It is not a fantasy that wormwood promotes longevity. Wormwood is rich in substances that promote longevity-7.2 mg carotene per100g wormwood is considered to have anti-cancer and anti-aging effects. Besides carotene, wormwood also contains vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C and 8% protein, and is also rich in iron and cellulose. Wormwood is also rich in chlorophyll, which can not only prevent cancer, but also purify blood, sterilize and dredge blood vessels. Adenine contained in wormwood can make the heart strong and prevent functional degradation, which has a strong effect on preventing brain diseases.
A long time ago, wormwood was used for moxibustion. Because wormwood is "warm in nature, bitter in taste and nontoxic, it can dredge the twelve meridians, regulate qi and blood, dispel dampness and cold, and stop bleeding and diarrhea". Therefore, people usually smoke and burn the acupoints after lighting wormwood, so that the acupoints are heated and the meridians are dredged. At present, most of the popular "herbal baths" in Taiwan Province Province are made of wormwood. Nowadays, people often use wormwood dead leaves to roll into long strips and lightly smoke joints to treat intra-tendon joint pain.
Soaking feet with mugwort leaves helps to keep healthy. Folium Artemisiae Argyi can dispel cold, remove dampness and dredge meridians. Because modern people are generally cold and wet, Artemisia argyi has become an indispensable helper to treat diseases. Clear moxa sticks made of Folium Artemisiae Argyi are tied in a row to smoke the back, lower abdomen, lower legs and arms, which can quickly dispel cold and dampness.
Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi can effectively dispel deficiency fire and treat oral ulcer, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other diseases caused by deficiency fire.
Take a handful of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, soak your feet in boiling water, or take 1/4 pure Folium Artemisiae Argyi, cut into shreds, put it in a foot soaking bucket, and brew with boiling water for a while; After the mugwort leaves are soaked, add some warm water to soak your feet. Drink plenty of warm water when you are sweating slightly all over. Generally, it is soaked several times in a row, 2~3 days at a time. In the meantime, don't eat cold food and pay attention to rest, so the symptoms of head, face and throat discomfort caused by deficiency fire will be obviously improved or disappeared.
Although there are many advantages to soaking feet with mugwort leaves, you can't soak your feet unscrupulously, otherwise it will be counterproductive. Because soaking feet in mugwort leaves will lead to deficiency fire and cold fire, too frequent soaking feet in mugwort leaves will cause deficiency of both qi and blood, and insufficient blood supply to the head and face, which will cause dizziness, headache and emotional changes.
For patients with severe cold and dampness, you can soak your feet with mugwort water once a week, but you must fast and eat cold food while soaking your feet with mugwort water. You can also drink a cup of ginger and jujube water while soaking your feet with wormwood leaf water, so that you can drive away the cold without diarrhea. For those who are very weak, toothache, oral ulcer, etc. It often happens when eating food that nourishes the body. Then when the fire gets angry, soak your feet with mugwort water, and continue to take tonic when there is no fire.
Wormwood can also be eaten, which can prolong life. In addition to being used as a medicinal material, wormwood can also be made into various delicious foods, which can also prolong life. There are many ways to eat wormwood. The easiest way is to pick out the shoots of wormwood and chew them directly in your mouth, or make cakes with the shoots of wormwood, or make wormwood soup with vegetables. Here are several ways to add wormwood to food to make it a food that helps to live longer:
Folium Artemisiae Argyi Coicis porridge: add appropriate amount of Coicis Semen to the porridge for later use. Boil Folium Artemisiae Argyi and eggs together until the eggs are cooked, and put the soup into Coicis Semen; Eggs are shelled, dipped in pepper and salt, and eaten with porridge.
Artemisiae Argyi Ciba: Wash the Artemisiae Argyi leaves, cut them into pieces, mash them with steamed granular sweet potato powder and glutinous rice into a sticky state, knead them into round, moist and tender Artemisiae Argyi Ciba, and steam them in a steamer to serve.
Yimiao meatballs: Chop pork and cleaned Yimiao separately, add appropriate amount of salt, ginger, monosodium glutamate, cooking oil and eggs, mix well and process into meatballs or patties, or cook, fry and steam. It has the effect of warming the stomach.
Scrambled eggs with wormwood buds: Wash wormwood buds, chop them, add eggs, stir well, add salt, put oil in a hot pan and fry until cooked. It has appetizing effect.
Jiaozi, Ai Xiang: Chop pork, chicken and wormwood separately, add salt, monosodium glutamate and starch, stir to make stuffing, wrap it in jiaozi and cook it.
Braised chicken with wormwood incense: put a piece of tender chicken in a casserole, add shredded ginger, and add wormwood leaves after boiling. When the mugwort leaves are ripe, they will be cooked. Cooking chicken with fresh wormwood is not as bitter as old wormwood, and you will feel a strong aroma when you eat it.