True blue will never stain. After burning, you can know whether the moxa stick is adulterated by smelling it. The burning method is to distinguish between true and false. The specific method is to light the moxa stick. After the clear smoke comes up, it won't be too choking to take a sip of pure moxa stick. If adulterated smoke is very pungent.

2. Look at the ashes

As long as you don't move when burning, the ash won't fall by itself. It can last about 3-5CM in length. It's a ball of ash, and it's gray inside after it's parted.

3. Look at the place of origin

Medicinal materials are authentic, and the effect of wormwood produced in different places is different. The best producing area of wormwood is Qichun, Hubei, followed by Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and so on.

4. Smell the smell

This is not lit to smell. The intensity of the smell is meaningless, because many moxa sticks have added essence. Smell the smell is whether it is natural or not. Clear fragrance should have a refreshing effect.

5. Look at the color

Through the discrimination of the above methods, it is determined that the moxa stick is true, so the color is of course better in Huang Yue. Of course, if you want to know what color mugwort leaves are, you can buy some mugwort leaves yourself and beat them at home to make moxa for comparison. There is a certain limit to the yellow color of moxa. If it is not so yellow that it loses its true color, it will be false.

Okay, Ai Rong looks like there will be a lot of dark spots in the middle. Some people think it is sand or impurities. Actually, it's not. If you don't believe it, you'll know by looking at the ash after it's burned. The sand can't be burned. Those dark spots are precisely the functional ingredients. There are a lot of mugwort strips. So the more moxa sticks you buy, the better.

The most important thing to distinguish moxa sticks is comprehensive comparison. Don't judge a moxa stick by any of the above five points. It is necessary to compare in many ways.

The mugwort stick is a kind of mugwort and wormwood, which is made of valuable Chinese herbal medicine. It is named after it is produced in Qizhou (formerly known as Qichun County). Therefore, mugwort sticks are a specialty of Qichun County, the hometown of Li Shizhen. Mugwort sticks contain 17 known compounds, and the contents of volatile oil, total flavonoids and calorific value of burning are obviously better than those of mugwort sticks produced in other areas. The effect of moxibustion with moxa sticks is far better than that of ordinary moxa sticks. Artemisia argyi is named after its place of origin. The leaves of Artemisia argyi are large and thick, and the seven tips are authentic medicinal materials. The plant height of Artemisia argyi can reach more than 2.5 meters. The color of the wormwood pounded by the wormwood leaves in the Dragon Boat Festival is grayish brown, while the wormwood pounded at other times is khaki, which is genuine. The leaves of mugwort picked in autumn are not suitable for moxibustion. The picking time of Artemisia argyi is around the Dragon Boat Festival, which has the highest medicinal value, the best curative effect and the strongest moxibustion feeling.

Among the moxa sticks, Master Ai's handmade moxa sticks are the best!