Artemisia argyi has a special fragrance, which can be used as a pillow to help sleep and relieve fatigue. Boil the wormwood leaves, then dilute them with water, take a bath and remove the long red pimples. In addition, it can repel mosquitoes, flies, sterilize and prevent diseases.

Artemisia argyi is also used in the "moxibustion" of acupuncture. "Moxibustion" is to light the wormwood leaves and then smoke and burn the acupoints. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves is good for health. Because it has the function of treating diseases, especially after being collected by dew in May, the drug effect is the best.

Artemisia argyi is also an edible plant. Mugwort can be used as a recipe for mugwort tea, mugwort soup, mugwort porridge, mugwort steamed bread, mugwort cake, mugwort balls and so on, so as to enhance the human body's resistance to diseases.

Hanging wormwood: A folk proverb says, "Insert willow in Qingming Festival and wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival." On the occasion of Dragon Boat Festival, people regard wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the courtyard, puts calamus and moxa sticks in the eyebrows of the door, and hangs them in the hall to prevent mosquitoes. "Evil spirits are nothing but ghosts."

Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits. The plants with withered stems are soaked in water for fumigation to achieve the effect of disinfection and itching relief, and parturients often bathe or fumigate with wormwood water.

In addition to repelling mosquitoes, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can also dispel dampness and relieve pain.

Some people are prone to low back pain in rainy season, which is mostly related to deficiency of kidney qi or invasion of kidney by pathogenic wind and dampness. At this point, if you can wrap it with hot mugwort leaves, you can immediately relieve the pain.

You can fry the mugwort leaves in a wok first, then rub them with your hands, mix some vinegar and put them in a cloth bag, and apply them to the back pain for 30 to 40 minutes. You can also fry more at a time and keep it in the refrigerator. Just heat it in the microwave when you use it.

In addition to medicinal use, the edible value of Artemisia argyi leaves is also very high. Contains soft resin, volatile essential oil, glucose, tannic acid, potassium chloride, B vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and other mineral elements.

But also contains a tannin component-Cataxin, which has the function of softening blood vessels. From the health point of view, cooking some dietetic health products with it can achieve the functions of nourishing the stomach, helping digestion, eliminating cold and dampness, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat and relieving cardiovascular diseases. Director Mei Quanxi introduced and recommended several edible methods of wormwood for everyone:

1, hen wormwood leaf soup: it is suitable for menorrhagia, palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, epigastric cold pain and so on caused by physical weakness.

2, Artemisia argyi brown sugar poached eggs: For irregular uterine cold or infertility caused by uterine cold, Artemisia argyi has the effect of warming uterus to stop bleeding and prevent miscarriage.

3, Artemisia argyi egg soup: Artemisia argyi has the effect of warming the stomach and relieving pain, suitable for stomach cold pain.

4, wormwood Jiang Shui: Treatment of children's cough, especially for colds, cold cough, the effect is obvious.

5, Artemisia argyi brown sugar water: used for deficiency cold dysmenorrhea.

6, mugwort gum porridge: take it when menstruation is excessive, suitable for blood deficiency.

7. Steamed Folium Artemisiae Argyi with flour: appetizing and warming the stomach, suitable for stomach cold pain and diarrhea.

8. Aiyeba: It is a must-have snack for Hakka women in confinement, and it can also treat colds.

9. Folium Artemisiae Argyi mung bean cake: appetizing and promoting digestion, warming the stomach and regulating menstruation, used for stomach cold, stomach pain, and women's deficiency-cold dysmenorrhea.

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