What is the purpose of releasing mugwort during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Mugwort has a wide range of uses in life. For example, it can assist in the treatment of many gynecological diseases. Especially for women who do not pay attention to personal hygiene and have poor resistance, their genitals are easily infected by bacteria. At this time, you can use mugwort to clean the genitals, which has a good therapeutic effect. In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people in many places will use mugwort to place it at the door. What are the benefits of doing this?

What is the purpose of releasing mugwort during the Dragon Boat Festival?

1. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Modern experimental research has proved that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects. When trauma occurs, light the mugwort and fumigate the wound. The medicinal power it emits can act on the wound. Although it may be painful at first, it can quickly sterilize and reduce inflammation locally, which is beneficial to wound healing.

2. Regulate menstruation and stop bleeding

Mugwort also has the effects of dispelling cold and dampness, regulating menstruation and stopping bleeding. It has certain therapeutic effects on women's irregular menstruation, menstrual pain and abdominal pain. Women can take a bath with mugwort. If conditions do not permit, soaking your feet is also a good choice. It can accelerate the body's blood circulation and improve symptoms such as cold hands and feet and dysmenorrhea. In addition to its antibacterial effect, it can also remove athlete's foot.

3. Relieve skin itching

Many infants and even adults will suffer from skin allergies and itching due to diseases such as eczema. Wash the fresh mugwort, add an appropriate amount of water, boil it over high heat, take out the mugwort, pour the mugwort water into the bathtub and take a bath to relieve the symptoms.

4. Enhance immunity

Mugwort has the effects of dispelling cold, removing dampness, inhibiting bacteria and anti-inflammatory. Soaking your feet or taking a bath with it can significantly improve people's immunity, and it is especially effective for colds.

In addition, mugwort also has the function of clearing the meridians. As a Chinese herbal medicine, it needs to be adjusted slowly. Don't give up easily if there is not much effect for a while. When you have a cold, you can combine soaking mugwort with drinking ginger water to double the effect.

5. Make food

In the south, it is customary to mix fresh mugwort and glutinous rice flour in a ratio of one to two around the Qingming Festival, wrap them with fillings such as peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar, and steam them to make mugwort cakes, which are soft, sticky, delicious and fragrant. In addition, fresh mugwort leaves and buds can also be eaten as vegetables.

What are the dietary recipes for mugwort?

1. Sweet mugwort soup: prepare 15 grams of mugwort and 20 grams of sugar, boil them together into soup and drink it. Sweet mugwort soup can treat symptoms such as menstrual irritability, red and burning pain in urine, bitter and dry mouth, and weak pulse. It can effectively clear away heat and dampness, and promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

2. Mugwort cakes: prepare appropriate amount of mugwort and glutinous rice flour. First, beat the mugwort into a paste, then pour the mugwort paste into the glutinous rice flour and mix it into dough and make mugwort cakes. Finally, bake them and they are ready to eat. Mugwort cakes have beauty benefits and are suitable for female friends to eat as a snack during confinement.

3. Mugwort and hen soup: prepare 15 grams of mugwort and an old hen. Wash and cut the old hen into pieces, and boil them together with the mugwort into soup. You can eat it during menstruation. Hen mugwort soup can replenish qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and calm the mind, and can effectively treat insomnia, palpitations and abdominal pain.

4. Mugwort and brown sugar water: prepare 15 grams of mugwort, 5 grams of ginger, five dates and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Boil all the ingredients together in water and drink it. It can effectively treat dysmenorrhea and other symptoms.

5. Mugwort and eggs: prepare 10 grams of mugwort, two eggs and 15 grams of ginger. First, add appropriate amount of water to all the ingredients and cook the eggs. Then take out the eggs, peel them and put them into the original soup. Finally, simmer them for a while before eating. Mugwort eggs can effectively treat the symptoms of excessive menstruation.