In ancient times, there was a saying that mugwort leaves boil water. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a common plant in daily life. Some people make Folium Artemisiae Argyi into wormwood, which can smoke acupoints of the body. So what is the function and usage of Artemisia argyi?

Efficacy and usage of moxa 1 1 for calming nerves and helping sleep

The main material of wormwood pillow is wormwood. Usually sleeping with wormwood pillow can soothe the nerves and help sleep. The components in wormwood can relieve stress, relax the whole body and improve the quality of sleep. It is especially suitable for people who often suffer from insomnia and improves the troubles of insomnia.

2, dredge blood vessels

The components of wormwood contain a lot of riboflavin, trimethoxyflavone, β -sitosterol and so on. When you make it into an moxa pillow, when you sleep, breathing will bring these ingredients into the brain, which can dredge blood vessels, prevent cerebral thrombosis and other diseases, and enhance the body's resistance.

3. Asthma and phlegm

In fact, moxa pillow also has the effect of relieving asthma and resolving phlegm. Long-term use of moxa pillow can adjust the balance of the body, remove harmful substances such as water in the human body, and relieve diseases such as colds and asthma, but it is not suitable for pregnant women and other people and will affect the fetus.

Several common usages of wormwood.

The usage of moxa sticks can be roughly divided into acupoint moxibustion, local moxa stick fumigation and whole body moxa stick fumigation. The distance between moxibustion and skin 10~30mm until the skin is warm and red.

1, acupoint moxibustion

After lighting a moxa stick, smoke moxibustion or burn moxibustion is performed at a place about 10~30mm above the acupoint, and each acupoint is generally about 10 minute until the skin is warm and red, and there is no burning sensation or skin burn. Moxibustion methods are divided into mild moxibustion (one end of the moxa stick is lit, aiming at the point to be moxibustion or the affected part) and rotary moxibustion (one end of the moxa stick is lit and burned).

But uniformly moves left and right or rotates repeatedly for moxibustion treatment) and bird pecking moxibustion (the luminous end of the moxa stick is not fixed at a certain distance from the skin of the moxibustion part, but moves up and down like a bird pecking). It can also be used with various moxibustion devices, such as warm moxibustion boxes and warm moxibustion racks, which are mainly used for fixing moxa sticks and are convenient to use.

2. Local wormwood fumigation

You can use 3~6 sticks of moxa sticks, tie them in a row with adhesive tape, and smoke them up and down at a distance of10 ~ 30 mm.

For dysmenorrhea, use 6 sticks of moxa sticks to smoke the lower abdomen to the navel twice a week for 30-40 minutes each time to promote the blood circulation of the lower abdomen.

Such as scapulohumeral periarthritis, you can use 3~5 moxa sticks to moxibustion from Fengchi point to Jianfeng point and Jianjing point for about 5 minutes. When fumigating, be sure to keep the indoor temperature suitable and not catch cold.

Such as abdominal cold and diarrhea. You can smoke the lower abdomen to the navel with a few sticks of moxa stick, which can dispel the cold.

If the child has enuresis, accompanied by cold hands and feet, pale face, pale tongue, white tongue coating and other symptoms, you can use 1~2 sticks of moxa stick to smoke the navel and its surroundings for 5~ 10 minutes, and then smoke the back spine and kidneys, which can replenish qi and kidney and dispel kidney cold.

If you have bad breath, purple tongue or black tongue coating, it means that the spleen and stomach are very cold, accompanied by stagnation of meridians. You can smoke the lower abdomen around the navel with 3 to 5 sticks of moxa sticks for 20 minutes every day, once every other day for a week, and the bad breath will disappear.

3, whole body moxa fumigation

(1) Drink ginger, red dates and longan soup before the whole body is smoked with moxa sticks to preserve health and nourish yin. Use 3 slices of ginger, 10 red dates (core removed) and 10 longan (core removed), add water, cook for 15 minutes, and pour into a pulverizer to make paste.

(2) Slice ginger and steam it in a pot for later use.

(3) Use 6-8 sticks of moxa sticks in summer (8- 10 sticks in winter), bundle them in rows and light them.

(4) Stick the steamed ginger slices on the back. The lit rows of moxa sticks keep a distance of half an inch to one inch from the ginger slices, and slowly move up and down, usually smoking for 30 to 40 minutes.

(5) Stick ginger slices around the lower abdomen and navel and smoke them up and down for 20-30 minutes.

(6) From ankle to knee, up and down, pumping back and forth 30 ~ 50 times on the outside and inside of both calves.

Efficacy and usage of wormwood 2. Functions and uses of wormwood.

Artemisia absinthe, alias ice stage, is a perennial herb. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people have a tradition of inserting wormwood in front of their doors, so it may be no stranger to mention wormwood. There is a fine layer of white fluff on the back of wormwood leaves, which is wormwood. In addition, if you tear a piece of wormwood, you will find that there are some fine white hairs at the tear of wormwood, all of which are wormwood.

Mugwort is the raw material for making moxa sticks, moxa sticks and other moxibustion products, so the quality of mugwort directly determines the quality of moxibustion products, and the quality of mugwort also has certain requirements for the selection of mugwort. For example, the effect of using Artemisia argyi leaves picked in that year will be very different from that made by Chen Fang many years later.

Made of moxa sticks, after burning, it has strong firepower, but the penetration of moxa sticks is not strong. And the moxa sticks made of mugwort leaves for many years, like the five-year-old Rong of Huaxia Moxibustion Network, have a long time and high purity. Such moxa sticks have mild firepower after burning, and have stronger penetration to acupoints during moxibustion.

Moxibustion mainly relies on wormwood, which is extracted from wormwood leaves, and wormwood is the raw material for making moxa sticks, moxa sticks and other moxibustion products. Therefore, the quality of moxa sticks directly determines the quality of moxibustion products.

In short, in moxibustion, we should choose moxibustion products made of Chen Fang's old and high-purity moxa sticks.

Second, the general efficacy of wormwood.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi, a perennial herb medicinal plant in Compositae, is known as the king of hundred herbs because of its pure yang. It has been used to treat diseases and preserve health for thousands of years. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is extracted from Folium Artemisiae Argyi and processed into "Artemisia argyi", which is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment. Ai Rong is often used to regulate cold evil and yang deficiency.

Nowadays, many people use moxa sticks to soak their feet, or make mugwort leaves into sachets to wear on their bodies, so as to achieve the purpose of fixing yang and expelling cold. In China, when people use moxibustion to treat rheumatism, they use purified and processed Folium Artemisiae Argyi to smoke and bake.

Li Shizhen's father, Li Eon, once wrote a book praising wormwood, saying that it grew in Yang Shan and was picked during the Dragon Boat Festival, which made great contributions to the treatment of moxibustion diseases. Artemisia argyi is a pure yang plant, and combined with the physical effect of fire, Chinese medicine believes that moxibustion is the best way to supplement human yang.

To sum up, the efficacy and function of moxa sticks are mainly two words, "pure yang". Because wormwood is pure yang, it has a good effect on treating cold evil and yang deficiency. In terms of chemical composition, it is found that Artemisia argyi leaves not only contain volatile oil, but also contain tannins, flavonoids, alcohols, polysaccharides, trace elements and other organic components, which can effectively regulate the needs of the human body.

Pharmacological research shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has antibacterial, antiviral, antiasthmatic, antitussive, expectorant, antiallergic, hemostatic, anticoagulant and immune functions. Taking moxa as medicine can regulate qi and blood, warm uterus and dispel cold and dampness.

Function, indications for irregular menstruation, fetal leakage and bleeding. The above is mainly about the efficacy and function of moxa sticks, but in real life, people often use moxa sticks made of moxa sticks to moxibustion or soak their feet with moxa sticks for health care in this way.

Moxibustion can also be done without moxa sticks, such as direct moxibustion with moxa sticks, moxibustion across objects, warm acupuncture and so on.

However, if you directly use moxa sticks for moxibustion, you should choose moxa sticks with relatively long age and high purity, such as moxa sticks with five years' experience in Huaxia Moxibustion Network. Chen Fang has a long history, which ensures the effect of moxibustion and has high purity. Moxibustion can be avoided without hurting meridians.

Efficacy and Usage Ai Rong has many functions, such as warming channels to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and can be used to soak feet and make health care bags.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is mainly processed and ground into powder, which has many functions, such as warming meridians, stopping bleeding, dispelling cold, relieving pain, dredging meridians, relieving asthma, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. The main function of Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be used as moxibustion. Moxibustion has many functions, such as warming meridians and dredging collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, restoring yang and rescuing adverse events, preventing diseases and protecting health.

Indications are very wide, which is very suitable for deficiency cold, blood stasis and yang deficiency. Ai Rong can also soak feet, promote blood circulation, warm channels and dispel cold, dispel dampness and reduce asthenic fire. Third, it can be made into various health care packages, such as Chinese-style Chinese-style bellyband, pillows and so on. Ai Rong has a fragrant smell, and it can be smoked indoors with a censer during the flu season, which has the function of preventing colds.

How to use moxa sticks?

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a common instrument in clinical moxibustion. After drying, tanning and removing impurities such as hard stems, it is made into fine velvet. When ignited, it can release heat and smoke. Wormwood is usually used in the following ways:

First, roll a layer of hard paper outside the moxa stick to make a long cylindrical instrument called moxa stick. Moxibustion stick can fully burn and release moxibustion as usual. Moxibustion sticks can be used to fumigate human acupoints, which is a method of moxa sticks.

Secondly, the moxa sticks can be made into cone-shaped moxa sticks, which are generally pinched by hands or molded by grinding tools. The size can be determined according to the clinical treatment purpose of patients, and can be divided into big moxa sticks, middle moxa sticks and small moxa sticks. The moxa cone made of moxa sticks can be directly placed on human skin for moxibustion, or some spacers such as ginger slices, garlic slices, vaseline and oil can be placed between the moxa cone and the skin for indirect moxibustion.

In short, the use of moxa sticks can be divided into two ways: making moxa sticks and making moxa sticks.