With ginger, mugwort leaves, pepper daily foot soak generally does not cause fire, the drug foot soak mainly through the transdermal absorption of drugs, due to the limitations of the time of foot soak and the limitations of the dose of the drug, the drug can be absorbed transdermally is very limited, so the foot soak to play the efficacy of the drug is very limited, generally do not achieve the special therapeutic effect.
Ginger is mildly warm and pungent in nature, belonging to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effect of relieving surface cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscle), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming up the spleen and stomach), resolving phlegm and stopping cough, and relieving the toxicity of fishes and crabs. Ginger can be used to treat wind-cold cold, cold stomach and vomiting, cold phlegm and cough.
Ai Ye is warm in nature, pungent and bitter in flavor, and belongs to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians, with a small poison. Ai Ye has the effect of warming menstruation, stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and can be used externally to dispel dampness and relieve itching. Ai Ye can be used to treat hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling), excessive menstruation, fetal leakage (small amount of vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy), hyperemia, cold pain in the abdomen, etc. Externally, it can be used to treat itching.
Pepper is warm in nature, pungent in flavor, belonging to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, with the effect of warming the middle and relieving pain (relieving pain by warming the spleen and stomach), killing insects and relieving itching. Pepper is used internally for cold pain in the stomach and abdomen (feeling cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), vomiting and diarrhea.
The three medicines are warm in nature, taking too much or too long of the above medicines orally may lead to fire, using the above medicines to soak the feet will not generally lead to fire.