1, wormwood tastes bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. The boiled water of wormwood is bitter, dry, pungent, fragrant and warm. It is specially used for warming qi and blood, dredging meridians, eliminating cold and dampness, and stopping cold pain. It is often used to treat deficiency and cold of lower energizer, epigastric cold pain, irregular menstruation and infertility due to palace cold.
2, wormwood boiled water also has a hemostatic effect, and is used to treat symptoms such as deficiency-cold menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, fetal leakage, vomiting and bleeding. In clinic, wormwood is commonly used to stir-fry charcoal alone, and it is also often combined with Ejiao and Rehmannia glutinosa. For example, Jiaoai Decoction is mainly used for bleeding with deficiency-cold syndrome, especially for women with metrorrhagia and bleeding.
3, cure a cold: take some dried wormwood, put wormwood into a bag to seal, put it in water to boil, and then pour it into the bathtub. Bathing with wormwood water has a good effect on treating colds.
4, cure cough: wormwood, dried tangerine peel, a small amount of sugar. Put wormwood and tangerine peel into a sealed container, burn them black, grind them into powder, add syrup, fry them with low fire until they become thick, and bottle them for later use. When you have a bad cough, take it three times a day and the effect is good.
5. Treatment of neurasthenia: Take 5- 10g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, wash the Folium Artemisiae Argyi, add appropriate amount of water into the pot, and boil the soup.
Second, the introduction of wormwood
1, wormwood (scientific name: wormwood? Laifu company Vaniot), alias: kitten, ice terrace, Cao Zhi, Ai Xiang, mugwort, Xiao Ai, mugwort, mugwort, erigeron breviscapus, mugwort, moxibustion, herbs, yellow grass, mugwort, etc. Perennial herbs or slightly semi-shrubby plants have strong fragrance.
2. The stems are solitary or few, brown or grayish brown, slightly lignified at the base and lignified at the upper part, with a few short branches. The leaves are thick papery, grayish white and pubescent. The base is usually not as small as jia ye or jia ye. The upper leaves and bracts are pinnately cleft, the head is elliptic, the corolla is tubular or cup-shaped, there are glandular points outside, the anthers are narrowly linear, and the style is nearly equal to or slightly longer than the corolla.
3. Achenes are oval or rectangular. The flowering and fruiting period is September-65438+1October. 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. Artemisia argyi leaves are dried and mashed to make "moxa wool", which can be made into moxa sticks for moxibustion and can also be used as raw materials for "inkpad". Distributed in Asia and Europe.
Extended data:
Folium Artemisiae Argyi soaking feet:
1, wormwood and pepper can remove foot sweat, foot odor, beriberi and eczema.
2. wormwood and safflower can improve varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, numbness of hands and feet or blood stasis.
3, wormwood ginger tablets can cure colds, arthropathy, rheumatoid, cough, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma.
4, wormwood with salt can cure upper energizer with fire, frequent eye fire, toothache, sore throat, irritability, getting angry and catching cold, and edema of feet and legs.
References:
Ai Cao Baidu encyclopedia