Does aged Artemisia annua still have efficacy?

There is a folk saying about Artemisia annua: "Artemisia annua in March, grass in April, and firewood in May." In other words, the picking period of Artemisia ordosica is very short. After March, Artemisia ordosica has grown into elderberry, which is inedible and has lost its efficacy.

As the saying goes, March, April and May are the lunar calendar. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is the beginning of April (April, Friday and Saturday) in the solar calendar, and it is usually the beginning of March in the lunar calendar.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is nearly a month away from April of the lunar calendar, so you can eat mugwort leaves after Tomb-Sweeping Day for about a month.

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1, the essential value of Artemisia annua

Artemisia annua has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis; The effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, long-term administration of the combination of intelligence, benefiting qi and resisting aging, white face for many years. It can also treat diseases such as rheumatism, cold and heat, and heat jaundice. Treat yellow body, dysuria, head fever, abdominal cavity, joint dredging, blood stasis and fever, typhoid fever, etc.

2. Edible value of Artemisia annua.

The tender stems and leaves of Artemisia annua are edible.