Herb name: mugwort leafOther names: Ai Bingtai mugwort medical herb moxibustion grass wormwood mugwort huangcaojia mugwort sweet mugwort peng mugwort wolf tail mugwort fragrant mugwort wild lotus head A and mugwort mugwort
p>The English name is Argy Wormwood Leaf
The Latin name is Folium Artemisiae Argyi
It is the dried leaf of mugwort, a plant in the Asteraceae family.
Moxamites ("The Book of Songs"), also known as: Bingtai ("Er Zhi"), mugwort ("Er Ya" Guo Pu's annotation), medical grass ("Bie Lu"), moxibustion grass ( "Piya"), Qi Ai ("Biography of Qi Ai"), Huang Cao ("Compendium"), Jia Ai ("Yilin Compilation Essentials"), Tian Ai ("Materia Medica Qiu Yuan"), Cao Peng, Ai Peng , Wolftail Artemisia, fragrant mugwort, wild lotus head, Aji mugwort.
Perennial herb, 45-120 cm tall.
The stem is upright, round, hard, lignified at the base, covered with gray-white soft hairs, and branches from the middle and above.
Single leaves, alternate; the leaves on the lower part of the stem wither when they bloom; the middle leaves have short stalks, the leaves are oval-elliptical, deeply pinnately lobed, the lobes are elliptical-lanceolate, and the edges are coarsely serrated. , the upper surface is dark green, sparsely covered with white soft hairs, and densely covered with glandular spots, the lower surface is gray green, densely covered with gray white hairs; the leaves near the top of the stem are sessile, and sometimes the entire edge is completely undivided, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. .
The inflorescence is raceme-shaped and terminal, composed of many flower heads; the involucral bracts have 4 to 5 layers, the outer layer is smaller, ovate-lanceolate, and the middle and inner layers are larger. Broad oval, with membranous edges, densely woolly; receptacle flat, hemispherical, with more than 10 female and bisexual flowers on top; female flowers are not very developed, about 1 cm long, without obvious corolla; bisexual flowers are equal in length to female flowers , the corolla is tubular, red, with 5 lobes at the top; 5 stamens, with short filaments, inserted at the base of the corolla; the style is slender, with 2 branches at the top, and the ovary is inferior and has 1 chamber.
Achenes are oblong.
The flowering period is from July to October.
Grows on roadsides, grasslands, wilderness, etc.
There are also cultivators.
Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.
The fruit of this plant (Mugwort) is also used for medicinal purposes. Please refer to this article for details.
Wild mugwort, a plant belonging to the same genus, is also known as fire mugwort and May mugwort.
Height 45-100 cm.
The middle leaves have 1 to 2 pinnate divisions, and the lobes are oval, lanceolate to linear, with entire or serrated edges. There are no glandular points on the upper surface of the leaf, which is nearly bald, and the lower surface is covered with white silky hairs; The upper leaves are almost stalkless, and the lobes are as narrow as lines. The flowering period is from September to October.
Distributed in most parts of the country.
The leaves can also be used as moxa leaves.
Regulates qi and blood, drives away cold and dampness; warms menstruation, stops bleeding, and prevents miscarriage.
It can be used to treat cold and pain in the heart and stomach, diarrhea, muscle cramps, chronic dysentery, vomiting, bleeding, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, vaginal discharge, fetal movement, carbuncle, and scabies.
① "Bie Lu": Mainly moxibustion for all kinds of diseases.
It can be decoctioned to stop diarrhea, vomiting blood, sores in the lower part, and bleeding in women.
It can benefit Yin Qi, build muscles, ward off wind and cold, and make people have children.
② Tao Hongjing: Pounding the leaves and using them for moxibustion can also stop bleeding.
The juice also kills roundworms.
Decoction the leaves with bitter wine to treat ringworm.
③"Treatise on Properties of Medicine": Stops metrorrhagia, relieves fetus and relieves abdominal pain.
Relieves red and white diarrhea and Wuzang hemorrhoids and bloody diarrhea.
Take it for a long time to stop cold dysentery.
If you feel bad in your heart, take the leaves and pound the juice to drink.
④ "Tang Materia Medica": Mainly used for bleeding, epistaxis, pus and blood dysentery, boiled in water and powdered in pills.
⑤ "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica": Treats sores, metrorrhagia, cholera, and stops fetal bleeding.
⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": It can stop cholera and tendons, treat heartache, nasal congestion, and leukorrhagia.
⑦ "Pearl Sac": Warms the stomach.
⑧ "Lv Yanyan Materia Medica": For the treatment of sore throat, heat congestion, and dietary problems, pound the juice and rinse it.
⑨ "Wang Haogu": Treats diseases with pulse, abdominal distension and distention, and waist dissolving as if sitting in water.
⑩"Compendium": Warming, cooling, and dehumidifying.
⑾ "Compendium of Materia Medica": ward off wind, cold, nirvana and miasma.
⑿ "Compendium of Materia Medica": regulates menstruation and relieves depression, regulates qi and promotes blood circulation.
Treatment of postpartum convulsions and umbilical sores in children.
Oral administration: decoction, 1 to 3 yuan; take into pills, powder or puree.
External use: Pound velvet into sticks or make moxa sticks for fumigation, pound for application, boil in water for fumigation and washing, or stir-fry and warm for ironing.