Chinese medicine believes that Artemisia argyi is a hemostatic drug that warms meridians blindly and is good at warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and removing dampness. Most suitable for women with blood gas stagnation. Therefore, mugwort has the title of "health grass" for women. Today, let's learn about the health care usage of mugwort leaves!
Wonderful use of wormwood
1 Drink mugwort tea for irregular menstruation.
Many women have irregular menstruation and cold hands and feet. Drinking mugwort tea at this time has a good effect.
In addition, if women have edema around the physiological cycle or after staying up late and working overtime, they can try to drink wormwood tea to reduce swelling. It is best to drink with ginger, brown sugar and jujube.
Specific practice: Take fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi 15g, wash it, add 5 slices of ginger, 5 slices of jujube and appropriate amount of brown sugar, and decoct it in water for female dysmenorrhea.
Or take fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi 15g and 20g of white sugar to make soup, which is suitable for women's menstrual irritability, burning urine, dry mouth and bitter taste. You can also take about 3 grams of dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi and brew your offspring's tea with boiling water.
2 Gong Han drinks wormwood leaf and egg soup.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm in nature, expelling cold and removing dampness." For women with irregular uterine cold or infertility due to uterine cold, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can warm uterus and relieve pain, and the combination of Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Colla Corii Asini can also warm uterus and stop bleeding.
Specific practices:
Ingredients: 300g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, 4 eggs, 30g of ginger, and appropriate amount of pepper, oil and salt for later use.
Beat eggs into a bowl and stir well, chop ginger, then add pepper, Jiang Mo, oil and salt and stir well; Add an appropriate amount of oil into the pot, pour the mixed eggs into the pot and fry them into egg cakes, then cut them into small pieces, and add boiling water 10 minute; Finally, add Folium Artemisiae Argyi, cook for 3-5 minutes, and season.
3 joint pain, take a bath with mugwort leaves.
Many women will have joint pain after delivery. In addition to the changes in hormone levels, the body shape of women during pregnancy has also changed significantly, which will obviously change the stress points of the spine and lower limbs.
After delivery, the body is "lightened" and the stress points of the joints should be readjusted. This "tossing" back and forth, weak women are prone to symptoms of joint pain, and it is recommended to take a bath with wormwood leaves, which can effectively relieve joint pain.
Specific method: Boil half a bucket of water with100g fresh folium Artemisiae Argyi (or 50g dried product) and a few slices of ginger, and then pour the water into a hot water tank with moderate temperature for bathing.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming channels and dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and relieving pain. Postpartum women with deficiency of both qi and blood are vulnerable to pathogenic wind, cold and dampness, and should be used for boiling water and bathing.
4. Women with low back pain use mugwort leaf hot compress.
When women have low back pain, they will first think of kidney deficiency, because "waist is the house of kidney". But the kidney in TCM is different from that in western medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney is a circulatory system directly or indirectly related to human reproduction, growth and development, digestion, endocrine and metabolism. To relieve this kind of low back pain, you can use Artemisia argyi to recuperate. If you can find fresh mugwort leaves, if you can't, you can also go to a regular Chinese medicine shop to buy them.
How to do it: If it's fresh Artemisia argyi leaves, we can fry it in a wok first, and add a little sand when frying, which makes it easier to fry. After frying the mugwort leaves, rub them with your hands and mix them with a little vinegar.
When you use it, put the fried Folium Artemisiae Argyi in the microwave oven to heat it, then put it in a cloth bag and apply it for 30 to 40 minutes when your back hurts.
5 dandruff and alopecia
Wash your hair with Folium Artemisiae Argyi water: If you boil a bowl of water with Folium Artemisiae Argyi, there will be some pure grass essential oil and grass essential oil in the water, which can regulate qi and blood, warm meridians, dispel cold and dampness, relieve pain, resist bacteria and diminish inflammation, stimulate digestive glands, relieve cough and phlegm, promote blood circulation and replenish qi ... Since there is "anti-bacteria and diminish inflammation", the effect of relieving itching and removing dandruff is very good, and the key point is not to hurt hair quality and scalp.
Water boiled with dried absinthe;
Step 1: Boil a bowl of wormwood water with wormwood, the thicker the better.
Step 2: Wet the whole scalp with wormwood water, then wrap the hair with a towel and let wormwood water stay on the scalp for 10 minute.
Step 3: Wash with shampoo or warm water.
Step 4: Comb your hair with your fingers 100 times.
Wash your hair with wormwood water about 3 times a week in the early stage; After the itching disappears, you can wash it 1-2 times a week, which is very good for the maintenance of the whole scalp and hair! Shampoo with wormwood 1 time, the scalp is basically not itchy; Insist on washing for 3 times and the basic dandruff is gone; Stick to it for 3 months, it seems that my hair is getting fluffy, and my usual headaches are much better!
6 weak body and cold
Folium Artemisiae Argyi soaking feet: The ancients also paid attention to the process of soaking feet. Generally, 50 ~ 100g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi is put into an iron basin, boiled with water, and then poured into a wooden basin. It is best to use a wooden basin for soaking feet, not an iron basin or an aluminum basin, because metal is easy to cool and is not conducive to heating. After the water temperature drops to about 40℃, you can start soaking your feet.
The amount of water should be at least able to immerse the whole instep, which can reach above the ankle and below the knee. It is advisable to soak your feet for about half an hour. In the meantime, if the water is cold, you can add some hot water appropriately, preferably until you sweat slightly.
When soaking feet, you are also particular.
For example, if you want to warm and tonify kidney-yang, you can choose about 2 1 point in the evening, because at this time, the kidney meridian is relatively weak in qi and blood. At this time, after soaking your feet, the blood vessels in your body will expand, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation and promoting blood circulation and metabolism in your body.
Nervous nerves and tired kidneys can be completely relaxed and fully regulated at this time. After soaking, you can also do a foot massage for a few minutes to further soothe the viscera and organs.
The ancients also paid attention to the collocation of flowers and plants. They will add other flowers and plants to Artemisia argyi water according to their own physical conditions to play a therapeutic role.
For example, cold, joint pain and bronchitis can add ginger; With varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, numbness of hands and feet and blood stasis, safflower can be added; Jealousy, toothache, irritability, excessive internal heat, cold, edema of legs and feet can be added with refined salt; For sweaty feet, smelly feet, beriberi and eczema, pepper can be added. Wait a minute.
It's true that mugwort leaves are women's health care grass. Many problems of women can be treated with mugwort leaves, so these methods may be remembered, maybe they will be used one day!