Many people do not know what mugwort is. In fact, mugwort, also known as Artemisia absinthium, fragrant mugwort. It is a perennial herb or slightly into a semi shrubby plant, the plant has a strong aroma. The main root is obvious, slightly thick and long, up to 1.5 centimeters in diameter, with many lateral roots; there are often horizontal underground rhizomes and nutritive branches. The fine leaves have some special fragrance.

People in every year's Dragon Boat Festival, families will put the wormwood together with calamus and hu garlic hung on the door, can drive away evil spirits, to ward off evil spirits. When I was a child in my hometown, early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, my mother would pick some mugwort back, and then find some good-looking old cloth at home, put the leaves of the mugwort in it, and sewed all kinds of good-looking shapes with a needle and thread, and wore them on her chest, the aroma of the nose. My mother said that the scented bag symbolizes the fragrance of birds and flowers, all the best, the love of husband and wife, and the harmony of the family.

Wormwood can be washed hair, feet

Wormwood is also a very powerful antifungal drugs, seborrheic patients if you wash your hair with wormwood, such as excessive secretion of oil, itchy head and other such conditions can be removed, washed hair wash natural, anti-hair loss effect is particularly obvious. Long-term wash, you can accelerate the blood circulation of the head, the effect of certain hair growth. Ai Ye foot soak has a cold effect, every day with hot water soak feet to have to promote blood circulation to drive away the effectiveness of the body of wet and cold, not to mention the Ai Ye can pass the twelve meridians, regulating yin and yang. Meridians smooth people, blood will follow the dredging, and blood healthy people, the body cold natural nowhere to stay.

Mugwort can also be drunk

Boiling water with fresh mugwort and drinking it directly can enhance the resistance to disease, but also to dispel dampness and cold. Women with menstrual cramps can drink water boiled with mugwort, which is very helpful for improving cold body.