What is the function of wormwood? Is it really as amazing as the internet says?

Isn't wormwood amazing? Everyone who has been to the countryside knows that they have seen wormwood, and more people pull wormwood by themselves on the fifth day of May. It's just that wormwood has a wide range of functions and is very practical. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine. Folium Artemisiae Argyi tastes bitter and warm, and enters liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving pain, warming meridians, stopping bleeding, eliminating dampness, relieving itching, warming meridians and dredging collaterals.

The most commonly used and common methods of wormwood

Cell foot

Decoct Folium Artemisiae Argyi with water to soak feet. Chinese medicine believes that cough due to wind-cold can attack the lungs, and wormwood leaves warm the middle and dispel the cold. The volatile oil contained in it can also relieve cough, asthma and expectorant after being absorbed by human body. Therefore, soaking feet or soaking in water with mugwort leaves also has the effects of warming and dispersing cold pathogens, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. For women who often have cold hands and feet and frequent dysmenorrhea, they can use wormwood to boil water to soak their feet, which can warm the meridians, dispel cold and dampness, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Pregnant women can protect their babies by soaking their feet with wormwood soup.

culicifuge

Wormwood has the function of preventing mosquitoes. There are many mosquitoes in rural areas in summer, and many people will choose wormwood as a natural mosquito repellent incense to repel mosquitoes. In the process of incomplete combustion, wormwood will emit a fragrance, which can effectively drive away mosquitoes and is a natural mosquito-repellent incense. Moreover, this smell can promote sleep and improve the quality of human sleep.

moxibustion

People make moxa leaves into moxa wool to fumigate acupoints. Through heat and its warm nature, it can warm qi and blood and penetrate meridians. In terms of treatment, mugwort can actually treat deficiency-cold diseases, and the effect on bleeding is the same. People regard it as a "good medicine for women" and use it to stop uterine bleeding, irregular menstruation, infertility due to palace cold, dysmenorrhea due to deficiency cold and excessive leucorrhea. In fact, they don't understand the word "deficiency-cold". Therefore, in the treatment of diseases, in order to achieve the best therapeutic effect, we must be correct in syndrome differentiation.

Ayebas

Newborn babies' skin lacks natural protective function and is prone to skin problems such as eczema and dermatitis. Children's respiratory tract is also vulnerable to environmental pollution and germs. Natural wormwood plant essence has antibacterial components, which can deeply clean skin dirt and kill bacteria. When bathing with Folium Artemisiae Argyi, the volatile oil of Folium Artemisiae Argyi volatilizes with water vapor and distributes in children's mouth, nose and respiratory tract, which can not only kill bacteria and viruses, but also form a micro-membrane barrier to prevent the invasion of bacteria and viruses.

Generally speaking, wormwood has many functions, whether in medicine or in daily life, so many people think it is magical.