There is a saying in our countryside that says, "If you have three years of mugwort, you don't have to use it." This means that if someone in your family is suffering from a minor illness, you don't have to go to the doctor at all! The meaning of this saying is: if someone in the family suffers from a disease that is not serious, there is no need to find a doctor to see a doctor, as long as there is enough mugwort in the family, it can be completely cured. The efficacy of wormwood is really so powerful? Let's take a look now!

Medicinal value:

Mugwort and the Chinese life has a close relationship, every Dragon Boat Festival, people always will be placed in the home in order to "avoid the evil spirits", after the drying of the plant soak fumigation in order to disinfect the itch, the mother of more than one bath or fumigation with mugwort water.

The whole herb is used as medicine to warm the menstruation, dispel dampness, disperse cold, stop bleeding, anti-inflammatory, asthma, cough, tranquilize the fetus, anti-allergy and other effects. Throughout the ages medical records for "stop bleeding medicine", and is one of the common gynecological drugs, treatment of cold gynecological disorders is particularly good, and treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma in the elderly, boiled water bath can be prevented and treated puerperium mother and child infections, or pharmaceutical pillows, pharmaceutical undershirts, prevention and treatment of old-age chronic bronchitis or asthma and chilled stomach pains, etc.; moxa leaves dried and pounded to get "Ai velvet", moxa sticks for moxibustion, and can be used as raw materials for "seal mud". In addition, the whole grass for insecticidal pesticides or fumigation smoke for room disinfection, insecticidal drugs.

Mugwort 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. Modern experimental research has proved that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; asthma, cough and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and antiallergic effects; hepatoprotective and choleretic effects.

Edible value:

Mugwort is also a good food, in the traditional food of southern China, there is a kind of patty cake is made with mugwort as the main ingredient (see mochi). That is, it is made with fresh mugwort and glutinous rice flour in the ratio of one to two before and after the Qingming Festival, wrapped with fillings such as peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar (in some areas, mung bean paste will be added), and then steamed. In the Dongjiang Valley of Guangdong Province, locals pick fresh mugwort leaves and buds in winter and spring to eat as a vegetable.