How to make handmade moxa sticks

You can follow these 3 steps if you want to make moxa sticks:

First: Harvesting and storing moxa.

Second: Processing of moxa leaves.

Third: Rolling the moxa sticks.

The first link: mugwort harvesting and storage technology

We chose the harvesting time before the Dragon Boat Festival, after three days. Weather clear mugwort harvested in the sun for 2~3 days. So that the mugwort leaves, can dry a 6_7%. Then it can be transported home. Mugwort transportation home after also spread out, can not put it piled up together. A large number of mugwort piled together, can produce high temperature, heat to the inside of the essential oil of the mugwort burned off. The leaves will turn yellow and its potency will be greatly reduced. Spread out under a natural ventilation and dry place to dry.

When the leaves of mugwort are dried for 7~8%, they can be defoliated. After the leaves of mugwort are separated, it is a storage part. It needs to be stored in a natural, dry and ventilated environment for about three years. Most are using woven bag device. After three years of storage, this time is called aged wormwood. Mugwort harvesting leaf storage process are here.

The second link: the processing of moxa velvet

The moxa leaves are processed into moxa velvet by machine or manually, and the machine can be a large crusher. Artificial DIY, can be hammered by hand. The disadvantage is that it is less efficient and more laborious. There is another one is to process moxa velvet with stone mortar. Its advantage is that it imitates the ancient method of craftsmanship and has a high medicinal content. His disadvantages are that the efficiency is low and the price of moxa is high. Very few economic conditions moxa obsessed people use. The price of stone mortar moxa is 8 to 10 times that of machine moxa. Because the labor cost is too high. Processing moxa leaves into moxa velvet, there is a process of sifting powder. Nowadays, they also use machines to sift the powder. According to the moxa, the quality of high and low. Traditional business, the grade of moxa is divided into 10.115.120.125.130.1 with these ratios to indicate that the grade of moxa. The larger the number, the purer the moxa, and the more expensive it is! At the same time as it is over-processed, the more of the medicinal components inside the mugwort will be lost. So, in my experience, I recommend using a neutral ratio of moxa sticks and moxa floss, which has a better overall cost performance. Processing moxa leaves into moxa velvet produces two substances. The first is moxa velvet and the second is moxa powder. Ai velvet can be processed into moxa sticks.

The third link: is the roll of moxa

Most of the moxa rolls are now rolled by machine, hand machine rolled moxa his efficiency is fast, good quality! Ai velvet uniform, burning fire uniform! After the moxa rolled, but also an air-drying process. Air-drying moxa in the process of rolling, rice paste joint rolling moxa moisture. In a dry, ventilated environment, moxa naturally air-dried, and then can be bagged, storage warehouse. Handmade process is complicated, if there is a ready-made moxa is of course to ready-made it, like the moxa of Ai Bodhirong with good, and Ai Bodhirong is a set of moxa planting, moxa products manufacturing, Chinese medicine health care in one, with also rest assured.