Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as medicine, which is warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure in yang, dredging twelve meridians, restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage.

The whole plant of wormwood has the effects of regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold and removing dampness. Treat irregular menstruation, menstrual pain, abdominal pain, abortion, and uterine bleeding, and radically cure rheumatoid arthritis, head wind, and intra-month wind. Because it can cut ice and make it round, and it can cure all diseases, it is the most commonly used medicine for doctors. Modern experimental studies have proved that Artemisia argyi leaves have antibacterial and antiviral effects; Antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; Hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; Sedative and antiallergic effects; Protecting liver and benefiting gallbladder, etc.

Therefore, pregnant women can eat wormwood. Eating wormwood by pregnant women will not only affect the baby in the stomach, but also play a role in stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant expectant mothers eat some wormwood in due course.

How to eat wormwood

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Practice: Folium Artemisiae Argyi 15 g, 20 g of sugar, * * * boiled soup for drinking.

Function: Irritability during menstruation, burning pain in urine, dry mouth and bitter taste, aversion to cold water, constipation, red tongue with yellow coating and weak pulse. It is advisable to clear away heat and promote diuresis, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi cake

Practice: Beat the mugwort leaves in May into pulp, and then make mugwort cakes with glutinous rice flour. The mugwort leaves have a strong fragrance on the taste and a little bitter taste, which leaves a fragrance on the teeth and cheeks after eating. For example, Meng Ling likes the Ai Cake made by her aunt, without sugar, but with brown sugar powder and fried sesame seeds or peanuts.

Function: It has beauty function, is a must-eat snack for Hakka women in confinement, and can also cure colds.

Ai ye shui Gao

Practice: Take appropriate amount of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, sticky rice, glutinous rice and sand sugar. Drying Folium Artemisiae Argyi in the shade, soaking with sticky rice or glutinous rice for 2 hours, and grinding into rice slurry with a beater; Boil sugar and rice slurry to paste, steam in a copper basin for 60 minutes, cool and cut into pieces.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi and garlic soup

Practice: 50 grams of garlic, 20 grams of raw lotus leaves, 20 grams of raw mugwort leaves, 20 grams of raw arborvitae leaves and 20 grams of fresh ground, mix all kinds of materials and mash them together, and take them with water, which can calm the qi and stop bleeding.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi brown sugar water

Practice: 5 pieces of ginger, 5 pieces of jujube, 0/5g of Artemisia argyi/kloc-0, and appropriate amount of brown sugar, decocted in water.

Function: Used for dysmenorrhea.

Steamed mugwort leaves with flour

Practice: Remove the stiff stems and dead leaves from fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi, clean the sediment with clear water, and then mix them evenly according to the ratio of 1 kg Folium Artemisiae Argyi mixed with 250g of flour, so that all Folium Artemisiae Argyi are stained with flour. Then put it in a steamer and steam it for about 30~40 minutes before taking it out of the pot. Steamed Folium Artemisiae Argyi is grayish white and has no strong aromatic medicinal flavor. Put it in a bowl, and mix in spices such as sesame oil, spicy noodles, onions and garlic paste.

Function: appetizing and warming the stomach.

Aiye jiaozi

Practice: 1, 300g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, chopped; Chop onions, bean sprouts and tofu in moderation. 2. Mix the above materials well and season with salt and monosodium glutamate to make stuffing. 3. Fill the dough bag into the shape of jiaozi, steam it in a pot or boil it in water.

Function: Stimulate appetite.

Ai ye Cai Tuan

Practice: Chop the wormwood leaves, put proper amount of flour, knead them into dough with water and salt, make them into a moderate-sized wormwood vegetable ball, and steam them in a pot.

Function: It can "dredge qi and blood, return cold and dampness, stop bleeding and prevent miscarriage". Especially around the Dragon Boat Festival, Artemisia argyi leaves are tender and delicious, and have the effects of appetizing, strengthening the spleen and stimulating appetite.

Boiled eggs with wormwood

"Boiled eggs with wormwood" is one of 60 kinds of medicated diets for gynecological diseases. The main symptoms of treatment are fetal movement restlessness, abdominal cold pain, itchy skin and dysmenorrhea.

Ingredients: 25g of wormwood, 2 eggs, 25g of brown sugar.