Wormwood is pungent and warm. Smoked wormwood leaves can drive away mosquitoes and flies and avoid dirty air, so families will burn wormwood to prevent infectious diseases and protect the health of their families. Smoked with moxa sticks for 30 minutes can play a role in disinfecting rooms, expelling pests and purifying the air, and also has a preventive effect on respiratory infectious diseases, and it is fragrant, non-toxic and harmless.
It should be reminded that patients with respiratory diseases such as asthma should use mugwort with caution. It is not that mugwort is harmful to this kind of diseases, but that many patients are allergic to all kinds of smoking and aggravate their symptoms.
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Medicinal: The whole herb is used as medicine, which has the functions of warming channels, eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, preventing miscarriage and resisting allergy. It is recorded in medical books of past dynasties as "the essential medicine to stop bleeding" and is also one of the commonly used drugs in gynecology. It is especially suitable for gynecological diseases of deficiency-cold type, as well as chronic bronchitis and asthma in the elderly. It can be used for preventing mother-to-child transmission during boiling water and bathing in puerperium, or making into pillow and medicated vest, and preventing and treating chronic bronchitis or asthma, deficiency cold and stomachache in the elderly.
Economy: drying and mashing Artemisia argyi leaves to get "moxa", which can be made into moxa stick moxibustion and used as the raw material of "inkpad" In addition, whole grass is used as an insecticidal pesticide or smoked tobacco as a room disinfection and insecticide. Artemisia argyi powder is dried and crushed, which is a high-quality feed additive for livestock and poultry. It can also be used as a natural plant dye.
People's Network-March is a good season to eat wormwood.