Can mugwort foot soaks help with weight loss? What are the benefits and contraindications?

Every Dragon Boat Festival, people gather mugwort and place it in their homes, and dried mugwort is also used for soaking and fumigation. So can mugwort foot soaks actually help with weight loss? What are the benefits and contraindications? Let's take a look below.

1. Can mugwort foot soaks help with weight loss?

Mugwort foot soaks can help with weight loss. Mugwort foot soaks promote blood circulation and speed up blood flow. During the soak, the body feels a sensation of heat, which in fact indicates that excess fat in the body is being burned. When the body sweats, the fat is converted into heat and expelled from the body with the sweat, thereby achieving a weight-loss effect. In addition, mugwort contains a large amount of volatile oils as well as trace elements, flavonoids, polysaccharides and other organic components, and these substances can effectively help with weight loss. Of course, this requires long-term persistence and a reasonable diet in daily life.

2. How do you do a mugwort foot soak?

Put a handful of mugwort into a clean pot, then add an appropriate amount of clean water. After bringing it to a boil over high heat, continue to simmer for about ten minutes, then pour in an appropriate amount of cold water or warm water to adjust the water temperature. Soak until the whole body is slightly sweaty. While soaking your feet, you can drink some hot tea to encourage sweating, but absolutely do not work up a dripping sweat; soaking until slightly sweaty gives the best effect. In addition, when soaking your feet with mugwort, you can also add other materials according to your own physical condition and soak them together.

3. Benefits of mugwort foot soaks

1. Clearing deficiency cold-fire: Mouth ulcers, stomatitis, otitis media, sore throat and so on are all caused by excess deficiency fire or excess cold-fire in the body. Simply boil mugwort together with water, then soak your feet for a while until the whole body breaks into a slight sweat.

2. Dispelling cold: Soaking your feet with mugwort leaves in the increasingly cold winter can have a very good cold-dispelling effect. Soaking your feet with mugwort leaves can make the qi and blood in the feet flow smoothly, and the cold in the body will naturally have nowhere to stay.

3. Treating colds: When you catch a cold from chilling, soak your feet with mugwort leaves until the body sweats, and pair it with ginger brown sugar water. This can promptly expel the virus and cold-fire from the body, so the cold can soon be cured.

4. Inhibiting bacteria and sterilizing: Mugwort has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-allergic and immunity-strengthening functions. Therefore, soaking your feet with mugwort leaves can fundamentally play a role in treating eczema, and can also remove athlete's foot, foot fungus and so on.

4. How to use mugwort foot soaks

1. Sichuan pepper: Soaking your feet with mugwort plus Sichuan pepper can remove foot sweat, foot odor, athlete's foot, eczema and so on.

2. Safflower: Soaking your feet with mugwort plus safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of the hands and feet or blood stasis and so on.

3. Ginger slices: Soaking your feet with mugwort plus ginger slices can treat wind-cold colds, joint disease, rheumatoid arthritis, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma and so on.

4. Table salt: Soaking your feet with mugwort plus table salt can treat frequent eye fire, toothache, sore throat, irritability and restlessness, upper fire with lower cold, swelling of the feet and legs and so on.