How to cut wormwood paper-cut

The paper-cutting method of Folium Artemisiae Argyi is as follows:

1. Prepare dried wormwood. The wormwood picked before and after the Dragon Boat Festival should be dried in the sun for more than 3 years in Chenfang, and made within 10 days before and after the severe cold solar terms.

2. Hammer the wormwood leaves, with a special wooden hammer, put the wormwood leaves into a stone mortar and hammer them repeatedly to separate the petioles of the wormwood leaves.

3. Sieve filtration: gradually hammer the wormwood leaves into a ball, filter with a sieve to remove the hard stick impurities, and the rest is wormwood.

4. Dry the moxa stick, spread the filtered moxa stick on a clean surface and dry it in a windless place.

How to use moxa:

1, roll a layer of hard paper outside the moxa stick to make a long cylindrical instrument called moxa stick. Moxibustion stick can be lit as usual, so that moxibustion can be fully burned and released, and acupuncture points of human body can be smoked with hand-held moxa sticks.

2. The moxa stick can be made into a conical moxa stick, which can generally be pinched into a conical shape by hand or ground into a conical shape with a grinding tool. The size can be determined according to the clinical treatment purpose of patients, and it can be divided into big moxa sticks, middle moxa sticks and little moxa sticks.