There is a folk proverb: "After three years of moxa, the disease will never come again", which means that using wormwood can prevent diseases. With the approach of Dragon Boat Festival, the use of wormwood is more extensive. Boiling water with wormwood has a good health preserving effect. When wormwood is ripe, people will pick wormwood by themselves or go to a drugstore to buy wormwood and come back to boil water.

manufacturing method

Choose 2 ounces of wormwood, put it in a pot, add 3 liters of water, so that wormwood is completely soaked in water, then boil it with strong fire, and then boil it with low fire for half an hour. After cooling, add a spoonful of honey to dilute the bitterness.

Edible efficacy

Boiling water with wormwood can enhance the body's disease resistance and help to sterilize and inhibit bacteria. At the same time, it can warm qi and blood and dispel cold and dampness. For women with cold constitution, drinking wormwood tea can warm meridians and dredge veins, dispel cold and relieve pain.

Matters needing attention

Soaking wormwood in water is not suitable for everyone, and it is not suitable for women in physiological period to drink, which is prone to irregular menstruation. Wormwood belongs to traditional Chinese medicine, so children had better not use wormwood to make tea, so as not to affect their physical development and health.

Moxibustion can be divided into "moxa" and "moxibustion". "Ai" refers to moxa sticks, mugs or moxa sticks made of mugwort leaves. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm, delicious, good at dredging meridians, and has the functions of regulating qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, warming meridians, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. And "moxibustion" refers to moxibustion. Moxibustion is a method to treat diseases and prevent health care by using moxa or other drugs as the main moxibustion materials (raw materials) at certain acupoints through warm stimulation and the action of drugs and the conduction of meridians.

Moxibustion has a long history, and its development can be divided into two milestones, the first is traditional moxibustion, and the second is modern moxibustion. Traditional moxibustion is effective, but it has smoke (toxic), fire (unsafe) and inconvenient operation (requiring professionals); Modern moxibustion is smokeless, portable and easy to operate, and can be used in various environments. Aizhenhao moxibustion patch belongs to modern moxibustion.

Ai Zhen Hao Moxibustion Plaster is a therapeutic method to prevent and treat diseases by stimulating acupuncture points or specific parts on the body surface with moxa heat generated by moxibustion materials made of folium Artemisiae Argyi, and regulating the physiological and biochemical functions of human disorders by stimulating menstrual activities. Now research has confirmed that moxibustion has a magical effect because the combined action of heat and moxa can produce chemicals with therapeutic effects, which have the functions of antioxidation and scavenging free radicals. Through the action of heat, not only the effective drug components in the moxa stick are not destroyed, but they are enhanced and attached to the acupoints, and the moxibustion heat penetrates into the body to play a role. The infrared rays generated during moxibustion can provide necessary energy for metabolic activity and immune function of body cells, and can also provide activation energy for pathological cells.