Ai leaves are much wrinkled, broken, with a short stalk. The complete leaf blade is ovate-elliptic when flattened, pinnately parted, lobes elliptic-lanceolate, with irregular coarsely serrated edges; the upper surface is gray-green or dark yellow-green with sparse pilose and glandular dots; the lower surface is densely covered with gray-white tomentum. The texture is soft. The odor is fresh and fragrant, and the taste is bitter.

Ai Ye can dispel cold and relieve pain, warm menstruation and stop bleeding. It is used in treating cold pain in the lower abdomen, irregular menstruation, infertility in cold uterus, vomiting blood, epistaxis, excessive menstrual bleeding, and bleeding in pregnancy; and externally treating itching of skin. Warming menstruation and stopping bleeding. It is used for deficiency-cold bleeding. Mugwort leaves can be used fresh or after concocting. The upper surface of fried mugwort leaves is dark yellowish-green to brownish-green, the lower surface is grayish-green to yellowish-green, some have burnt aroma and bitter taste.

Fried mugwort leaves can be divided into two kinds of stir-fry and charcoal stir-fry. Clear fried is after the screening of the middle product after Ai Ye, placed into the iron pot has been heated to about 150 degrees, rapid stir frying until slightly odor scorched, remove the cooling, in the sieve sieve ash.

The charcoal stir-fry is to stir-fry moxa leaves into moxa charcoal for better use and more uses. After the selection of the intermediate product of ai leaves, placed in the iron pot has been heated to about 150 degrees Celsius, rapid stir frying to burnt black out of the spraying and stir frying a little (burned) after cooling through the eyes of the sieve to remove the ash chips. Most of the charcoal of the fried mugwort leaves are crumpled and broken leaves, dark brown to black, brittle and fragile, with burnt aroma and bitter taste. Appropriate amount for external use, for moxibustion or fumigation.

Fried mugwort leaves have a very wide range of uses, especially effective for women. Let's take a look at what the effects of fried mugwort leaves are.

1, the treatment of various inflammatory chronic bronchitis.

2, the treatment of menstrual disorders menstrual period prolongation.

3, the treatment of infertility.

4, acupuncture.

5, weight loss.

6, antibacterial effect.

7, asthma effect.

8, choleretic effect.

9, regulating qi and blood, expelling cold and dampness.

10, hemostatic effect.

11, promote uterine contraction.

12, moxa leaf bath.