How does mugwort make mugwort?

The method of self-made moxa sticks is as follows:

1. Dry the collected wormwood stems, leaving only the wormwood leaves, and put the wormwood leaves in a sunny place. Don't use the dehydrator and dryer to dry them.

2. The dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi is preserved for a long time, so it is sorted for the first time when picking impurities. In ancient moxa sticks, if they are made by machines, these impurities can follow the moxa sticks into the pulverizer.

3. Put the sorted Folium Artemisiae Argyi into a stone mortar, pound it out repeatedly, knead and repeatedly sort impurities, and hammer grind it, first pound it with a coarse stone mortar, and then pound it with a fine stone mortar for at least 3000 times to obtain fine hairs for rice moxibustion.

Fourth, the limited condition of screen ramming is that it must be processed under sunny days and low outdoor humidity. Because the purer the wormwood is, the stronger its water absorption capacity is, and the more it is sieved and mashed, after removing impurities such as stems in the wormwood leaves, the fragrance of wormwood will be weaker.

If pure Artemisia argyi is screened and pounded in wet weather, the aroma of pure Artemisia argyi can't cover up the moisture absorbed at that time and the rancid smell brewed later, so it is easy to make Artemisia argyi have a stale smell. Although it is pure, its medicinal properties are wrong. Therefore, screening and pounding must be carried out in sunny days to harvest Artemisia argyi with a very light fragrance.

The screen of about 5.3 mm is more suitable for later screening, and the 8-mesh screen can be used as the final dust removal screen for cashmere collection. Then pure moxa sticks often need to be mashed and sieved many times, and the proportion can reach 15: 1 or above before they can be directly moxibustion.

Characteristics and uses of wormwood.

1, the characteristics of wormwood

When burning, the fire is mild, and its warmth can directly penetrate into the skin and muscles, making people feel comfortable. The quality of moxa sticks can directly affect the effect of moxibustion. Moxibustion is more effective for dry moxa sticks with good quality, no impurities, long storage time, and the better the curative effect, otherwise it will be worse.

Not only that, inferior moxa sticks, burning firepower is fierce, and it is easy for patients to feel burning pain. Ai Rong, a kind of impurity with more impurities, often bursts when burning.

2. Usage of wormwood

(1) Wrap the moxa stick with a layer of hard paper and make it into a long cylindrical instrument called moxa stick. Moxibustion stick can fully burn and release moxibustion as usual. Moxibustion sticks can be used to fumigate human acupoints, which is a method of moxa sticks.

(2) wormwood can be made into a cone-shaped wormwood, which is usually pinched by hand or shaped with a grinding tool. The size can be determined according to the purpose of clinical treatment of patients, which can be divided into big moxa cone, middle moxa cone and little moxa cone.

The moxa cone made of moxa sticks can be directly placed on human skin for moxibustion, or some spacers such as ginger slices, garlic slices, vaseline and oil can be placed between the moxa cone and the skin for indirect moxibustion. ?