Can drinking mugwort water help you lose weight?

Can drinking mugwort water help you lose weight?

We all know that mugwort is a traditional Chinese medicine that has a good antibacterial and antiviral effect. In fact, in our daily life, we mainly use mugwort to cook dishes or make soup, and few people use mugwort to soak in water and drink it. There is a folk legend that drinking mugwort water regularly can help lose weight. Is this true? In fact, mugwort water has no effect on weight loss, but it has a great effect on increasing appetite.

1. No weight loss effect

Drinking boiled mugwort water has many benefits, but I have never heard that it can help with weight loss. In addition, you can boil mugwort leaves in water and drink it. In many lives, female friends use this method to take care of themselves. Because boiling mugwort leaves in water has a certain effect of warming the meridians and dredging the collaterals, it is especially effective for female friends suffering from cold stagnation and qi stagnation. In traditional Chinese medicine, mugwort has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, reducing dampness and killing insects. It is especially suitable for female friends with menstrual problems. Not only that, but mugwort also has inhibitory and killing effects on many viruses and bacteria. If you use mugwort water to fumigate your nose, it will also have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases.

2. Enhance people's resistance to disease

There is also a saying that it takes a thousand years to get one piece of mugwort, so mugwort is also a very medicinal material with great efficacy. Research shows that drinking boiled mugwort water can enhance people's resistance to disease, because mugwort is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug that has inhibitory and killing effects on many viruses and bacteria. In addition, mugwort has a refreshing taste. Although it tastes slightly bitter, it is this bitter element that can increase appetite. In addition, mugwort can also warm the blood and eliminate cold and dampness. , regulate qi and blood, expel cold and dampness; warm the meridians, stop bleeding, and stabilize the fetus. Treats cold pain in the heart and abdomen, diarrhea

Diarrhea, convulsions, chronic dysentery, vomiting, epistaxis, bleeding, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, fetal movement disorder, carbuncle, scabies.

3. Suitable for deficiency and cold

Artemisia argyi, also known as fragrant wormwood, Qi wormwood, and mugwort, is bitter, pungent, and warm in nature.

Spleen, liver, and kidney meridians. It can dispel cold and dampness, warm the meridians and stop bleeding. It is suitable for bleeding and abdominal pain caused by deficiency and cold. It has obvious therapeutic effects on women with irregular menstruation, abdominal pain and metrorrhagia caused by deficiency and cold. It is a good gynecological medicine. Now is the time when mugwort is on the market. Mugwort can be used to make mugwort rice cakes.

The heart is processed into various dishes and medicinal foods.

4. Antibacterial effect

Fumigation with moxa sticks can also reduce the bacteria on burn wounds. Pig

After moxibustion treatment, the progression of tuberculosis in rats was slower and the lesions were milder, especially in the later stages of the disease. In addition, moxibustion can enhance the phagocytic response of reticuloendothelial cells, but the degree of enhancement is not as significant as when the animals acquire immunity.

The phagocytic function of the liver cells is consistent with the tuberculosis lesions in the internal organs. When the liver and spleen are damaged by the disease, the phagocytic function decreases.

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