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What are the benefits of soaking feet with wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has obvious curative effect on women's deficiency cold, irregular menstruation, abdominal pain and metrorrhagia. It is a good medicine for gynecology, so it is also called Fucao. Folium Artemisiae Argyi also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, which can warm menstruation and expel dampness and coldness in the body. Female friends who are prone to cold hands and feet and dysmenorrhea can soak their feet with water boiled by wormwood every day, which not only accelerates blood circulation but also treats beriberi, killing two birds with one stone.

Moxibustion made of wormwood is the raw material of moxibustion. Moxibustion on Dragon Boat Festival is the best way to strengthen yang, which can improve winter diseases such as rheumatism and arthritis. Ai Rong made of wormwood can also be stuffed in the belly pocket, which can improve stomach cold. Cake and stewed chicken made of fresh folium Artemisiae Argyi are very beneficial to dispel summer heat, strengthen spleen and induce diuresis.

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People often mix Artemisia argyi leaves with different herbs and ingredients to make medicated diet. For example, in jiaozi with wormwood leaves, fresh wormwood leaves and other ingredients are chopped, and seasonings are added to make stuffing, which is eaten in jiaozi with white bread. It can dispel cold, relieve pain, strengthen spleen and replenish qi, and is suitable for people with cold constitution, deficiency of spleen and stomach, chronic diarrhea, chronic cough and asthma, etc.

Another example is wormwood hen soup, which is good at relieving symptoms such as menstrual weakness, abdominal cold pain, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, insomnia and dreaminess. Another example is boiling eggs with mugwort leaves and red dates, which has the effects of warming meridians and dispelling cold, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, preventing miscarriage and nourishing heart, and is suitable for people with dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia or deficiency-cold constitution. Although mugwort leaves have many benefits, not everyone can eat them. Because of its mild nature, it is forbidden or used with caution for those who belong to damp heat constitution, Yin deficiency and excess heat or excessive fire.

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