Effects and functions: regulating qi and blood, expel cold and dampness; warming menstruation, stopping bleeding, and stabilizing the fetus. The treatment of cold pain in the heart and abdomen, diarrhea and cramps, long diarrhea, epistaxis, hemorrhage, menstrual disorders, leakage, subluxation, fetal restlessness, carbuncle ulcers, scabies.

In the traditional food of southern China, there is a kind of patty cake which is made of mugwort as the main ingredient. The whole herb has the effect of regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, stopping avalanches, dispersing cold and removing dampness. Treatment of menstrual disorders, menstrual pain, abdominal pain, miscarriage, uterine bleeding, the root of rheumatoid arthritis, head wind, wind in the month. Because it can cut ice to make round, and can be scorched for all diseases, for the most commonly used medicine.

Features of mugwort dumplings:

Mugwort dumplings are traditional snacks, usually eaten at the Qingming Festival. Mugwort can be considered a common ingredient on the table of Hakka people. Every spring, clumps of mugwort grow in the fields and along the water's edge, with green leaves hovering upwards like pagodas which are very lovely.

Then the Hakka women would take the children to pick them down, go home and steam the round-grained rice or glutinous rice and mix it with mugwort leaves to pound it into rice paste, wrap some peanuts or sesame filling in the middle, and put it into a small green poop and steam it in a pot, and it became the very famous Hakka cuisine of mugwort dumplings.

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