1, antiasthmatic

Wormwood has the function of relieving asthma. Experiments show that the extract of wormwood can relax the bronchi of guinea pigs, stop cough and relieve asthma, and has certain curative effect on treating colds.

Step 2 stop itching and ward off evil spirits

Wormwood can relieve itching and ward off evil spirits. Bathing with wormwood has the effects of disinfection, itching relief and mosquito prevention. During the Dragon Boat Festival, you can also put wormwood at home to ward off evil spirits and put it with other herbs to prevent the five poisons.

3. Promoting blood circulation and dispelling cold

Wormwood has the functions of promoting qi and blood circulation, dispelling cold and warming uterus. Taking a bath with wormwood boiling water can help you sleep, warm channels, drive away cold and dampness, and it is widely used in life.

4, cholagogic

Folium Artemisiae Argyi oil also has obvious cholagogic effect on mice, which increases their bile flow by 26%, so Folium Artemisiae Argyi has certain cholagogic effect.

Step 5 stop bleeding

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effects of regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage and stopping collapse. Wormwood can also treat gynecological diseases such as metrorrhagia, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, girlish weakness, asthenic cold, anemia, etc. In the folk formula, there are also instructions for mashing wormwood to stop bleeding and disinfect.

6. Uterine contraction

Wormwood has the function of contracting uterus. The experiment shows that Yeai decoction can excite rabbit uterus in vitro and produce tension contraction. The crude extract also has obvious exciting effect on isolated guinea pig uterus.

7. Enhance resistance

Wormwood can enhance the body's resistance to diseases. People usually make wormwood into a series of delicacies such as wormwood soup, wormwood porridge, wormwood tea and so on.

8, antibacterial, antiviral

Wormwood can resist viruses and germs. Smoked wormwood has bacteriostatic effect on some harmful fungi. The soaking and decoction of wormwood also have certain inhibitory effects on a variety of pathogenic fungi in vitro.

9. Fight cancer

Wormwood has anticancer effect. The selenium content in wormwood is very high, which is 10 times higher than that of aloe. So it has anti-tumor and anti-aging effects.

10, drive away mosquitoes

Wormwood has a special taste and can repel mosquitoes, so the ancients often put wormwood at the door to repel mosquitoes and ward off evil spirits.