The role of mugwort leaves is very important in Chinese medicine health preservation

In the past, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, people would collect fresh mugwort leaves from the mountains before the sun came out, and hang them by the door after returning home to ward off ghosts and evil spirits. In fact, on the other hand, it was also to prevent mosquitoes and insects. If the mugwort leaves are lit, the mosquito repellent effect will be better. In modern society, people generally lead fast-paced lives, and this custom has gradually been ignored. However, the role of mugwort has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and has been widely used in various fields.

Especially in the field of medicine, mugwort is used as a Chinese herbal medicine. Because mugwort can remove cold and dampness, stop metrorrhagia, etc., it is also used as the main ingredient of compound medicines. The very famous moxibustion is to use moxa leaves made into moxa sticks and apply moxibustion to the acupuncture points of the human body, so as to achieve the purpose of regulating qi and blood and curing diseases.

The role of mugwort:

1. To treat rheumatic pain in the legs: take 60 grams of mugwort leaves and mash 1 onion. Make a pack of cloth, dip it in hot white wine and rub the affected area until the pain stops.

2. To treat common warts and flat warts: Pick fresh moxa leaves, rub them until juice comes out, and rub them on the surface of the warts until the skin becomes slightly hot or slightly red, but do not break the skin. Do this twice a day.

3. Treatment of habitual miscarriage and infertility: Place the lit moxa stick on the abdomen near the navel, and let the smoke gradually enter the meridians in the body along the acupuncture points near the navel, regulating the meridians and qi and blood. At the same time, it also has a very good conditioning effect on the uterus and ovaries. Long-term persistence can also treat habitual miscarriage and infertility.

4. Treatment of scrotal eczema: Put 20 grams of fresh moxa leaves in a pot, add 500 ml of water, boil, fumigate and wash the scrotum while it is hot, and then apply a hot towel on the scrotum.

5. To treat cold type dysmenorrhea: take 30 grams of angelica, 15 grams of mugwort, 60 grams of brown sugar, boil in water and get 3 bowls, take warm in 3 times.

6. To treat bronchitis: Take 18 grams of mugwort, 30 grams each of dandelion and fresh houttuynia cordata, fry them together until dry, grind them into powder, make them into soybean-sized pills with refined honey, take twice a day, 9 grams each time.

Because of the effects of mugwort, it has become widely used in modern medicine. Especially for female friends, if they have irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea, it is very effective to use mugwort together with Chuanxiong, white peony root, angelica, etc. Today, mugwort has gone abroad and is being sold all over the world, contributing to the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine around the world.