What are the benefits of mugwort water fumigation

I believe everyone is familiar with mugwort, especially in rural areas where it can be seen everywhere, and mugwort is very cheap, but how much do you know about mugwort? The small mugwort has very magical effects, such as sterilization, warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, etc., especially mugwort water fumigation has many benefits, so let’s learn with me the benefits of mugwort water fumigation.

Mugwort leaves - the leaves of mugwort, a perennial shrubby herb of the Asteraceae family, are picked when the flowers bloom in late spring and summer, and used after being dried in the sun or in the shade. Our country has a long-standing custom of "picking mugwort during the Dragon Boat Festival and hanging it on the doors to ward off poisonous air."

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mugwort is pungent and warm in nature, bitter in taste, and enters the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians. It has the functions of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, dispelling wind and relieving itching. It is suitable for abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea and skin itching. Warm acupuncture using various moxa sticks and moxa cones made of moxa can warm the qi and blood, penetrate the meridians, and treat various cold pain syndromes. As the saying goes

“Always keep mugwort at home, and young and old will be free from diseases”, which shows that mugwort is very beneficial to maintaining good health. Winter is a season of cold winds, closed doors and windows, and little air convection, making it a high-risk season for many upper respiratory tract diseases. Regular use of moxa to fumigate rooms can effectively prevent the occurrence of respiratory diseases such as influenza and maintain human health.

Studies have found that fumigation with mugwort leaves is a good way to disinfect and sterilize homes. Experiments have shown that fumigation with mugwort at a concentration of 1-5g/m2 for 30-60 minutes can kill 14 pathogenic bacteria to varying degrees, including Staphylococcus aureus, beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa; it also has a certain inhibitory effect on adenovirus, influenza virus, herpes virus, etc. In addition, fumigation of mugwort leaves has a certain anti-pneumoniae effect, and can significantly increase the content of nonspecific immunoglobulin A in nasal secretions, thereby enhancing human immunity.

Practice has shown that fumigation with mugwort leaves 1 to 2 times a month at normal times and 1 to 2 times a week in winter and the influenza epidemic season can significantly reduce the number of various common pathogenic bacteria and viruses, thereby effectively preventing the occurrence of various respiratory infectious diseases.

Mugwort has a pleasant fragrance. Applying its water extract or mugwort oil to the skin or smelling it can not only be antibacterial and antiviral, but also have antitussive, antiasthmatic, expectorant, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects. Learning to use moxa sticks for moxibustion and fumigation with moxa leaves can purify the air, prevent diseases and keep fit.

Uses of safflower:

[Source] Dried flowers of safflower, a plant of the Asteraceae family.

[Nature and flavor and meridians entered] Spicy, warming and entered the heart and liver meridians.

[Performance and Characteristics] This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and unblocking in nature. It specifically enters the heart, liver and blood. It is good at activating blood circulation and unblocking meridians, dispersing blood stasis and relieving symptoms and pain. It is used to treat various symptoms of blood stasis, and is most effective in treating colds.

[Effects] Promote blood circulation and relieve menstruation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain.

[Main symptoms treated] 1. Blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, accumulation of symptoms, swelling and pain due to falls.

2. The macules are dark in color (take medicines for clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying).

3. Angina pectoris of coronary heart disease and thromboangiitis obliterans belong to the type of qi stagnation and blood stasis.

[Compatibility] Safflower and peach kernel: Safflower is pungent, dispersing, warming and unblocking, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and relieving pain; peach kernel is sweet, moistening, bitter and descending in nature, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, moistening the intestines and relieving constipation. The two medicines complement each other and enhance the blood circulation and stasis removal effects. They can be used for any blood stasis syndrome.

Through the above description of the effects of mugwort and a brief introduction to the benefits of mugwort water fumigation, everyone must have a new understanding of mugwort and fall in love with this Chinese herbal medicine. In addition, although mugwort water has magical effects, it still needs to be examined and treated by a doctor in a regular hospital when facing diseases. I hope that my description can be of some help to you. I wish you happiness.