Can pregnant women take a bath with mugwort?

Mugwort is a Chinese herbal medicine. You can use it for bathing, eat it, or do moxibustion. Bathing with mugwort can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, and stop bleeding. Some pregnant women often take baths with mugwort before they become pregnant, and they want to continue taking baths with mugwort after they become pregnant, but they don’t know if they can continue taking baths with mugwort at this time. Can pregnant women take baths with mugwort? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Can pregnant women take a bath with mugwort?

The answer is yes, and there are many benefits.

2. What are the benefits of taking a bath with mugwort for pregnant women?

First, mugwort has the effects of regulating qi and blood, expelling cold and dampness, warming the meridians, stopping bleeding, and calming the fetus. So what are the benefits of using mugwort for pregnant women? It can still be used to stabilize the fetus for pregnant women. Modern research on mugwort shows that it has good disease prevention and rehabilitation health care effects. The volatile oil in mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects, can avoid epidemics and drive away disease, etc. Another manifestation of the health-care and rehabilitation effect of mugwort is that it also has a certain immune-enhancing effect. Therefore, using mugwort leaves for foot soaking or bathing or eating mugwort leaves during pregnancy will have certain benefits for pregnant women.

Second, it is also important to note that although mugwort is good, pregnant women cannot use it to soak their feet for a long time. Some people are very weak and cannot be nourished. For patients with severe cold and dampness in the body, it is okay to soak their feet in mugwort water once a week, but they must stop eating all cold foods while soaking their feet in the water. Excessive use of mugwort will cause physical deficiency, resulting in headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes, fatigue, and depression. In severe cases, coughing and asthma may occur. Pregnant mothers should choose the frequency of using mugwort according to their actual situation.

Thirdly, women should not take medicine at will during pregnancy. If the medicine is used improperly, it will cause some unnecessary harm to the fetus in the belly. Now the skin is uncomfortable and there are symptoms of itching. The cause of the disease should be found out. Mugwort cannot be used because the skin of pregnant women is different from usual. If mugwort is used, it is more likely to irritate the skin, and even cause skin ulcers. Therefore, it is best to take a bath more often, keep the skin clean, and avoid eating irritating foods.

3. Reminder

It has to be said that bathing with mugwort leaves has certain benefits for the fetus. However, everything has its pros and cons. Pregnant women should pay more attention to some details when using mugwort leaves for bathing and should not use mugwort leaves for bathing frequently.