Is the smell of mugwort harmful to the body?

Mugwort is a very common plant. It is a traditional Chinese medicine that has many benefits for the human body. The water soaked with mugwort can be used for bathing, and mugwort can also be made into food. Mugwort can relieve cold pain, improve female uterine coldness, and can also be fried into charcoal to stop bleeding. The taste of mugwort is quite unique. Many people worry that the unique taste of mugwort will be harmful to the body. Is the taste of mugwort harmful to the body? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Is the smell of mugwort harmful to the body?

Mugwort has the original flavor of the plant and does not contain any toxic ingredients, so it is harmless to the human body.

2. Effects and functions of mugwort

1. Regulate Qi and Blood

Mugwort is bitter, dry and pungent in nature. 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, uterine cold and infertility, such as Ai Fu Nuan Gong Pills. Stir-fried charcoal can stop bleeding and can be used to treat excessive menstruation due to deficiency and cold, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and fetal bleeding 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. Treat bronchitis.

You can use mugwort oil capsules, 2 capsules each time, 3 times a day, 10 days as a course of treatment, can be taken for 2-4 courses in a row, it has a good effect on chronic bronchitis cough, asthma. You can also use 1000g of fresh mugwort leaves, wash and chop them, soak them in 4000ml of water for 4-6 hours, decoct and filter them, and concentrate them to about 3000ml. Take 40 ml each time, 3 times a day. It can effectively relieve symptoms of chronic bronchitis such as sputum, asthma, cold limbs and pale tongue.

3. Treat irregular menstruation

Take 10g each of Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica sinensis, Poria cocos, stir-fried jujube seeds, longan pulp, and cuttlefish bones, 6g each of Polygala tenuifolia, licorice, costusroot, mugwort charcoal, and palm charcoal, 15g of Astragalus membranaceus, 3g of ginseng, 3 slices of ginger, and 4 jujubes. Decoct in water and drink. It has a good effect on prolonged menstruation caused by qi deficiency.

4. Treat infertility

Using mugwort and other medicines together to make a therapeutic diet has a good effect in treating infertility caused by spleen and kidney yang deficiency. Usage: Take 2 quails, remove the hair and internal organs, 15g each of donkey-hide gelatin, dodder seed, and deer antler glue, 10g each of ginseng and Chuanxiong, and 30g of mugwort. First, boil dodder seeds, mugwort leaves, chuanxiong and ginseng in water, remove the residue and take 250ml of juice. Then put the quail and the juice in a steaming bowl and stew them until they are cooked. Add donkey-hide gelatin and deer antler glue while it is still hot and eat the meat and drink the soup.

5. Acupuncture

Mugwort is often used in acupuncture. For treating facial paralysis, rub the dry moxa leaves into a ball as big as a peanut, take 8 slices of ginger as big as 2 cent coins, use a needle to pierce several holes in the center of the ginger slices, place a moxa stick on top, first moxibustion the Xiaguan acupoint, and then move repeatedly from Xiaguan to Cheek Cartilage acupoint. The ginger slices should not leave the skin when moving. It is advisable to apply moxibustion three times with each slice of ginger. Moxibustion should be continued until the skin becomes warm, red and hot, and the patient can tolerate it. Moxibustion is performed once a day, and one course of treatment is 7 days (if the patient with facial paralysis has his mouth tilted to the left, moxibustion is performed on the right side; otherwise, moxibustion is performed on the left side).

6. Weight loss

Operation method: light one end of the moxa roll and place it close to Guanyuan and Fenglong points respectively, and fumigate for about 10 minutes until the local area turns red. Take once a day, 10 times as a course of treatment. Generally, 3 to 5 courses of treatment can achieve effective weight loss results.

3. Suitable for people

It is suitable for people suffering from periarthritis of the shoulder, lumbar muscle strain, low back and leg pain, bone hyperplasia, intervertebral disc herniation, epigastric cold pain, cough and asthma, facial paralysis, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms. There are also people with irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, uterine cold and infertility, fetal movement disorder, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hemoptysis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, bleeding during pregnancy, diarrhea, chronic dysentery, leucorrhea, eczema, scabies, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, etc.