Sleep is very important for people, whether in rural or urban areas. At first, wormwood was used as acupuncture, which can stimulate acupoints, warm meridians and activate collaterals, and dispel wind and cold. At the same time, wormwood can also be used to exercise bones and muscles and relieve pain in winter. At present, many centers have moxibustion and moxa stick fumigation physiotherapy, using their own special functions.
Old people in rural areas often use wormwood as pillows, which can improve eyesight, soothe the nerves and relieve insomnia. The steps of making a pillow are as follows: first collect wormwood, then clean it, chop it up, finally dry it, and then put the dried wormwood into a pillowcase. In this way, the production of the wormwood pillow is completed. In fact, such a pillow will have a special smell of wormwood when we sleep, which is more conducive to a good sleep.
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, wormwood can be used as medicine, which has the functions of warming, five poisons, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Therefore, it is better to use wormwood as a pillow, which is why people in rural areas often use wormwood as a pillow. In fact, in addition to this function, wormwood also has the function of sterilization and disinfection. There are many bacteria in the pillow we usually sleep with. wormwood can kill these bacteria and is also very beneficial to our human body.
The wormwood pillow has the effects of sterilizing, dispelling cold, improving eyesight, calming nerves, dredging cerebral vessels of the elderly, and preventing cardiovascular diseases. So this kind of pillow is very popular in our country.