Safflower is the dried flower of safflower in the family of Asteraceae, which is mainly used to activate blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain.

Mugwort is bitter and pungent in flavor, warm in nature, and belongs to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. Bitter dry pungent dispersal, can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, stop cold pain, with the treatment of cold pain in the abdomen and stomach, menstrual cold disorders, cold uterus infertility, etc., fried charcoal to stop bleeding, can be used to treat the cold menstrual bleeding, collapse and leakage, pregnancy and fetal leakage, as a gynecological essential medicine.

The function of mugwort can be much more than that. Mugwort is bitter, pungent, warm, and belongs to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. Bitter dry pungent dispersal, can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and damp, stop cold pain, with the treatment of cold pain in the abdomen and stomach, menstrual cold disorders, cold infertility, etc., fried charcoal to stop bleeding, can be used to treat the cold menstrual bleeding, collapse and leakage, pregnancy and fetal leakage, for the gynecological essential drugs.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "Ai leaves are slightly bitter and too pungent when raw, slightly pungent and too bitter when ripe, warm and ripe and hot, pure Yang. It can take the true fire of the sun, and can return to the dying yuanyang. Served to go to the three yin, and chase all the cold and dampness, turn the suicidal gas for the harmony. Scorched through the meridians, and cure a hundred kinds of disease and evil, up with the disease for the Kangtai, its work is also great."

Mugwort can be locally sourced, in addition to the soup medicine is also widely used. First of all, mugwort leaves can be used to wrap the rice directly steamed to eat; second will be put into a bathtub of warm water outside the wash can cure wet sores and scabies, you can prevent the summer long bag, boils, prickly heat, but also very quickly relieve the itchy skin.

Children often use moxa water foot soak, but also to prevent colds; the old man Dantian gas weak, umbilical cord and stomach cold, cooked moxa into a cloth bag to pocket its umbilical cord and abdomen, the role of the wonderful; cold wet feet people also appropriate to clip into the socks; moxa ash is a natural deodorant, with a small cloth bag, put in the toilet, the kitchen or the refrigerator, can play in addition to the effect of the odor can be compared with the bamboo charcoal.

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