In ancient times, people living in caves could only burn firewood to make a fire in the season when winter winds began. Some people with joint pain, backache and leg pain are relieved or even cured during warm-up. People began to consciously smoke and roast the affected area with wooden strips and grass stems. In constant attempts, it is found that wormwood has the best effect. Thus, the history of moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine was opened. Wormwood is mainly distributed in East Asia, such as the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Mongolia. China is distributed in northeast, north, east, south, southwest, Shaanxi and Gansu. Strong adaptability, generally growing in roadside wilderness and grassland. As long as there is plenty of sunshine and good drainage, it grows, but it grows better in wet and fertile soil.

Efficacy and function of wormwood

(A) the nutritional value of wormwood

Modern pharmacological research shows that there are many kinds of volatile oils in Folium Artemisiae Argyi, among which 1.8- cineole (accounting for more than 50%), and others are α-cochineal, sesquiterpene enol and their esters. Air-dried leaves contain minerals 10. 13%, fat 2.59%, protein 25.85%, vitamins A, B 1, B2, C, etc. Moxibustion with mugwort leaves is generally better as you get older, so there is a saying that "seven years of illness and three years of moxa" (Mencius). Wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as medicine, which is warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure in yang, and can activate the twelve meridians, restore yang, regulate qi and blood, dispel dampness and dispel cold, stop bleeding and prevent miscarriage. It is also commonly used in acupuncture and moxibustion. Therefore, it is also called "herbal medicine", and the popular "herbal bath" in Taiwan Province Province mostly uses wormwood.

(2) the efficacy of wormwood

Wormwood is bitter, dry and pungent, and can regulate qi and blood, warm meridians, dispel cold and dampness, and stop cold pain. It is an important medicine in gynecology. It can be used for the treatment of epigastric pain, irregular menstruation and infertility due to cold uterus, such as Aifu Nuangong Pill. Stir-frying charcoal to stop bleeding can be used to treat menorrhagia, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia due to deficiency-cold, and missed pregnancy, such as Jiao Tang Ai. This product is mashed and made into moxa sticks and moxa sticks. External moxibustion can dispel cold, relieve pain and warm qi and blood. External washing with decoction can cure wet sores and scabies, eliminate dampness and relieve itching. Regarding the nature of mugwort leaves, the materia medica says: "mugwort leaves can moxibustion all diseases." "Herbal Medicine from the New" says: "Folium Artemisiae Argyi is bitter in taste, warm in nature, ripe and hot, and good at yang, which can restore yang loss, dredge the twelve meridians, take three yin, regulate qi and blood, dispel cold and remove dampness, warm uterus, ... moxibustion with fire can dredge meridians and eliminate all diseases." It shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi, as a moxibustion material, has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, dispelling yin and cold, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, and restoring yang to save adverse events.

(3) the function of wormwood

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has been preventing plague for thousands of years, and Chinese herbal medicines can also be obtained locally. Pharmacological research of modern medicine shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug, which can inhibit and kill many viruses and bacteria, and has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on respiratory diseases. Fumigation of mugwort leaves is a simple and feasible epidemic prevention method. Wormwood, also known as wormwood and mugwort. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which produces peculiar fragrance and can drive away mosquitoes, flies and insects and purify the air. In traditional Chinese medicine, wormwood is often used as medicine, which has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming uterus and eliminating cold and dampness. Moxibustion In traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, moxa processed from folium Artemisiae Argyi is burned on acupoints to achieve the purpose of treating diseases.

(4) Medicinal properties of wormwood

Wormwood has a close relationship with people's life in China. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put wormwood at home to ward off evil spirits. The withered plants are soaked in water for disinfection and itching relief. Mothers often bathe or fumigate with wormwood water. Traditional medical theory holds that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of qi and blood, expelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Modern experimental studies have proved that Artemisia argyi leaves have antibacterial and antiviral effects; Antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; Hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; Sedative and antiallergic effects; Protect liver and gallbladder, etc. Wormwood can be used as recipes such as wormwood tea, wormwood soup and wormwood porridge to enhance the body's resistance to diseases.

Ai Zhen Hao Moxibustion Plaster is a therapeutic method to prevent and treat diseases by stimulating acupuncture points or specific parts on the body surface with moxa heat generated by moxibustion materials made of folium Artemisiae Argyi, and regulating the physiological and biochemical functions of human disorders by stimulating menstrual activities. Now research has confirmed that moxibustion has a magical effect because the combined action of heat and moxa can produce chemicals with therapeutic effects, which have the functions of antioxidation and scavenging free radicals. Through the action of heat, not only the effective drug components in the moxa stick are not destroyed, but they are enhanced and attached to the acupoints, and the moxibustion heat penetrates into the body to play a role. The infrared rays generated during moxibustion can provide necessary energy for metabolic activity and immune function of body cells, and can also provide activation energy for pathological cells.