Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a kind of weed that we often see. In fact, it can also be said to be medicinal materials. People often take a bath with mugwort leaves before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, which has the effect of health preservation. In fact, everyone's moxibustion moxa sticks are also made of mugwort leaves. There are actually many functions of mugwort leaves, just to see if you can use them. What are the uses of mugwort leaves? How to keep healthy with mugwort leaves?

1, the use of mugwort leaves

1 Eliminating dampness and expelling toxin

Whether it is fresh wormwood or dried wormwood, boiling and bathing have the effect of eliminating dampness and expelling toxin, and have unexpected therapeutic effects on various skin itching.

And the smell of wormwood can repel all kinds of pests, especially tiny insects.

2 Moxibustion treatment

Some people use dry wormwood to fumigate pain or sores on their bodies, which has a good therapeutic effect.

Moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine is an ideal treatment method with little side effects, which aims at acupuncture points after burning moxa sticks made of dried moxa sticks and fumigates moxibustion with moxa fire.

3 detoxification ventilation

Use moxibustion to smoke the stomach and discharge the waste in the body.

Digestion pipeline is the main absorption and excretion pipeline of human body, and it is also one of the important detoxification pipelines of human body. The human body excretes waste in time through feces, urine and sweat. People can also detoxify by drinking water and eating some food.

2. Other ways to eat ginger

1 ginger tea

Ginger tea is made by decocting a little tea leaves and a few peeled ginger in water and taking it after meals. It can sweat and relieve exterior syndrome, warm lung and relieve cough, and has miraculous effect on influenza, typhoid fever and cough.

2 ginger juice+milk

Ginger milk is the most famous traditional snack in Panyu, also known as "ginger milk" or "buried ginger milk". It has a history of 100 years and is very famous in Hong Kong and Macao.

Ginger milk-like tofu flower is similar to steamed eggs, but sweeter and smoother than the first two. Its taste is sweet and slightly pungent, and it has the effects of harmonizing stomach, expelling cold and caring skin.

3 ginger+brown sugar

Ginger sugar is usually made of ginger and brown sugar, which is sweet and spicy.

They have the effect of eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, and are very suitable for eating in humid climate.

3. How to distinguish Ai Chen/Ai Xin?

1 identified by smell and color

Ai Chen is generally light yellow, while Ai Xin is generally turquoise.

Ai Chen smells pure and mild because it contains a lot of volatile oil, and the leaves of Artemisia argyi have a strong pungent smell because of its high oil content.

2 Advantages of Ai Chen

Ai Chen contains less volatile oil, which burns slowly and has moderate firepower. After burning, there is less smoke, and the oil of wormwood has completely evaporated, which will not cause harm to human body. But also has good air permeability, and the wormwood ash is not easy to fall off.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has a strong smell, contains a large amount of volatile oil, and has a fast burning speed and strong firepower. After burning, there is a lot of smoke, and the ash of Folium Artemisiae Argyi is easy to fall off, which is easy to damage skin and blood vessels.

4. The efficacy of mugwort leaves.

Chinese medicine believes that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of invigorating qi and blood and dispelling cold and dampness. It is an indispensable Chinese herbal medicine and a common product for family health care of ordinary people. Can be used for foot bath, moxibustion and food preparation.

Antipruritic: Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of eliminating dampness, relieving itching and inhibiting bacteria. Skin itching caused by eczema and foot itching caused by bacterial growth can be decocted with Folium Artemisiae Argyi water, washed and soaked.

Treatment of rheumatic pain: Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of promoting qi and blood circulation, dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming meridians and activating collaterals. Knee pads and waist pads made of chrysanthemum and Artemisia argyi can relieve joint swelling, soreness and stiffness, backache and backache.

Conditioning dysmenorrhea: Artemisia argyi has the function of warming blood and regulating menstruation, which can strengthen the uterus, so it will be added to the prescription for treating gynecological diseases. Female dysmenorrhea can be treated by eating wormwood boiled eggs, wormwood hen soup or wormwood brown sugar tea.