Wormwood can be eaten, worn and used as medicine. Chinese medicine calls wormwood a "diamond in the grass", which has good health care and even therapeutic effects from fresh leaves to dry roots.
In addition to being a green group, try these fancy usages of wormwood to recuperate symptoms and have better health care effect!
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood is pure Yang grass. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is bitter and pungent, warm in nature, and enters liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It has the functions of regulating qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, warming channels and relieving pain, preventing miscarriage and stopping bleeding.
It is also helpful to regulate long-term diarrhea caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, to regulate yang deficiency and fear of cold, and to treat acute redness, swelling and heat pain.
1 food: wormwood eggs
Oral administration of Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of warming meridians and dispelling cold, strengthening the body resistance, strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. Its tender leaves are weak in warming and dredging, which is more suitable for oral conditioning, people who are afraid of cold, cold hands and feet and irregular stools, and also has a certain relief effect on cold dysmenorrhea.
Ingredients: wormwood 10g, egg 10g, 3-5 slices of ginger.
Exercise:
(1) Wash wormwood and ginger, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of clear water, boil them with strong fire, then simmer for 25 minutes, and then filter them after the ceasefire, and take the liquid medicine for later use. Eggs cooked in advance, peeled and sliced for later use.
(2) Put the filtered medicinal juice and shelled eggs into a pot and cook for 5- 10 minutes.
Dai: Artemisia argyi sachet
Different from the tender leaves of Artemisia argyi, the volatile oil concentration of old leaves of Artemisia argyi is higher, which is suitable for mosquito repellent.
Zhao Jiping, director of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, told us that Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be made into a sachet to wear, which has the effect of waking up, inducing resuscitation and aromatic turbidity, and is suitable for people who are wet and dizzy.
3 bubbles: mugwort leaves soak feet.
If middle-aged and elderly people are afraid of cold, they are usually tired, weak and cold. You can try soaking your feet or taking a bath with Folium Artemisiae Argyi water, which has the effect of warming meridians and dredging collaterals.
Usage: Add 1-2 slices of ginger into 30g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi (preferably Folium Artemisiae Argyi) to boil, then take out the leaves to soak feet or take a bath with water. As a daily health care, ordinary people can reduce the use of mugwort leaves.
Taboo: it is not recommended to use the constitution of excess heat syndrome, which is characterized by burning eyes, sores on the mouth and tongue, heavy breath, dry stool, foul smell and bad temper.
4 moxibustion: moxibustion
"I've been at home for three years, and I don't need a doctor." In Qichun, the hometown of Li Shizhen, mugwort is an essential health care product for every household.
The picked folium Artemisiae Argyi should be processed, dried, left for 3-5 years to become Ai Chen, and then pounded into moxa wool before it can be used for moxibustion. The older you get, the milder your firepower will be, and the more comfortable your skin will feel when you apply moxibustion.
Moxibustion mainly has five functions: preventing diseases and protecting health, warming meridians and dredging collaterals, supporting yang and resolving hard mass, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, and inducing heat to release people. Moxibustion with different acupoints has different effects. Specific acupoint moxibustion should follow the doctor's advice.
Taboo: when the stool is dry and bitter, and the symptoms of systemic fire are particularly obvious, it is generally not recommended to do systemic moxibustion. Don't moxibustion for a long time every day.
Application: promoting blood circulation to relieve pain and relieve cervical spondylosis of hand anesthesia.
Bowing your head for a long time, you always feel uncomfortable in the cervical spine, and even dizziness and numbness may occur. This may indicate that you have some cervical spondylosis, and the carotid artery is near the cervical vertebra. Poor cervical spine may affect blood supply to the brain, leading to dizziness, numbness, neck and shoulder pain and other symptoms.
For patients with cold hand numbness and cervical spondylosis, Director Wen Jianmin of the Department of Bone and Joint Science and Technology, Wangjing Hospital, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences shared "Ai Vinegar Hot Compression Decoction" to help warm meridians, promote blood circulation and relieve pain.
Ingredients: wormwood 30g, vinegar 300ml, 53-degree liquor 100ml.
Usage: Soak wormwood in 300ml white vinegar for 1 hour, then boil it for 10 minute, and then add 100ml 53-degree liquor. After the filter residue is reduced to about 40 degrees, take a small square towel to absorb juice and apply it to the neck for 20 to 30 minutes every day.
During the Qingming Festival, it is natural to eat green balls. During the Qingming holiday, the whole family ate green balls around the table, and the whole family was happy ~
I also share two kinds of Yong ying here, one is sweet and the other is salty. I wonder what flavor your family likes to eat?
1 Leisure Guo Ming
Ingredients: 500g glutinous rice flour, 50g sticky rice flour, 300g pickles, 50g wormwood, 0/50g bamboo shoots and 0/50g meat.
Exercise:
1. Wash wormwood with clear water, put it in a pot to boil, add a spoonful of salt, and put wormwood in blanched water. Take out the blanched wormwood immediately, bathe in cold water, and then pour it into a blender to stir it into a paste;
2. Chop bamboo shoots, pickles and meat, stir-fry them in an oil pan, and add a proper amount of seasoning to taste them for later use;
3. Add boiling water to the two kinds of flour, pour in the wormwood paste, and drain the water while stirring. After the flour is lumped, knead it into smooth dough by hand;
4. After the dough wakes up for two or three hours, knead it into strips, cut it into small pieces, then wrap it with stuffing and steam it in the pot.
Two sweet green balls.
Traditional green balls are colored with boiled wheat green or wormwood juice. If you can't buy it, you can use Malantou, spinach, vegetables and chrysanthemum instead, as long as you like.
Ingredients: Folium Artemisiae Argyi, glutinous rice, cooked noodles, lard, egg yolk, sugar, red beans, hot water and kiwi fruit.
Exercise:
1, mugwort juice. Cleaning Folium Artemisiae Argyi, blanching, and juicing in a cooking machine for later use;
2. Mix dough. Take a large bowl, add glutinous rice flour and cooked flour (ratio 2: 1), add proper amount of lard and mugwort juice, and stir the flour evenly first. Then add appropriate amount of white sugar and boiled water, stir well, and then add 15g lard;
Step 3 steam the dough. Take a large plate, grease the bottom of the plate, spread the prepared dough on the plate and steam it in a steamer for 20 minutes;
4. Adjust the stuffing (you can choose the stuffing freely). Here's how to make egg yolk pine stuffing and kiwi bean paste stuffing.
① Egg yolk stuffed with meat floss: put oil in a hot pot to cool, stir-fry salted egg yolk with high fire, then cook wine, add proper amount of cooking oil, stir-fry until the saliva turns into sand, add meat floss, turn off the fire, stir-fry evenly with the remaining temperature, and take it out for later use.
② Kiwi bean paste stuffing: soak the red beans, cook them on low heat until they bloom, fine them with a cooking machine, put them in a pot, add sugar and stir-fry until they are dry. Then make the bean paste stuffing into balls, add kiwi fruit into the stuffing, and slice.
5. Bao Qingtuan. Steam the green balls, take them out, wash them by hand, rub them evenly while they are hot, then rub them into strips and cut them into even doses. Knead into a cake bowl, wrap with salted egg yolk or red bean paste, and knead into balls.
In fact, there are two ways to make green balls: one is to wrap them first and then steam them; And steaming-kneading-wrapping method.
The chef of the health care center even suggested the second method, which is to pat/knead the steamed glutinous rice by hand, so that the dough is more chewy, faster and more convenient, and the finished product is soft, waxy and elastic.