Rural elderly people like to use mugwort leaves to make pillows. What are the benefits of mugwort leaf pillows?

Mugwort is no stranger to rural people. It is widely distributed in rural areas. In rural areas, people who grow in places with mugwort generally know that mugwort is a natural green antibacterial and antiviral plant, which itself emits a special musky scent.

It is recorded in the ancient medical book "Compendium of Materia Medica": The leaves of moxa moxa are used as medicine. Its taste is pungent, bitter, and warm in nature. It can warm menstruation and stop bleeding, and sterilize and disinfect. According to modern Chinese medicine, moxa leaf is an important drug for warming the menstruation and stopping bleeding. Its main functions are to warm the menstruation and prevent miscarriage, dispel cold and regulate menstruation, strengthen the brain and improve eyesight, soothe the nerves and promote sleep.

Mugwort can be used to treat various cold-damp pains. Its functions of warming menstruation and relieving pain, anti-inflammatory and sterilizing, soothing the nerves and promoting sleep have been widely used by people. It is said that the wormwood collected on the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is the most valuable, so we rural people will use sickles to cut some wormwood and take it home to dry in the sun for use in the coming year. Aged wormwood The special "aromatic" smell is stronger than that of new mugwort. There is an old saying among the people that "if a family has mugwort for three years, diseases will not come back." It can be seen that old mugwort has a good therapeutic effect on diseases.

A small pillow made by a farmer’s sister-in-law with mugwort leaves

Although mugwort has medicinal effects, its value can only be realized after it is used as medicine. Among the people, people just use it as a medicine. Boil water for soaking and moistening to relieve pain in certain parts of the body, or use mugwort leaves to make pillows for sleeping on.

Use mugwort leaves as the filling of pillow cores, and use it as a pillow to sleep. It not only has the effect of calming the nerves and promoting sleep, but also relieves the pain of cervical spondylosis! A farmer's wife has been suffering from cervical spondylosis for many years. Various methods have been tried, but nothing works. When it is severe, she can't sleep all night. Later, she went to an old Chinese medicine doctor in my village to ask if she could have any folk remedies to relieve the pain. For pain in the cervical spine, an old Chinese medicine doctor said that you can use mugwort leaves as a pillow core to try sleeping at night. mugwort has the effect of warming the meridians and dredging the blood collaterals, and has a good effect on relieving the cervical spine. Don’t tell me that I did it myself. After using this small moxa leaf headrest, it really worked, and my cervical spine problems were greatly relieved. The special smell of mugwort has a repelling effect on mosquitoes in summer. Putting two pillow fillings made of mugwort leaves on the kang can also inhibit the growth of mites in the bedding. A small pillow has many functions! The little pillow in the picture was sewn stitch by stitch by myself.

Picture of a small pillow made by a farmer's wife

An old Chinese doctor said that mugwort can not only be used as a pillow core, but can also be made into seat and back cushions. Mugwort has the effect of warming menstruation, dispersing cold and relieving pain. Mats made of mugwort filler can relieve women's abdominal pain caused by poor menstrual blood during menstruation, or postpartum cold and abdominal pain. It can also treat certain gynecological diseases. The itching caused by the disease has a bactericidal effect.

Not only can mugwort be used after the plant reaches adulthood, it can also become our delicacy in its childhood. When fresh and tender, mugwort can be made into different kinds of delicacies: mugwort green dumplings, mugwort leaf fried rice, mugwort leaf fried rice, mugwort mugwort green dumplings, mugwort leaf fried rice Boiled eggs, mugwort dumplings, etc. are all very good health foods. Now is the season when mugwort is fresh and tender, so it’s the right time to pick it, so you might as well give it a try!

During the Qingming Festival, the mugwort leaves begin to sprout and grow. In a month or two, it will be time to pick the mugwort leaves. In rural areas, the elderly can make full use of the mugwort leaves.

Our aunt suffered from menopausal syndrome a few years ago. She frowned every day and looked sad. No one in the family dared to talk to her. She became annoyed when she talked. She was so annoyed that her sleep quality was even worse. The difference is terrible. I can't sleep at night and I don't feel sleepy during the day. I suddenly look old and vicissitudes of life, which makes people feel distressed.

Later, my aunt’s daughter went everywhere to look for home remedies for her, and she actually found it. It happened to be when the mugwort leaves were growing vigorously. That day, my aunt’s daughter drove several of us, and we all went to the mountains to pick mugwort leaves. Got two big bags.

The mugwort leaves brought back home were dried in the sun. My aunt and daughter made a pillow with the mugwort leaves, and let her sleep on the mugwort leaves pillow. The rest of the mugwort leaves were used by my aunt to soak her feet. My daughter boiled the mugwort leaf water herself. I supervised my aunt's foot soaking and bought moxa sticks. After soaking her feet, I used moxa sticks to moxibustion my aunt's body.

After persisting like this for a month, my aunt's body has obviously changed. Her frown has been relieved, and her face has the same smile as before. She can fall asleep at night, although she doesn't get enough sleep. Eight hours, but I was able to sleep for five or six o'clock. My aunt also felt that she was in good spirits. Her complexion improved, and she became more dependent on moxa leaves. She had to do moxa leaf foot soaks and moxa stick moxibustion every night, and the moxa leaf pillow became a perfect got her baby.

Mugwort leaves can not only treat insomnia as a pillow, but its special aroma can also repel mosquitoes, making it suitable for most people. However, this stuff is cold in nature and is not suitable for everyone, let alone long-term use. It is best not to use it for menstruating women and children. Long-term use will cause cold evil to invade the body and is not good for your health.

People with insomnia can try using mugwort leaf pillows. Maybe it will be effective. The best time to pick mugwort leaves is around the Dragon Boat Festival, when the mugwort leaves have the best medicinal value.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the fields and roadsides in rural areas are full of lush mugwort. Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to health care and are more aware of some of the properties of mugwort. Therefore, rural people will take advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival to During this period, I went to the mountains to cut mugwort and brought it home. I put it in front of my house to dry for a few days until the leaves withered, and then moved it to a cool place to dry. Last year during the Dragon Boat Festival, I went to the mountains to cut some mugwort and brought it home. When it was half dry, my father neatly cut it to a length of about ten centimeters, ready to dry it and put it away for later use. But then I heard from a Chinese medicine friend that although the whole body of mugwort can be used as medicine, the mugwort here in Shandong does not have much effect, and the roots and stems have very little medicinal effect. So Dad removed all the mugwort stems, leaving only the mugwort leaves.

Last winter, I often used moxa leaves to soak my feet. Foot soaking with moxa leaves has many effects on the body. For example, some women who have cold hands and feet and numb limbs in winter can use moxa leaves to soak their feet. First put mugwort leaves in a basin, pour hot water directly on them, and when the water temperature is right, put your feet in the water and soak them, which can dredge the muscles and collaterals. However, it is not necessary to soak mugwort leaves every day, just soak once every three to five days.

I have always been unable to sleep well. Sometimes I can't sleep all night, which leads to neurasthenia. I heard that moxa leaf pillows have a certain effect on people's sleep. After sunbathing so much moxa leaves, why not make use of it. So I found two pieces of cotton, one large and one small, and simply sewed two pillows. Why sew two? One is to put it under your head at night and fall asleep smelling the fragrance of moxa. After sleeping on it for a while, I don’t know if it is really the moxa leaves that have played a role. Anyway, I slept longer. The other is a small pillow for family members. If anyone has cervical spine discomfort, you can place it under your neck as a pillow to relieve the discomfort in the cervical spine.

Moxa leaf pillows have many uses. They can dredge cerebral blood vessels and prevent cerebral thrombosis. One of the reasons why I like mugwort pillows is that compared with ordinary pillows, it has the function of disinfection and sterilization. You don’t have to worry about mites on the pillow. You can rest assured and smell the very nice fragrance of mugwort. Putting a moxa leaf pillow in the bedroom in summer can reduce mosquito bites, which is much better than those unpleasant aerosol sprays.

I would like to remind everyone that people with physical weakness should use moxa pillow less, because moxa leaves themselves have medicinal properties and can easily interfere with the circulation of qi and blood in the body. Even healthy people are not suitable to use moxa leaf pillows for a long time, and women need to pay more attention to their menstrual periods.

From last night to now, the light rain in March has been falling all day and all night. For the rural people in Yantai area, this is really a blessing from heaven! In a few days, the mugwort in the field will sprout and grow like joints in response to the moisture of the rainy season. When the mugwort is young, no more than an inch long, you can pick it at home and pound it to extract the juice and make green dumplings to eat. When mugwort grows up to May, its positive energy is strongest. This is the season when mugwort has the greatest effect, and it has many uses.

Chronic cholecystitis can be caused by the sun. After the hospital examination, I prescribed a lot of medicine, but no obvious effect was seen after taking it for a long time. Later, I met an old Chinese medicine doctor by chance and said that you can try moxibustion. Under his guidance, I purchased an 8-centimeter thick moxa stick online to moxibustion the relevant acupuncture points that are symptomatic of cholecystitis. After lighting the moxa stick, the warm feeling penetrates the skin and reaches the affected area. It is so comfortable! After a winter of moxibustion, cholecystitis has not reoccurred. The wild mugwort grassland in the countryside was so good that Yan Yang was deeply obsessed with moxa-moxibustion and health care from then on.

My aunt’s second sister suffers from migraines. The old Chinese medicine doctor also recommended a folk remedy to her, which is to use mugwort as a pillow to sleep on. Unexpectedly, after using it for a year, my second sister rarely had migraines! Wormwood works so miraculously! This surprised my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law often has itchy skin. I heard that mugwort pillows can also remove eczema and moisturize dryness. He said he would also get some mugwort to make a pillow next year.

In the second year, Yan Yang deliberately returned to his hometown before May Day, and went to the countryside with his mother-in-law to collect the most abundant mugwort in the countryside to make pillows and cushions. It takes more than one year of wormwood to make mugwort pillows. Mugwort that has been stored for three years is better and has better effects! There are two types of mugwort in rural areas: wild mugwort and domestic mugwort. The volatile oil of wild mugwort is relatively large and has a strong smell. It is best for making moxibustion sticks, filling pillows and cushions. The leaves of domestic mugwort are wide and sparse, and are generally used to make green dumplings. It has the effect of warming the body and dispersing cold.

We put on gloves and pushed the cart. Use a sickle to cut a large piece of mugwort outside and bring it back in a cart, then use the opportunity to pull off the leaves with gloves and keep only the leaves. Throw away the pole, keep only the leaves, and spread them on the bungalow to tumble and dry in the shade. Then put the pure cotton pillow core and store the mugwort for three years to make yellow plush. It is very effective in warming yang, calming sleep, removing dryness and dampness, and treating headaches.

The cushion I made with mugwort can warm the stomach, regulate the middle, warm menstruation, and dispel cold when sitting on it!

Don’t miss this year’s Dragon Boat Festival. Friends who are interested must collect some to try!

Rural elderly people like to use moxa leaves to make pillows. What are the benefits of moxa leaf pillows? Mugwort is a kind of herbal medicine with many uses. My grandma used to put some in the pillowcase and sleep on it. I have also slept on such a pillow. Here is my opinion:

Mugwort It is known as a medical herb, and the leaves are generally used as medicine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Mugwort leaves are bitter and pungent, produce warmth, and are hot when cooked. They have pure yang properties, can return the dying yang, open the twelve meridians, and travel through the three Yin regulates qi and blood, drives away cold and dampness, and warms the uterus... Using moxibustion fire can penetrate the meridians and eliminate all diseases." It is not surprising that rural elderly people like to use mugwort leaves to make pillows. Elderly people of a certain age have poor sleep quality. Not good enough. Even though I go to bed early, it is not easy to fall asleep. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night. Mugwort leaves are leaves of mugwort and have a special fragrance. Clean and dry the picked mugwort leaves and put them in a pillowcase to sleep with. It helps to sleep more soundly; and some elderly people sweat on their necks while sleeping and easily wet their pillow towels. Mugwort has an anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effect, so it is better to use than cotton pillow cores.

There are also certain skills in picking mugwort leaves. The mugwort leaves we pick for use are usually picked during the Dragon Boat Festival. They are usually picked and eaten in spring, because people think that the Dragon Boat Festival has strong yang energy. It is the day of the year when vegetation has the strongest medicinal properties. Moreover, it is midsummer and the mugwort leaves are growing very luxuriantly, making it especially suitable for picking.

The fresh mugwort leaves picked can be cooked as vegetables or made into mugwort cakes. You can also boil water for bathing and foot soaking. In rural areas like our hometown, we usually boil water for bathing; of course , some dried moxa leaves will also be left, and the dried mugwort leaves can be placed in pillowcases for sleeping, or placed in cloth shoes/sneakers to sterilize and deodorize.

In fact, moxa leaf pillows can be used not only by the elderly, but also by children and adults. For example, children with poor immunity and prone to colds, coughs and stuffy noses can use moxa leaf pillows for children to sleep more securely. , the cough is relieved; and for example, mothers who have just given birth are relatively weak, have a lot of moisture in their body, are afraid of the cold, and sweat easily. In addition to sleeping on moxa leaf pillows, you can also use moxa leaves to boil water for bathing and foot soaking.

Of course, although mugwort has various benefits, it is generally older people who are more comfortable using it now, such as rural side dishes. When I was a child, my mother also made mugwort pillows for me to use. However, I no longer need it when I grow up, and I have less contact with it in daily life. I often eat hot pot during the Spring Festival, and boil water for bathing during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Mugwort is warm in nature and bitter in taste.

The whole plant is used as medicine and has the effects of warming menstruation, removing dampness, dispersing cold, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory, relieving asthma, relieving cough, anti-fetal, and anti-allergic effects.

Mugwort leaves can be used as pillows to treat insomnia. Its special aroma can also repel mosquitoes and is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. It is suitable for most people. However, mugwort is warm in nature and is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire.

Mugwort can be used to treat various cold-damp pains. Its functions of warming menstruation and relieving pain, anti-inflammatory and sterilizing, soothing the nerves and promoting sleep have been widely used by people. It is said that the wormwood collected on the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is the most valuable, so we rural people will use sickles to cut some wormwood and take it home to dry in the sun for use in the coming year. Aged wormwood The special "aromatic" smell is stronger than that of new mugwort. There is an old saying among the people that "if a family has mugwort for three years, diseases will not come back." It can be seen that old mugwort has a good therapeutic effect on diseases.