What is wormwood? Can wormwood be eaten?

What is the moxa leaf guide? Many people can't tell wormwood from mugwort. Are they the same thing? What exactly is wormwood? Let's tell you what mugwort is. Can I eat mugwort?

What is wormwood?

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is more common in southern China. Of all Chinese herbal medicines, Artemisia argyi leaves are magical. Whether it is fresh or dry, it is a good medicine for health care and treatment. It has the functions of regulating qi and blood, dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels to stop bleeding, inhibiting bacteria and killing bacteria, and relieving cough and asthma.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is common in the Dragon Boat Festival, which should be said to be a custom. Hanging mugwort leaves on the door means "ward off evil spirits".

In fact, hanging wormwood on the door can really play the role of expelling insects, and to some extent, it can be regarded as ward off evil spirits.

In fact, we don't have to wait until the Dragon Boat Festival to use wormwood. We can also use wormwood to regulate the body and play a role in health care.

Can wormwood be eaten?

I. Youth League

Ingredients: glutinous rice flour, wheat starch, wormwood, bean paste stuffing, salt and oil.

Practice: 1, wash the wormwood, blanch it in boiling water, then take it out and drain it in cold water.

2. Put the wormwood into a cooking machine and break it, and pour it into glutinous rice flour mixed with wheat starch.

3. Add a small amount of water, knead glutinous rice flour into dough, then tear a few balls and put them in water to cook.

4. Put the cooked dough into the big dough and continue to knead until it is thick and divided into small portions.

5. Wrap a portion of dough and a portion of bean paste, put it in a steamer covered with wormwood, and steam for 5 minutes.

Comments: It tastes a little sticky, but it is not sticky, sweet or greasy. It has the fresh aroma of wormwood, delicious and nutritious.

Second, wormwood leaves boiled eggs

Ingredients: wormwood, brown sugar and eggs.

Practice: 1. Boil wormwood in cold water, then turn to low heat 15-20 minutes.

2. Then take out the wormwood, beat in 1-2 eggs, and add brown sugar when the eggs are almost ripe.

Comments: A method of egg flower soup is very suitable for women with palace cold syndrome.

Third, mugwort and barley porridge

Ingredients: wormwood, eggs, coix seed, pepper, salt.

Practice: 1, Coix seed with water to cook porridge.

2. Cook wormwood and eggs until the eggs are cooked.

3. Take wormwood soup and put it in barley porridge.

4, the eggs are shelled, and the pepper and salt are sent to porridge.

Comments: It can treat dysmenorrhea, chills and loose stool.

What disease can Artemisia argyi treat?

1. Treat irregular menstruation and infertility. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in China, has two prescriptions about wormwood, namely Jiao Yi Tang and Bai Ye Decoction. Jiaoai decoction has the function of warming uterus and can treat irregular menstruation and infertility caused by palace cold. Bai Ye decoction can be used to treat gynecological bleeding.

2. Treat all kinds of inflammation. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has a good therapeutic effect on chronic bronchitis, asthma, chills in limbs, pale mouth and dry tongue. For example, chronic bronchitis can be taken orally with wormwood oil capsules or boiled with fresh wormwood.

3. Treat facial paralysis. Moxibustion I believe that many people have heard that moxibustion can treat facial paralysis, mouth and eyes askew and so on. Folium Artemisiae Argyi can also be used for preventing and treating headache, backache, hematochezia, fetal restlessness, infantile diarrhea, and cold pain in the spleen and stomach.