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What is the use of mugwort?

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Ai to leaf medicine, warm, bitter taste, non-toxic, pure Yang's nature, through the twelve meridians, with the return of yang, the qi and blood, the dampness and cold, stopping bleeding, and fetal efficacy, but also commonly used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also known as "medical grass", Taiwan is popular "herbal bath", most of which is the choice of mugwort.

Mugwort use:

1, mugwort has a menstrual regulation and stop bleeding_Anti-fetal avalanches_disperses cold and removes dampness effect. Treatment of menstrual disorders _ menstrual pain abdominal pain _ miscarriage _ uterine bleeding, root cure rheumatic arthritis _ head wind _ wind in the month. Because it can cut ice to make round, and can be scorched for all diseases, the most commonly used medicine for medical practitioners.

2, modern experimental research has proved that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; asthma, cough and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and antiallergic effects; hepatoprotective choleretic effects. Mugwort can be used as "mugwort tea", "mugwort soup", "mugwort porridge" and other recipes to enhance the body's resistance to disease.

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3. Mugwort is also a very good food, and in the traditional foods of southern China, there is a kind of patty cake that is made with mugwort made as the main ingredient. That is, with the fresh and tender mugwort and glutinous rice flour before and after the Qingming Festival in the ratio of one to two and together, wrapped with peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar and other fillings (some areas will be added to the mung bean paste), and then steam it can be. In Guangdong's Dongjiang Valley, locals pick fresh mugwort leaves and buds in the winter and spring to eat as vegetables.