Mugwort leaves are easy to harvest in the wild clumps, and the folk have used mugwort leaves since ancient times? to drive away evil spirits and avoid the plague? The saying that. Even in modern times, people still retain the tradition of hanging mugwort in front of their doors to pray for the health of their families and to keep them away from the plague.
Mugwort also plays an important role in traditional Chinese medicine, and today's popular moxibustion and moxa smoking all require the use of mugwort as a good medicine.
In the eyes of the ancients, mugwort is an excellent medicine for warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain. Li Shizhen in his "Compendium of Materia Medica" said that the effect of mugwort has three,? Warming the middle, dispelling cold, and removing dampness? .
And the traditional Chinese medicine text, The Treatise on the Nature of Medicines, also says that mugwort is best able to ? stop avulsions of blood, stop abdominal cold pain? ; in addition, in the "Materia Medica Jing Jiezhu" is also mentioned that mugwort leaves have the ability to ? It's a good idea to use it as an anthelmintic for ringworms. effect, can play in addition to eczema, stop itching and pain.
Through thousands of years of ancient people continue to summarize, the efficacy and application of mugwort has been gradually perfected, and today, people from the development of mugwort to the well known moxibustion, it can be said that the application of mugwort leaves to the fullest.
In the eyes of the ancients, mugwort is a common herb used in women's medicine, because mugwort leaves ? taste pungent and can dissipate the cold in the body, warm and can warm the stagnation of qi and blood? , has a better effect on the relief of female diseases.
"Materia Medica Zheng" recorded that mugwort leaves have ? Through the human body twelve meridians? The function, and can line the blood in the gas, gas in the stagnation, for women's common due to cold, blood stasis gas stagnation caused by menstrual pain, epigastric and abdominal cold and pain in the syndrome has a very good effect. At the same time, moxa also has a certain warm menstruation blood effect, for some women's common menstrual blood, irregular menstruation, etc. also has a good improvement effect.
And the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also special focus on the mention, Ai Ye stop? The function of cold pain in the heart and abdomen and less abdomen is especially good? , for? Women's diseases, quite a deep work? It can be seen in some of the common female illnesses, there are really some unique features.
Ai leaves after thousands of years of application, now in the moxibustion technology has been quite mature, I believe that many people in the life of the charm of moxibustion is also felt.
Moxibustion is a combination of herbal medicine and acupuncture methods, with moxa leaves made into moxa sticks or pillars, which are smoked inside designated points on the human body. This can effectively introduce the warm and pungent nature of moxa leaves into the meridians, warm and hot qi through the skin acupuncture points and the internal fluid body, thus playing a role in warming the meridians, regulating the meridians, blood and qi.
The effect of moxibustion is quite extensive, and both men and women can be applied. Especially for some of the body cold, the meridian, qi and blood stagnation of the crowd, when the use of drugs is difficult to relieve the time, through the moxibustion can often play a very good effect.
In our daily life we can also use moxa to play the role of disinfection, moxa leaves inside the composition of a very good antibacterial effect, will be smoked indoors, not only can let a person calm and tranquility, but also effectively inhibit the spread of germs in the air, it can be said to be a two-in-one solution.