Wormwood is no stranger to rural people and is widely distributed in rural areas. In rural areas, people who grow up in places with wormwood generally know that wormwood is a natural green antibacterial and antiviral plant, emitting a special musk smell.
From the ancient medical book Compendium of Materia Medica, it is recorded that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as medicine, which is pungent, bitter and warm, and can warm meridians to stop bleeding, sterilize and disinfect. In modern Chinese medicine; Folium Artemisiae Argyi is an important medicinal material for warming meridians and stopping bleeding. Its main functions are warming meridians, preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold and regulating menstruation, strengthening brain and improving eyesight, calming nerves and helping sleep.
As a kind of medicine that can be used to treat all kinds of cold-dampness pain, wormwood is widely used because of its functions of warming channels and relieving pain, diminishing inflammation and sterilization, calming the nerves and helping sleep. It is said that the wormwood harvested in the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the most valuable, so we rural people will cut some wormwood with sickles during the Dragon Boat Festival and go home to dry it for use next year. The special "fragrance" of old wormwood is stronger than that of new wormwood. There is an old saying among the people that "you have wormwood at home for three years and you can't get sick", which shows that old wormwood has a good therapeutic effect on diseases.
A small pillow made of mugwort by the farmer's wife.
Although wormwood has medicinal effects, its value can only be reflected after being used as medicine. In the folk, just soak in boiling water to relieve the pain in a certain part of the body, or use mugwort leaves as pillows to sleep.
Using Artemisia argyi as the filler of pillow core and sleeping with it can not only soothe the nerves and help sleep, but also relieve the pain of cervical spondylosis! The farmer's sister-in-law has suffered from cervical spondylosis for many years, and all kinds of methods have been used, but it is useless. In severe cases, she can't sleep at night. Later, she went to an old Chinese doctor in my village and asked if there were any remedies to relieve cervical pain. The old Chinese doctor said for a long time that you can use Artemisia argyi as a pillow core to sleep at night. Try it. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the function of warming meridians and dredging collaterals, which has a good effect on relieving cervical vertebra. Forget the mugwort pillow I made myself. The special smell of wormwood can repel mosquitoes in summer. Putting two pillows made of mugwort leaves on the kang can also inhibit the breeding of mites in bedding. A small pillow has many functions! I sewed the little pillow in the picture by myself.
Imagine a little pillow made by a farmer's wife
The old Chinese doctor said that wormwood can be used not only as a pillow core, but also as a cushion and backrest cushion. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effect of warming channels, dispelling cold and relieving pain. The cushion made of Artemisia argyi filler can relieve abdominal pain caused by menstrual disorder or postpartum cold abdominal pain, and can also sterilize and relieve itching, and treat some gynecological diseases.
Wormwood can be used not only on adult plants, but also on seedlings. When it is tender, wormwood can be made into different kinds of delicious food: wormwood green balls, wormwood fried rice, wormwood boiled eggs, wormwood jiaozi and so on. , are very good health food. Now is the fresh season of wormwood, and it is also the time to pick it. You might as well try!
During the Qingming Festival, mugwort leaves began to sprout and grow. In a month or two, it's time to pick mugwort leaves. In rural areas, the elderly can make full use of mugwort leaves.
A few years ago, my aunt got menopausal syndrome. She is sad and worried every day. No one in her family dares to talk to her. She is annoyed when she speaks. The quality of sleep is terrible. She can't sleep at night and doesn't feel sleepy during the day. People suddenly look old and vicissitudes, which makes people feel distressed.
Later, my aunt's daughter looked for remedies for my aunt everywhere, and she found them. Just when mugwort was growing vigorously, my aunt's daughter drove a few of us that day, and we all went to the mountains to pick mugwort and picked two big bags.
The mugwort leaves I brought home have been completely dried. My aunt and daughter made a pillow out of mugwort leaves, and later let my aunt sleep on the pillow. The remaining mugwort leaves were used by my aunt to soak her feet. My daughter personally burned mugwort leaves, personally supervised menstruation to soak her feet, and bought mugwort sticks. After soaking her feet, she used moxa sticks to moxibustion her body.
So insist on for a month, menstruation's body has obviously changed, frowning brows loosened, and there was a smile on her face. She can sleep at night. Although she hasn't slept for eight hours, she can sleep for five or six minutes. Menstruation also feels good, and menstruation, which looks better, relies more on Artemisia argyi. Every night, she has to do foot bath and moxa stick moxibustion, and that mugwort pillow has become her treasure.
As a pillow, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can not only treat insomnia, but also repel mosquitoes with its special fragrance, which is very suitable for most people. However, it is cold, not suitable for everyone and cannot be used for a long time. Menstrual women and children had better not use it. Long-term use will lead to the invasion of cold pathogens in the body, which is not conducive to health.
People with insomnia can try using mugwort pillow, which is really effective. The best time to pick mugwort leaves is around the Dragon Boat Festival, when the medicinal value of mugwort leaves is the best.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the roadside in the countryside is full of lush mugwort leaves. Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to health care and have a better understanding of some properties of Artemisia argyi. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, rural people will go to the mountains to cut mugwort leaves and go home. They will leave them in front of their homes to dry for a few days, and then move to the shade to dry. Last Dragon Boat Festival, I also went to the mountain to cut some mugwort leaves and went home. When I was half dry, my father cut it neatly to about 10 cm and put it away for later use. But then I heard from a Chinese medicine friend that although Artemisia argyi leaves can be used as medicine all over the body, the effect of Artemisia argyi leaves in Shandong is not great, and the effect of roots and stems is minimal. So dad removed all the stems of mugwort leaves, leaving only mugwort leaves.
Last winter, I often soaked my feet with wormwood. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves has many effects on the body. For example, some women can soak their feet with mugwort leaves when their hands and feet are cold and their limbs are numb in winter. First, put the mugwort leaves into the basin, and pour hot water directly. When the water temperature is suitable, soak your feet in water, which can relax muscles and activate collaterals. But you don't have to soak it in mugwort leaves every day, just once every three to five days.
I can't sleep well all the time, sometimes I can't sleep all night, which leads to neurasthenia. I heard that mugwort pillow has a certain conditioning effect on people's sleep. Why not use it? So I found two pieces of cotton cloth, one large and one small, and simply sewed two pillows. Why did you sew two? One is to put a pillow under your head at night, so that you can smell Ai Xiang and fall asleep. After sleeping for a while, I don't know if mugwort really worked. Anyway, I slept a little longer. The other is a small pillow for family. Anyone with cervical discomfort can put it under the neck to recuperate the feeling of cervical discomfort.
There are many uses of mugwort pillow, which can dredge cerebral vessels and prevent cerebral thrombosis. One of the reasons why I like mugwort pillow is that it has more disinfection and sterilization effects than ordinary pillows. You don't have to worry about the mites on the pillow. You can rest assured that you can smell the delicious Ai Xiang. Putting a pillow with mugwort leaves in the bedroom in summer can reduce mosquito bites, which is much better than those smelly fog sprays.
Here, I would like to remind everyone that people with physical weakness should use moxa pillow less, because moxa leaves have medicinal value and easily interfere with the circulation of qi and blood in the body. Even healthy people are not suitable for long-term use of mugwort pillows, and women need to pay more attention to the physiological period.
It has been raining lightly for a day and a night in March since last night. This is really a blessing in disguise for Yantai rural people! In a few days, the wormwood in the field will sprout like the wet jointing in this rainy season. When wormwood is tender, it is no more than an inch long. You can pick it from home and mash it into green balls to eat. Wormwood grows best in May. This is the season when wormwood plays its greatest role. It has many uses.
Sun has chronic cholecystitis. After the hospital examination, many drugs were prescribed, but no obvious effect was seen for a long time. Later, I happened to meet an old Chinese doctor and said that I could try moxibustion. Under his guidance, I bought an 8 cm thick moxa stick on the Internet to moxibustion the relevant points of cholecystitis. After lighting the moxa stick, the warm feeling goes straight to the skin and the focus, which is really comfortable! After a winter of moxibustion, cholecystitis did not recur. The wild wormwood in this countryside used to be so good, and since then, Sun has been deeply obsessed with moxibustion and health care.
My aunt's second sister has been having a headache. The old Chinese doctor also recommended her a folk prescription, that is, using wormwood as a pillow to sleep. I didn't expect my second sister to use it for a year, and migraine is really rare! The function of wormwood is so magical! This surprised my mother-in-law, who often has itchy skin. I heard that wormwood pillow can also dispel eczema and moisten dryness. I will also get some wormwood to make pillows next year.
In the second year, Sunny specially went back to her hometown before May Day and went to the countryside with her mother-in-law to collect this Yang Zhigang wormwood as a pillow and cushion. It takes more than one year to make mugwort pillows. The wormwood stored for three years is better and the effect is better! There are two kinds of wormwood in rural areas: wild wormwood and domestic wormwood. The volatile oil of Artemisia argyi leaves is relatively large and has a strong taste. It is best to make moxibustion sticks, fill pillows and cushions. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is very rare and widely used to make green balls. The effect of warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold.
We put on gloves and pushed the car. A large piece of wormwood outside cut it back with a sickle, and then rolled it down with gloves while taking advantage of the situation, leaving only leaves, throwing away the pole, leaving only leaves, laying it on a bungalow and rolling it in the shade to dry. Then in the pillow core filled with pure cotton cloth, the wormwood stored for three years can be made into yellow plush. Warming yang, sleeping peacefully, eliminating dampness and treating headache are all very good. The cushion made of wormwood in my house can warm the stomach, adjust the middle, warm the meridians and dispel the cold, and the effect is also great!
Don't miss this year's Dragon Boat Festival. Interested friends must try to collect some!
Old people in rural areas love to use mugwort leaves as pillows. What are the benefits of mugwort pillow? Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a kind of herbal medicine with many uses. Grandma used to put some in the pillowcase to sleep, and rural cuisine also slept with this pillow. The following is my opinion:
Artemisia argyi is called a medicinal herb, which is usually used as medicine with leaves. Materia Medica says from the heart: "Folium Artemisiae Argyi is bitter and pungent, warm in nature, ripe and hot, pure in yang, capable of restoring yang, dredging the twelve meridians, taking three yin, regulating qi and blood, expelling cold and dampness, warming uterus ... moxibustion can dredge meridians and eliminate all diseases." It is not surprising that old people in rural areas like to use mugwort leaves as pillows. Old people of a certain age don't sleep well enough. Although they go to bed early, they are not easy to fall asleep, and sometimes they wake up in the middle of the night. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has a special fragrance. Wash the picked leaves of Artemisia argyi, dry them, and put them in a pillowcase to sleep, which is helpful to sleep and sleep more stably. Moreover, some elderly people tend to wet the pillow towel when they sleep, and Artemisia argyi has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects, which is better than that kind of cotton pillow core.
There are also some skills in picking mugwort leaves. We usually pick mugwort leaves for use during the Dragon Boat Festival, like in spring, because people think that the Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang, which is the most vigorous day of vegetation and Chinese medicine in a year, and it is also midsummer, and mugwort leaves are also very lush, which is especially suitable for picking.
Picked fresh folium Artemisiae Argyi can be cooked as a dish or made into folium Artemisiae Argyi, or it can be cooked for bathing and soaking feet. Like our hometown and countryside, it is usually cooked for bathing. Of course, some dried mugwort leaves will be left, which will be put in pillowcases to sleep, or put in cloth shoes/sports shoes for sterilization and deodorization.
In fact, mugwort pillow can be used not only by the elderly, but also by children and adults. For example, children have poor immune resistance and are prone to colds, coughs and stuffy noses. Sleeping with mugwort pillow can make children sleep more stably and cough slower. There are also women who have just given birth to children, who are weak, afraid of cold and prone to sweating. In addition to sleeping on mugwort pillows, they can also use mugwort to boil water to bathe and soak their feet.
Of course, although wormwood has various benefits, it is generally used by the elderly now, such as rural dishes. My mother used wormwood pillows for me when I was a child, but I don't need them when I grow up. I usually have little contact with them, so I often eat hot pot during the Spring Festival and boil water for a bath during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Wormwood is warm and bitter.
As a medicine, the whole herb has the functions of warming channels, eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, preventing miscarriage and resisting allergy.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be used as a pillow to treat insomnia. Its unique fragrance can also repel mosquitoes, resist bacteria and diminish inflammation, which is suitable for most people. However, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is not suitable for use because of its warm nature and strong fire due to yin deficiency.
As a kind of medicine that can be used to treat all kinds of cold-dampness pain, wormwood is widely used because of its functions of warming channels and relieving pain, diminishing inflammation and sterilization, calming the nerves and helping sleep. It is said that the wormwood harvested in the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the most valuable, so we rural people will cut some wormwood with sickles during the Dragon Boat Festival and go home to dry it for use next year. The special "fragrance" of old wormwood is stronger than that of new wormwood. There is an old saying among the people that "you have wormwood at home for three years and you can't get sick", which shows that old wormwood has a good therapeutic effect on diseases.