Wormwood is often used to expel ghosts, evil spirits and pests on the Dragon Boat Festival, but in winter, many people also use wormwood to fumigate and soak their feet. Many people want to know whether wormwood foot soaking can lose weight? What effect does wormwood soak feet have? In this article, let's learn about the function and taboo of wormwood foot soaking.
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1、 Can wormwood soak your feet to lose weight?
Wormwood feet can lose weight. Wormwood foot soaking can promote blood circulation and speed up blood flow. When soaking feet, the body will feel fever. In fact, it means that the excess fat in the body is burning. When the body perspires, the fat is transformed into heat and eliminated from the body with the sweat, so as to achieve the effect of weight loss. In addition, wormwood contains a large number of volatile oil, trace elements, flavonoids, polysaccharides and other organic components, which can effectively help lose weight. Of course, it requires long-term persistence and a reasonable diet.
2、 How does wormwood soak feet?
Put a handful of wormwood into a clean pot, and then add an appropriate amount of water. After boiling over a high fire, continue to cook for about 10 minutes. Pour an appropriate amount of cold or warm water to adjust the water temperature and soak until the whole body is slightly sweating. When soaking your feet, you can drink some hot tea to promote sweating, but never sweat. Soaking until slightly sweating is the best effect. In addition, when soaking feet with wormwood, you can also add other materials to soak together according to your physical condition.
3、 Effect of wormwood soaking feet
1. To eliminate deficiency cold fire: oral ulcer, stomatitis, otitis media, sore throat, etc. are all caused by strong deficiency fire or strong cold fire in the body. As long as you boil wormwood and water together and soak your feet for a while, your whole body can sweat slightly.
2. Cold expelling effect: in winter when the climate is getting colder, soaking feet with wormwood leaves can play a good cold expelling effect. Soaking feet with wormwood leaves can unblock the blood and Qi of the feet, and the cold in the body naturally has nowhere to stay.
3. Treatment of colds: when you catch a cold, soak your feet with wormwood leaves to sweat. With ginger brown sugar water, you can expel the virus and cold fire out of the body in time, so that you can get well soon.
4. Bacteriostasis and sterilization: wormwood has the functions of antibacterial, antiviral, anti allergy and strengthening resistance. Therefore, soaking feet with wormwood leaves can fundamentally treat eczema and remove beriberi and tinea pedis.
4、 Usage of wormwood soaking feet
1. Pepper: soaking feet with wormwood and pepper can remove foot sweat, foot odor, beriberi, eczema, etc.
2. Safflower: soaking feet with wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.
3. Ginger tablets: wormwood and ginger tablets can be used to soak feet to treat wind cold, joint disease, rheumatoid, cough, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, etc.
4. Salt: soaking feet with wormwood and salt can cure frequent eye fire, toothache, sore throat, irritability, cold on fire, swelling of feet and legs, etc.