What are the effects and functions of mugwort soup?

Mugwort is a plant that we often come into contact with in our daily life. This plant has many benefits to the human body. Whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, people will use mugwort to set off the festive atmosphere. Mugwort can enhance the body's resistance, relieve pain, and improve symptoms such as excessive menstruation in women. Mugwort can be made into soup and is easier to digest. What are the effects and functions of mugwort soup? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What are the effects and functions of mugwort soup?

1. Mugwort is bitter, dry and pungent. It can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, and relieve cold pain. It is an important medicine for gynecology. It is used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, irregular menstruation due to cold uterus, infertility, etc. Stir-fried charcoal can stop bleeding and can be used to treat excessive menstruation due to deficiency and cold, metrorrhagia, and fetal leakage during pregnancy, such as Jiao Ai Decoction. This product can be pounded into moxa sticks and moxa cones. External moxibustion can dispel cold, relieve pain, and warm Qi and blood. The decoction can be used for external washing to treat eczema, scabies, and eczema, and to relieve itching.

2. Mugwort has been used to prevent plague for thousands of years. Chinese herbal medicine can be obtained locally, and modern medical pharmacological research has shown that mugwort is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug. It has inhibitory and killing effects on many viruses and bacteria, and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases. Mugwort smoke fumigation is a simple and easy method of epidemic prevention.

3. Mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and anti-allergic effects; liver protecting and choleretic effects, etc. Mugwort can be used to make recipes such as "mugwort tea", "mugwort soup", and "mugwort porridge" to enhance the body's resistance to disease.

4. Mugwort has a special fragrance, which has the effect of repelling mosquitoes. Therefore, the ancients often hung mugwort in front of their doors, one to ward off evil spirits, and the other to drive away mosquitoes.

2. The effect of mugwort soup

Mugwort is a versatile plant. It has the following functions:

1. Its greening effect on the home is unquestionable. Mugwort has a relatively large area, and because the stomata on each leaf release more oxygen, it does not slack off when playing the role of the lungs of the family.

2. It has good medicinal value. For the common diseases of the family, it can play a very good therapeutic role - antibacterial effect. In vitro, mugwort has antibacterial effects on 10 Gram-positive aerophilic bacteria, including anthrax bacteria, α-hemolytic streptococci, β-hemolytic streptococci, diphtheria bacteria, pseudodiphtheria bacteria, Pneumococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, and Bacillus subtilis. Mugwort oil has antibacterial effects on Pneumococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, Streptococcus A, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, and Shigella flexneri.

3. Mugwort has the effect of exorcising evil spirits. Artemisia, also known as Artemisia selengensis and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. The unique fragrance it produces can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. In traditional Chinese medicine, mugwort is used as a medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus, and removing cold and dampness. Processing mugwort leaves into "mogwort wool" is an important medicinal material for treating diseases with moxibustion.

3. Old hen mugwort soup

Ingredients

70 grams of dried mugwort, 1 old hen weighing about 1500 grams, appropriate amount of fine salt, and 10 grams of ginger.

practice:

1. Bleed the old hen, pluck the feathers, remove the internal organs, then wash and cut into large pieces.

2. Wash the ginger (do not peel it) and flatten it.

3. Wash the clay pot, put in the old hen, mugwort stems, ginger and add clean water.

4. Bring to a boil over high heat first, cook for about 5 minutes, then switch to low heat and cook until the water starts to boil. Cook for about 1.5 to 2 hours.

5. Add appropriate amount of refined salt and then drink.