Sorting dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi to remove impurities.

This is picked out impurities, such as mugwort stems and sticks, and even sand and stones. If it is made by machine, these impurities will enter the pulverizer with the moxa.

Put the sorted Folium Artemisiae Argyi into a stone mortar and tamp it to 1500 or more.

Finishing the crushed Folium Artemisiae Argyi, placing in a stone mortar, and pulverizing into moxa.

The compacted moxa is patiently sorted. Fine impurities are difficult to pick, which is particularly labor-consuming.

Put the sorted moxa into a coarse sieve, and vigorously dry the fine foam, that is, the broken fine foam impurities.

Screen out fine foam impurities.

The screened wormwood is sorted for the fourth time.

After hammering (at least 3000 times) and finishing, the finished moxa stick came out.

Manufacturing technology of handmade moxa sticks

1. First, weigh 20g of moxa sticks.

2. Put the weighed moxa stick on the moxa stick machine and pre-roll it once.

3. Put the pre-rolled moxa sticks on the moxa stick machine, put away the rice paper coated with homemade paste and roll it again.

4. roll moxa sticks.

5. Break off the exposed moxa sticks at both ends, and compact and weigh both ends of the moxa sticks, generally 20g (floating 2g up and down).

6. Rolled finished moxa sticks. Diameter 180mm, length 190mm, weight 20g (about 2mm in length and 2g in weight).