital.