Traditionally, wormwood was picked around the Dragon Boat Festival, and it took more than three years to make it within ten days before and after the severe cold solar terms.
With a wooden hammer, put the wormwood in a stone mortar and beat it repeatedly, so that the stems on the wormwood leaves will separate and the wormwood will become spherical. Screen out these hard impurities with a sieve, and the rest is wormwood. The more times you hit it, the more impurities there are, so the more times you hit it and sift it, the purer the wormwood will be. So now, "purity" is an element to evaluate the quality of wormwood.
With the development of technology, the traditional production method is no longer used, because the traditional production method of moxa is too inefficient. At present, the method adopted is to automatically remove impurities by using the professional extractor of Ai Rong.
The usage of wormwood-the usage of Chinese herbal medicine Who knows what wormwood leaves can do, alone?
Perennial herb, 45-120cm high; Stems with distinct edges, branched in the upper part, covered with white short wool.
Simple leaves, alternate, the leaves in the middle of the stem are ovoid, triangular or elliptic, stalked, pinnately parted, two pairs of lobes on both sides are elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, and the middle part is often 3-lobed. Lobes serrated, dark green at the top, densely covered with small glandular spots, sparsely white pilose, gray-green at the bottom, densely covered with white villi; The leaves at the top of the stem are entire or 3-lobed. The heads are arranged in complex racemes, and the involucre is ovoid and densely covered with gray-white filiform hairs; The tubular floret is reddish, the outer layer is female and the inner layer is bisexual.
Achenes are rectangular and hairless. Flowering: July -65438+ 10.
Nature and taste: Artemisia argyi leaves are bitter, pungent and warm. Meridian of liver, spleen and kidney.
Indications: It tastes fragrant, bitter and pungent, and can regulate qi and blood, warm channels and dispel cold, dispel dampness, stop cold and relieve pain. It is an important gynecological medicine. It can be used for the treatment of epigastric pain, irregular menstruation and infertility due to cold uterus, such as Aifu Nuangong Pill.
Stir-frying charcoal to stop bleeding can be used to treat menorrhagia, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia due to deficiency-cold, and missed pregnancy, such as Jiao Tang Ai. This product is mashed and made into moxa sticks and moxa sticks. External moxibustion can dispel cold, relieve pain and warm qi and blood.
External washing with decoction can cure wet sores and scabies, eliminate dampness and relieve itching. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has been preventing plague for thousands of years, and Chinese herbal medicines can also be obtained locally. Pharmacological research of modern medicine shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug, which can inhibit and kill many viruses and bacteria, and has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on respiratory diseases.
Fumigation of mugwort leaves is a simple and feasible epidemic prevention method. The specific operation method is: use half a catty of mature wormwood (you can't use it without mature wormwood because its medicine is not strong enough), put it in a basin, light it in the house, close the window, and play the role of fumigation.
When smoking, you must smoke, not open fire, because experiments have proved that smoking sterilization effect is much better than open fire. People should leave the house when smoking, because there is a lot of volatile oil in wormwood, which is an important component of wormwood sterilization, but it is toxic, easy to cause skin and mucous membrane flushing, make people's central nervous system excited, and seriously lead to convulsions. It usually takes half an hour to leave the house before you get poisoned.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi bathing Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of invigorating qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, stopping bleeding, sleeping and warming menstruation. Take 30-50g fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi, put it in boiling water for 5- 10 minute, take out Folium Artemisiae Argyi, add water to adjust the temperature to a suitable temperature before bathing.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has certain curative effect on folliculitis and eczema.
Usage: Take 3- 10g orally. Can be taken orally, smoked or washed externally.
To stop bleeding, stir-fry with charcoal; Use qi and blood. Chinese patent medicines: Aifu Nuangong Pill, Danggui Tiaojing Pill, Wujin Pill, Nuangong Yunzi Formula, and Jiaoai Decoction.
How to use mugwort leaves? What are the functions?
Oral administration and dosage: take decoction, generally 3 ~10g; Folium Artemisiae Argyi oil (encapsulated) is taken orally, 0. 1 ml each time, 3 times a day.
External use: appropriate amount. Decocting in water, smoking, washing or frying, warm ironing, tamping hair and warm moxibustion.
Stir-frying charcoal to stop bleeding (vinegar frying can strengthen convergence and stop bleeding); Raw, used to dispel cold and relieve pain; Rammed velvet is used for moxibustion. Pay attention to the use of mugwort leaves. Ancient doctors said that "cold is cooked, warm is cooked".
Clinical experience, observing the syndrome of its treatment, whether eaten raw or cooked, is always inseparable from cold syndrome. When used raw, it can dispel cold and relieve pain, treat abdominal cold pain, infertility due to uterine cold, irregular menstruation, warm channels to stop bleeding when decocted, and treat metrorrhagia due to deficiency cold, red fetal leakage and restless fetal movement.
As for the compatibility of Sisheng Pill with cold-cooling hemostatic drugs, it is also used to treat vomiting and bleeding caused by blood heat, so that cold drugs do not hurt yang and stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis.
How to use wormwood? A Chinese herbal medicine. How to use its head and leaves?
Alias: wormwood, wormwood leaf, wormwood, wormwood.
It belongs to Artemisia of Compositae, and its scientific name is Artemisia argyi. Medicinal properties: wormwood is closely related to the life of our people. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put wormwood at home to ward off evil spirits, and the withered plants are soaked in water to disinfect and relieve itching. Mothers often bathe or fumigate with wormwood water.
Traditional medical theory holds that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of qi and blood, expelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Modern experimental studies have proved that Artemisia argyi leaves have antibacterial and antiviral effects; Antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; Hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; Sedative and antiallergic effects; Protect liver and gallbladder, etc.
Wormwood can be used as recipes such as wormwood tea, wormwood soup and wormwood porridge to enhance the body's resistance to diseases.
What's the use of wormwood?
Chinese medicine believes that cough due to wind-cold can attack the lungs, and wormwood leaves warm the middle and dispel the cold. The volatile oil contained in it can also relieve cough, asthma and expectorant after being absorbed by human body. Mei Quan, director of the Research Office of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmacology of Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that soaking feet or soaking in water with mugwort leaves also has the functions of warming and dispersing cold pathogens, dispersing lung and relieving cough.
Of course, wormwood bath is not only conducive to the prevention and treatment of colds and coughs, but also has a good therapeutic effect on eczema and folliculitis. Because wormwood can promote blood circulation and improve skin metabolism, frequent wormwood bath also has a good cosmetic effect. It is said that there is wormwood in the whitening bath studied by Cixi's physician.
The edible value of Artemisia argyi leaves is also 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.
Extended data:
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood is a kind of drug with flat nature, bitter taste and no toxicity. It has the functions of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage, and is also commonly used in acupuncture, so it is also called "herb". Soaking feet with wormwood can also improve lung function, which is very beneficial to people with chronic bronchitis and easy to cough up white sputum.
The method of soaking feet with wormwood is similar to that with ginger. Generally, 30-50g (a handful) of dried wormwood is boiled in water to soak feet, and the cooking method is the same as above.
Patients with severe cold and dampness can soak their feet with wormwood once a week. You can also soak your feet with wormwood water and drink a cup of ginger and red jujube water (10 dried red jujube plus two pieces of ginger and ten bowls of water for two hours) as an assistant.