1, burning smell

True blue will never be dyed. After burning, you can know whether the moxa stick is adulterated by smelling it. Burning is to distinguish between true and false. The specific method is to point the moxa stick. After the smoke comes up, it won't be too choking to take a sip of pure moxa stick. If adulterated smoke is pungent.

2. Look at these ashes

As long as it doesn't move when burning, the ash won't fall by itself. It can last about 3-5 cm long. It's a mass of ash, and it's gray inside after separation. Very delicate hands.

Step 3 look at the place of origin

The medicinal materials are authentic, and the effects of wormwood produced in different places are different. The best producing area of wormwood is Qichun, Hubei, followed by Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Henan.

Step 4 smell it

This is not lit to smell. The intensity of the smell is meaningless, because many moxa sticks are added with essence. Whether the smell is natural or not. Clear fragrance should have a refreshing effect.

5. Look at this color

Through the discrimination of the above methods, it is confirmed that the moxa stick is true, so the color is certainly better in Huang Yue. Of course, if you want to know what color mugwort leaves are, you can buy some mugwort leaves yourself and make them into sticks at home for comparison. There is a limit to the yellow color of wormwood. If it's not yellow enough to lose its true color, it's fake.

Well, Ai Rong seems to have a lot of black spots in the middle. Some people think it is sand or impurities. Actually, it's not. If you don't believe it, you can look at the ashes after it burns. Sand can't be burned. Those black spots are just functional ingredients. There are many moxa sticks. So the more moxa sticks you buy, the better.

The most important thing to distinguish moxa sticks is comprehensive comparison. Don't judge a moxa stick by any of the above five points. Need to compare in many ways.

Moxibustion is a kind of wormwood, which is made of precious Chinese herbal medicine. It was named after it was produced in qi zhou (formerly called Qichun County). Therefore, moxa sticks are a specialty of Qichun County, Li Shizhen's hometown. The moxa sticks contain 17 kinds of known compounds, and the contents of volatile oil, total flavonoids and combustion calorific value are obviously better than those of moxa sticks produced in other regions. The effect of moxa stick moxibustion is far better than that of ordinary moxa sticks. Artemisia argyi is named after its origin. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is big and thick, and its seven tips are authentic medicinal materials. The plant height of Artemisia argyi can reach more than 2.5 meters. The color of wormwood pounded with wormwood leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival is taupe, and the wormwood pounded at other times is khaki, which is genuine. Artemisia argyi leaves picked in autumn are not suitable for moxibustion. Artemisia argyi was picked around the Dragon Boat Festival, with the highest medicinal value, the best curative effect and the strongest sense of moxibustion. Among the moxa sticks, Master Ai's handmade moxa sticks are the best!