Can wormwood repel mosquitoes?

The whole plant of wormwood can be used as insecticidal pesticide; Fumigation can be used as indoor disinfection and insecticide.

The efficacy of wormwood:

1. dehumidification and disinfection: the special substances contained in Artemisia argyi leaves have the function of sterilization and disinfection. Although Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the function of eliminating dampness and disinfection, the effect of treating eczema is not obvious. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as an adjuvant to treat eczema.

2, stop bleeding and drive cold: Artemisia argyi is a kind of warm food, eating Artemisia argyi can play a role in driving cold. In addition, mugwort leaves are also of great benefit to the hemostatic effect of warming meridians for girls.

3, calm and soothe the nerves: We all often use mugwort leaves to soak our feet, which can promote blood circulation, soothe the nerves and help sleep? Quality.

4, mosquito repellent: Artemisia argyi itself has a special fragrance, which can make mosquitoes very scared. In summer, rubbing some water on the skin of mugwort can drive away mosquitoes.

Wormwood is also good food. In the traditional food in southern China, there is a kind of Ciba made of wormwood as the main raw material. In the Dongjiang Valley of Guangdong Province, local people pick fresh leaves and buds of wormwood as vegetables in winter and spring.

Extended data

Wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as medicine, which is warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure in yang, and can activate the twelve meridians, restore yang, regulate qi and blood, dispel dampness and dispel cold, stop bleeding and prevent miscarriage. It is also commonly used in acupuncture and moxibustion.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold and removing dampness. Treat menoxenia, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, abortion, and metrorrhagia, and radically treat rheumatic arthritis, head wind, and intra-monthly wind. Because it can cut ice to make it round and cure all diseases, it is the most commonly used medicine for doctors.

Modern experimental studies have proved that Artemisia argyi leaves have antibacterial and antiviral effects; Antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; Hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; Sedative and antiallergic effects; Protect liver and gallbladder, etc. Wormwood can be used as recipes such as wormwood tea, wormwood soup and wormwood porridge to enhance the body's resistance to diseases.

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