Soaking legs in water boiled with mugwort leaves does not necessarily relieve leg pain.
Leg pain is caused by more reasons, damp-heat injection (dampness and heat evil invade the intestines, bladder, Yin, lower limbs, etc.), wind-heat paralysis and other causes of leg pain can not be relieved by moxa leaves boiled in water and soaked in the foot.
1. Damp-heat injection: moxa leaves are warm and hot drugs, can not relieve the leg pain caused by damp-heat injection, but will aggravate the condition, so this kind of patients are not recommended to moxa leaves foot soak.
2. Wind-heat paralysis: wind-heat paralysis caused by leg pain is mainly “wind, heat, dampness” three evil invasion of meridians, can not be relieved through the moxa foot soak, on the contrary, it will exacerbate the degree of heat, resulting in more serious symptoms.
With moxa foot soak to relieve leg pain, should be carried out under the guidance of a physician, the foot soak may not be able to relieve, but may lead to aggravation of the pain.