When harvesting wormwood, only the top of the stem and leaf must be cut off. With the continuous innovation of Chinese medicine technology, people have a new understanding of Chinese medicine, and most people need Chinese medicine treatment, which leads to an increasing demand for wormwood. After harvesting wormwood once before and after Dragon Boat Festival, proper amount of water and fertilization, underground roots will germinate again, and can be harvested again in September of the lunar calendar to increase yield and income. From the point of view of the overall medicinal characteristics of plants, the medicinal value of roots and stems is limited and cannot be utilized. The focus is on the harvesting and refining process of Artemisia argyi leaves. From this point of view, the harvesting method of self-grown wormwood suggests maintaining the root cause and sustainable development.
Most wormwood grows and expands from underground roots. When harvesting, it is harvested by a professional harvester. The roots left in the ground make the winter in the soil safe and reduce the storage. When you dig in the second year, you only need to dig roots in dense places to transplant, thus reducing the planting cost. When harvesting wormwood, if it is rooted, it is easy to mix root sand into leaves during leaf picking, which will affect the quality of wormwood.
Wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen. Wormwood has a fragrant smell. It is dried and made into a pillow to help you sleep. Picked new wormwood, twisted into wormwood rope and dried in the sun can drive away mosquitoes and flies. Artemisia argyi is a Chinese herbal medicine, which has the functions of warming channels, eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, preventing miscarriage and resisting allergy.