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What are the health care functions of mugwort leaves and how to use them?
Artemisia argyi is also called Folium Artemisiae Argyi. Is that an old saying? After three years at home, the doctor doesn't have to come? Statement. It is a wild vegetable and a traditional Chinese medicine. Southerners often eat it, and the north generally uses it as medicine. Folium Artemisiae Argyi also has certain uses. Let me tell you something.

The health care function of mugwort leaves? Folium Artemisiae Argyi ward off evil spirits? In the past, this was considered a superstition. Modern medical research shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has good health care function. The ancients said that Artemisia argyi had certain scientific truth in exorcising evil spirits. The uses of wormwood can be roughly divided into two categories: oral use and external use. As early as more than two thousand years ago, the spiritual pivot in Huangdi Neijing? "Is there a recorded meaning? What needle does not do, what is suitable for moxibustion?

1, regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold and removing dampness.

Fire moxibustion is the most famous external medicine. Moxibustion therapy is to smoke and burn specific acupoints with the help of the medicinal power and warm stimulation generated by the burning of mugwort leaves, so as to achieve the purpose of getting rid of diseases and keeping in good health. Frequent use of moxibustion has the effects of regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold and removing dampness;

2, treatment of various gynecological diseases, acute and chronic inflammation

Wormwood is widely used, especially in gynecological diseases. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, wormwood is warm, bitter and pungent, and it is mainly used to treat common diseases of women such as vomiting blood, hemoptysis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, and restless fetal movement. In addition, wormwood has therapeutic effects on acute and chronic inflammation such as rheumatoid arthritis, cold diarrhea, bronchitis, enteritis, acute urethritis and cystitis.

3, inhibit or kill a variety of pathogenic bacteria and viruses

The volatile oil (aromatic component) in Artemisia argyi leaves can inhibit or kill many pathogenic bacteria and viruses. When burning, it can not only inhibit or kill bacteria and viruses in the surrounding environment, but also distribute in the nasal respiratory tract of people, killing bacteria and viruses entering the nasal respiratory tract, forming a micro-membrane barrier in the nose and mouth to prevent the invasion of bacteria and viruses. By burning mugwort leaves, smoking or decocting mugwort leaves for bathing, because of the higher temperature, the aroma components volatilize more thoroughly and the effect will be better.

4. Enhance immunity

Disinfecting incense mainly containing Folium Artemisiae Argyi can significantly increase the content of specific immunoglobulin A in nasal secretions of healthy people. Long-term application of mugwort bath can also enhance human immune function, enhance disease resistance and significantly reduce the incidence of influenza, indicating that mugwort bath can also improve immunity to a certain extent.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi soak feet, dispel diseases and strengthen the body.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is an aromatic medicine with mild nature and bitter taste. It has many functions such as stopping hematemesis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, and dispelling cold. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves can play a certain role in getting rid of diseases and strengthening the body, but it is mild in nature, so it is not suitable for people suffering from fever for the time being.

Method 1: wormwood and pepper can remove sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and eczema.

Method 2: wormwood safflower can improve leg varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, paralysis of hands and feet and local blood stasis.

Method 3: wormwood ginger can effectively treat a series of diseases such as wind-cold cold, arthropathy, rheumatoid, cough, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi+eggs, remove the body's aversion to cold.

Effect of wormwood on boiled eggs:

1. Boiled eggs with Folium Artemisiae Argyi have a good effect of warming uterus, and have a very good therapeutic effect on menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea and infertility caused by palace cold.

2. Boiled eggs with Folium Artemisiae Argyi does not help pregnancy, but it is really a good medicine for women who are infertile due to uterine cold, because naturally they can get pregnant smoothly after uterine cold is cured.

3. Boiled eggs with wormwood leaves can help women to relieve dysmenorrhea, especially dysmenorrhea caused by palace cold. Normal women eating boiled eggs with mugwort leaves can prevent palace cold and irregular menstruation.

How to cook eggs with wormwood;

Folium Artemisiae Argyi 10g, dried ginger 10g, 2 eggs, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

It's easy to do. Slice the dried ginger, put it into the pot with the washed Artemisia argyi leaves and eggs, add appropriate amount of water, and cook the eggs with slow fire first. Then, peel the boiled eggs, put them in a pot and cook for 10 minutes, and add brown sugar. Okay, a steaming bite, full of firepower? Ai Jiang boiled eggs? You're finished. Eating eggs and drinking juice is delicious, but the effect is completely equivalent to bitter Chinese medicine.

Common usage of mugwort leaf

Artemisia argyi sachet is the warmest memory of Dragon Boat Festival. Grind folium artemisiae argyi into moxa wool and stuff it into a bag sewn with rags.

wash

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of invigorating qi and blood, dispelling cold and removing dampness, stopping bleeding, sleeping peacefully and warming menstruation. It has certain curative effect on folliculitis and eczema. Take 30 fresh mugwort leaves? 50 grams, brewed in boiling water in the bathtub? 10 minutes, take out the mugwort leaves, add water to adjust the water temperature to a suitable temperature before taking a bath.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi foot bath bag: grind dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi into moxa, and put it in a tea bag and seal it. When soaking feet at night, put it in a wooden bucket and soak it in boiling water for a while, and then soak it for 15 minutes, which is more refreshing.

eat

The ancients in China used to eat mugwort leaves, and mugwort porridge is cool and easy to digest, which is really a good summer product.

Practice: Wash the rice, soak it in clear water for 2 hours, wash a small amount of fresh folium Artemisiae Argyi, chop it up, add folium Artemisiae Argyi to the rice and cook it with slow fire to make porridge. Finally, add salt or sugar and honey according to your own taste to make it fragrant and slightly bitter, and remove the fire.

moxibustion

A long cylindrical roll made of cotton paper wrapped with moxa sticks is moxa sticks, which is mainly used for moxibustion. Moxibustion is one of the oldest medical technologies in China, which belongs to the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. It can warm channels and dispel cold, promote qi and blood circulation, dispel cold and remove dampness. It is suitable for arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, muscle numbness, joint and limb pain, etc.

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