Mugwort is a common Chinese herbal medicine, with a certain health care effect, and some people say that wild wormwood is better than mugwort, so mugwort is good or wild wormwood is good?

Mugwort is good or wild wormwood

Depending on the situation.

Mugwort generally refers to a wider range, whether planted or wild, and Artemisia absinthium is an alias of mugwort, wild Artemisia refers to the wild mugwort, the two are the same plant.

But wild wormwood grows in the wild, without artificial intervention, is a purely natural plant, the general artificial cultivation of wormwood, if the scientific and rational intervention, then its efficacy may be better than the wild, but if the abuse of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc. planted wormwood, there may be pesticide residues, affecting the quality of the wormwood.

Is the efficacy of wormwood and wild wormwood the same

The same.

Mugwort and wild wormwood have no variety of points, belonging to the same plant, then the nutrients and efficacy of which are the same, there is no difference, the same with the dispersal of cold pain, menstrual efficacy, commonly used in the lesser abdominal cold, menstrual cold, cold and infertility and other gynecological diseases.

Can be used to take internally, can also be used externally, with the unique flavor has the role of insect repellent, fresh can also be used as daily food, such as moxa leaf poop, moxa leaf buns and so on.

When to harvest wild mugwort

April-May.

Wild Artemisia and wormwood harvesting time is similar, rhizomes are in March around the beginning of germination, wait until April can start harvesting, wormwood in mid-May is the most mature period.

But the wild Artemisia absinthium has no artificial intervention, the nutrition of its root system will be poorer than that of artificially grown Artemisia absinthium, so the maturity of the time will be later, probably to the second half of May or so is the most mature period.

How to deal with mugwort after harvesting Directly eat

Fresh mugwort into the water more, taste better, has great food value, pass can be made directly into a variety of food to eat, can add flavor to the food.

Sun-dried treatment

Part of the general harvest of mugwort used for food, but more will be dried and processed, to be used in medicine, after the sun-dried mugwort, more easy to save, can be volatilized to send out more efficacy, the application of a wider range, in addition to internal and external use, can also be used to repel worms, make pillows to use.