How to eat fresh mugwort

I think everyone should be familiar with the medicinal herb mugwort, mainly because mugwort can remove moisture, regulate qi and blood, and improve the body's resistance. I hope everyone should understand the medicinal value of mugwort. Fresh mugwort can be used to make mugwort dumplings or for bathing. For specific methods, we recommend that you learn from the article and then correctly utilize the nutritional value of mugwort.

How to eat fresh mugwort leaves

With the arrival of Grain Rain, the weather gradually warms up, nourishing all things, not only the plants on earth, but also breeding moisture, bacteria and viruses. Therefore, March is the best time to eat mugwort. Mugwort, used as a traditional Chinese medicine, is usually dried and dried, but fresh mugwort can be eaten as a wild vegetable. When eating fresh mugwort, choose the tenderest tips of the leaves. This part is more suitable for consumption and has a fresh and juicy taste. According to different physical conditions of different people, you can mix mugwort with different medicinal ingredients to make medicinal meals. Next, I will introduce to you how to eat fresh mugwort leaves.

1. Dumplings stuffed with mugwort leaves: Pick fresh mugwort leaves and wash them. Then put the mugwort leaves and pork into a meat grinder and grind them. Then add salt and seasonings, mix well, and wrap them into dumplings using white flour skin.

2. Ai Ban: This is a traditional Hakka snack. Fry sesame seeds, red beans and peanuts separately, grind them into powder, then wash the mugwort leaves, rinse them with boiling water and crush them in a juicer, add the crushed mugwort leaves to glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour to make dough, then divide the dough containing mugwort leaves into small doses, wrap sesame powder, red bean powder and peanut powder into the dough, steam the dough in a steamer and it is ready to eat.

3. Mugwort tea: This tea can remove dampness and coldness from the body and promote blood circulation. It is also effective in preventing modern diseases such as air-conditioning disease. The picked young wormwood is dehydrated and dried, and then rinsed with boiling water.

The efficacy and effects of wormwood

Mugwort has a special fragrance. In addition to repelling mosquitoes, it also has many functions and effects that are beneficial to the human body as a traditional Chinese medicine and food. Next, let's learn about the functions and effects of mugwort.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mugwort is bitter, spicy and warm, and can restore yang, regulate qi and blood, and expel moisture and cold from the body. Modern people often spend most of the day in air-conditioned rooms, and like to drink cold drinks and eat cold food, which can easily accumulate moisture and cold air in the body. When it reaches a certain amount, the body will become sick, with symptoms such as sticky stools, loss of appetite, listlessness, etc. Dampness is water. People go to high places and water flows to low places, so the damp and cold air will sink and often accumulate in the lower part of the human body. At this time, soaking your feet in water with mugwort or fumigating the soles of your feet with mugwort strips can expel dampness and coldness from the body, and symptoms such as sticky stools, loss of appetite, and listlessness will be alleviated.

2. People also eat mugwort on a daily basis. Mugwort contains a large amount of insoluble crude fiber, which can not only promote intestinal peristalsis and clean up garbage and toxins accumulated in the intestines, but also speed up the passage of food through the gastrointestinal tract, thereby reducing absorption; in addition, insoluble crude fiber absorbs water in the large intestine to soften the stool, which is conducive to defecation and prevents hemorrhoids.

3. Mugwort can improve the body's immunity. Mugwort contains a large amount of carotene. After carotene enters the human body, biochemical reactions occur to synthesize the vitamin A needed by the human body. In addition to maintaining normal vision and improving night blindness, promoting growth and development, vitamin A can also promote the synthesis of immunoglobulins. The chemical basis of all antibodies is immunoglobulins, thereby improving the body's immunity.

4. Mugwort is the magic herb given by God to women. Women are prone to "cold, dampness and blood stasis", but mugwort has the effects of regulating qi and blood, warming the meridians, expelling cold and dampness, and warming the uterus. It has always been an important gynecological medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine.

5. The glycerin in mugwort is rich in selenium, and the greatest function of selenium is that it can significantly inhibit precancerous lesions. Within the effective dosage range, the earlier selenium is supplemented, the lower the incidence of cancer. The selenium in mugwort is very well absorbed by the human body.

6. Modern medical research has found that the thujone content in mugwort has inhibitory and killing effects on a variety of microorganisms (fungi and viruses). In addition, thujone can promote the regeneration of skin and mucosal cells and accelerate wound healing.

Through this article’s introduction to the consumption methods and medicinal value of mugwort, I believe everyone should know the nutritional value of this medicinal material. Mugwort is rich in minerals, which can relieve mental fatigue and promote blood circulation. It is especially good for women after childbirth.