Although the weather is warmer in spring, there are more rainy days. As soon as Qingming arrived, the weather was gloomy, the humidity worsened, and the disease came to the door.
As the saying goes: "Clear and clear food moxa, no disaster and no disaster". Therefore, during the Qingming season, in addition to eating "mugwort", you can also use "mugwort".
How to use wormwood
Wormwood can be edible, worn or medicated, and the efficacy of different combinations is also very different:
1. Wormwood feeds
Mugwort leaf is also known as "women's health grass", good at warmth, cold, dehumidification, where women's blood and qi are cold, the most suitable use.
In addition, in spring, the human body yang qi grows, mugwort leaves can also help the human body to rise the yang, resist external evils, and protect the spleen and stomach; In addition, wormwood has a special fragrance that can increase appetite.
2. Mugwort eggs
Ingredients: 10 grams of mugwort leaves, 15 grams of dried ginger, 2 eggs, brown sugar. (Mugwort leaves and dried ginger can be bought at Chinese medicine hospitals or Chinese medicine stores)
Method:
(1) Slice the dried ginger, put it in the pot together with the washed mugwort leaves and eggs, add an appropriate amount of water, and boil the eggs with a simmer first;
(2) Then peel the hard-boiled egg, put it in the pot and cook for 10 minutes, add brown sugar, eat the egg and drink the juice, it is delicious.
Efficacy: Mugwort leaf can warm the blood and warm the meridians, and cure female qi and blood stagnation; Dried ginger can remove the cold of the internal organs and the cold pain of the stomach.
"Boiled egg with ginger ginger" can not only cure common cold dysmenorrhea, but also sweep away many cold symptoms in women's bodies, such as frequent cold intolerance, cold hands and feet, blue lips and tongue, long urine, loose stool, cold stomach, menstrual purple and dark blood clots, etc.
3. Soak your feet with wormwood
Soaking the feet with mugwort leaves can effectively remove the fire in the body and relieve the dark circles caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
In addition, soaking scripts in hot water every day has the effect of promoting blood circulation and driving away dampness and cold in the body, and wormwood can also channel the twelve meridians and regulate yin and yang.
Method: Take a small handful of mugwort leaves, soak your feet or take 1/4 of the moxa strips made of pure mugwort leaves, tear it up and put it in a foot soaking bucket, brew it with boiling water for a while, and then mix it with some warm water to soak your feet after the mugwort leaves soak, soak until the whole body sweats slightly.
Generally, it can be soaked several times in a row, and the effect can be seen after about 2~3 days. At the same time, drink more warm water, do not eat cold food, and pay attention to rest.
After a period of persistence, the dark circles caused by the virtual fire in the body will be significantly improved.
4. Bathe in wormwood
Wormwood bath is not only beneficial to the prevention and treatment of colds, but also has a good auxiliary treatment effect on eczema and folliculitis; In addition, mugwort can promote blood circulation, improve skin metabolism, and have certain cosmetic effects, but the specific situation must be followed by the doctor's advice.
Method: Take 50~100 grams of fresh wormwood, brew it in the bathtub with boiling water for 5~10 minutes, and then take out wormwood and add water to adjust to a suitable water temperature to take a bath.
5. Smoked mugwort
With the gradual increase of rainfall in spring, the humidity is getting worse, and the probability of respiratory diseases is also increasing, and indoor smoked mugwort can play a certain role in prevention and control.
Method: Smoking with moxa sticks for 30 minutes can play a role in disinfecting and sterilizing the room, repelling pests, cleaning the air, and also has a preventive effect on respiratory infectious diseases, and the smell is fragrant, and it has a certain preventive effect on infectious diseases such as chickenpox, mumps, scarlet fever, etc.
It should be reminded that patients with respiratory diseases such as asthma should be cautious with moxa leaf smoke, some sensitive patients may be intolerant to the smell of moxa, will feel that chest tightness is aggravated, cough increases.
6. Wormwood cushion
Fear of cold, fear of wind, like hot drinks, cold diarrhea, this may be a manifestation of cold physique, at this time, you may wish to make yourself a mugwort leaf cushion.
The cushion method was once praised by Wu Shangxian, a famous physician of the Qing Dynasty, who once said in the "Li Yi Qiwen": "If the internal medicine cannot achieve or is afraid of hurting the stomach, it is worrying to sit." ”
Method: Take 500 grams of mugwort leaves, dry and knead them, and wrap them in gauze to make cushions.
7. Moxibustion
Moxibustion therapy is one of the oldest medical techniques in China, lasting thousands of years. Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Ai Ye takes the true fire of the sun, and can return to the yuan yang."
It means: "The fire that lights mugwort is like sunlight, which can uplift and awaken people's vitality and save people's lives." ”
Generally speaking, moxibustion is mainly suitable for cold constitution or pain caused by feeling cold and evil, manifested as insufficient firepower, cold fear, cold hands and feet, easy fatigue, lack of energy, muscle and bone joint pain and stiffness, dysmenorrhea, menstrual delay, etc.
For people with yin deficiency constitution, it is manifested as dry mouth, short urine, dry stool, hot flashes, night sweats, five upset heat, red tongue and less moss, etc., Shi Ai is equivalent to adding fuel to the fire, but hurting the body.
When moxibustion, you can moxibustion according to the time, such as about 10 minutes; Or according to the local manifestations of the patient, on the basis of red skin, the surrounding redness is red, such an amount is enough.
Wormwood use caution
1. Real heat physique
People with warm wormwood and real heat symptoms such as eye fire, mouth and tongue sores, heavy breath, and dry stools are not recommended to use a large amount of wormwood.
2. It should not be used excessively
Excessive use of wormwood will deplete the yang in the human body, aggravate the weakness, not only can not play a health care role, but will reduce immunity and bring diseases.
3. Children and women during menstruation
Some children, eating wormwood is easy to produce allergic symptoms, should pay special attention; Women in the menstrual period are also not recommended to consume wormwood, too much dosage may lead to menstrual abnormalities.