It is generally not recommended to use mugwort water to soak feet during pregnancy, if the use of mugwort is not symptomatic may lead to uterine bleeding or even miscarriage and other adverse reactions. Chinese medicine should be used in accordance with the evidence, if there is discomfort during pregnancy, please consult a doctor in time, after diagnosis and identification of physician symptomatic treatment.
Wormwood, also known as mugwort, is a warming and hemostatic medicine, warm, pungent and bitter in taste, with a small toxicity, belonging to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians, with the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain, regulating menstruation, and restoring the fetus, and can be used externally to dispel dampness and relieve itching.
Mugwort is commonly used clinically for deficiency cold vomiting blood, nosebleeds, excessive menstrual bleeding, cold pain in the abdomen, menstrual irregularities due to uterine cold, infertility, fetal restlessness, uterine bleeding in pregnancy, etc. It can be used externally to treat itching of the skin.
Mugwort can be used externally by decocting soup and then soaking the feet or fumigating with it, paying attention to Yin deficiency and blood heaters with caution.
It is recommended that pregnant women who have the need to use mugwort water to soak their feet carry out the relevant operations under the guidance of a doctor, so as to avoid adverse effects on the organism.