What is the function of wormwood?

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has excellent therapeutic effect on deficiency-cold bleeding and abdominal pain, and can effectively treat female diseases such as deficiency-cold, irregular menstruation, abortion and metrorrhagia. If women feel cold after delivery, abdominal pain after menstruation, stomachache or abdominal pain in the elderly, you can put the cooked Folium Artemisiae Argyi in a bag and apply it to the painful part. Chong ren deficiency cold, epigastric cold pain, long-term infertility, Artemisia argyi combined with Cyperus rotundus, Angelica sinensis, Evodia rutaecarpa and Cinnamomum cassia can play a role in dispelling cold and relieving pain.

2. Eliminating dampness and dispelling cold

Wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, enters the spleen, liver and kidney, and has the effect of dispelling cold and removing dampness, and can be used for rheumatoid arthritis, wind in the head, wind in the middle of the month, and female deficiency cold.

3. Asthma and cough

Artemisia argyi has antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects, and can be used to prevent and treat chronic bronchitis or asthma in the elderly. Anti-allergic Folium Artemisiae Argyi can play an anti-allergic role, and has a very good effect on treating wet sores and scabies, eliminating dampness and relieving itching.

4, antibacterial

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is an antibacterial and antiviral drug, which can inhibit and kill most viruses and bacteria, and has excellent preventive and therapeutic effects on respiratory diseases. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a simple and easy disinfection and antibacterial method when smoking and drinking. In addition, the stems and leaves of Artemisia argyi contain volatile aromatic oil, which can produce other fragrances, and can be used to repel mosquitoes and insects and purify the air. Chinese medicine often processes Artemisia argyi leaves into "Artemisia argyi" and burns it on acupoints to treat diseases.

Extended data

Artemisia argyi has a special fragrance, which can be used as a pillow to help sleep and relieve fatigue. Boil the wormwood leaves, then dilute them with water, take a bath and remove the long red pimples.

In addition, it can repel mosquitoes, flies, sterilize and prevent diseases. Artemisia argyi is also used in the "moxibustion" of acupuncture. "Moxibustion" is to light the wormwood leaves and then smoke and burn the acupoints. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves is good for health. Because it has the function of treating diseases, especially after being collected by dew in May, the drug effect is the best.

Artemisia argyi is also an edible plant. Mugwort can be used as a recipe for mugwort tea, mugwort soup, mugwort porridge, mugwort steamed bread, mugwort cake, mugwort balls and so on, so as to enhance the human body's resistance to diseases.

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