What is wormwood?

Folium Artemisiae Argyi, a perennial herb of Artemisia in Compositae, has a strong fragrance.

Wormwood has the effect of eliminating dampness and dispelling cold.

Usage:

If the elderly feel cold abdominal pain or umbilical pain, they can put the cooked moxa stick into a cloth bag and apply it to the navel.

For cold-dampness diarrhea, dry ginger can be used for decoction.

Soaking feet with wormwood can warm the lungs: take 30 ~ 50 grams of dried wormwood and boil water to soak feet. Pay attention to wormwood when soaking feet. At the same time, drink more warm water, eat less cold food and pay attention to rest.

Wormwood can improve immunity.

Moxibustion therapy takes moxa as the main material, fumigates and bakes the meridians, acupoints or diseased parts of the human body, and warms the human body with the heat of moxibustion fire, thus stimulating menstruation and ventilation.

The main material of moxibustion therapy is wormwood, which is processed from wormwood leaves. Folium Artemisiae Argyi, which grows in the sunny place in the wild in May, is selected, dried and stored indoors for 1 year, which is called aged mature Folium Artemisiae Argyi. Removing impurities and thick stems from aged and cooked Artemisia argyi, pulverizing, sieving, removing dandruff, and rolling white silk into velvet. You can also fully dry the new leaves of Artemisia argyi in that year and knead them several times until they are cotton-like.

The denser the moxa, the better. According to needs, mugwort can be made into three types: thumb size, broad bean size and wheat size, which are called big, medium and small moxa mugwort respectively.

Squeeze a proper amount of moxa sticks into strips with both hands, which are moderate in hardness and convenient for charcoal burning, then put them on mulberry paper or cotton paper with a width of about 5.5 cm and a length of about 25 cm, and roll them into a cylindrical shape. Finally, bond the paper edges with batter, and compact the paper ends at both ends to make a roll of moxa sticks with a length of about 20 cm and a diameter of about 1.5 cm.

The oil extracted from Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be used as raw materials for various perfumes and cosmetics. Cosmetics made from Artemisia argyi raw materials have no side effects on human body, make people's skin smooth and tender, and have the effect of delaying aging. Artemisia argyi has a strong fragrance, and the volatile oil of Artemisia argyi has a strong insecticidal and bactericidal effect. It is a pure natural and cheap pesticide, and can also be used in animal feed, health care products, perfumes, adjusting fresheners and so on.

biological pesticide

The raw materials extracted from Artemisia argyi can be used for the development of biological pesticides. Studies have shown that Artemisia argyi extract extracted with different solvent amounts can control crop pests such as aphids, LEPIDOPTERA larvae and cinnabar leafhoppers. Using Artemisia argyi resources to develop plant pesticides is a "green pesticide" with low toxicity, high efficiency, high selectivity and low residue, and Artemisia argyi has become one of the first choices of pure green pesticides. With the listing of organic vegetables, biological pesticides have replaced chemical pesticides. Most botanical pesticides have the characteristics of high selectivity, high efficiency, low toxicity, low residue and safety. In addition, mugwort is easy to grow, with high yield and low price. Therefore, the medicinal development and application prospect of Artemisia argyi is very broad.