What is wormwood?
Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a soft cotton-like article made of Folium Artemisiae Argyi after repeated sun-pestle, beating, crushing and screening off impurities and dust. Ai Rong is the raw material for making moxa sticks and the main material for moxibustion. Is prepared from dried leaves of Folium Artemisiae Argyi of Compositae. Its color is gray, soft as velvet, nonflammable and flameless, and it is fragrant and suitable for moxibustion. According to the degree of processing, there are coarse and fine. The thick ones are mostly used for warming needles or making moxa sticks, and the thin ones are mostly used for making moxa sticks. Texture is more suitable for the elderly.
What are the functions of wormwood?
Ai Rong has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, warming channels to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, promoting granulation and preventing miscarriage, and restoring yang to save adverse events. In daily life, moxibustion or decoction is often used to treat the above diseases. It has a good effect of warming yang and dispelling cold for amenorrhea and deficiency of qi and blood yang.
Rich in flavonoids, polysaccharides, alcohols and microsatellite elements, it can effectively regulate human physiological nutrition supplement. It has obvious antagonistic effect on virus infection and bacterial infection. It has antiasthmatic, antitussive, antiallergic, hemostatic, anticoagulant and immune enhancing effects. In addition, moxibustion on six kinds of people in the human body has a good therapeutic effect on wind-cold, blood stasis, official cold, irregular menstruation and metrorrhagia.