Is it better to use dry or wet moxa wash for inflammation?

Mugwort is a very common plant in our daily life. It is often used in various Chinese medicine prescriptions or physical therapy processes to bring health protection to people's bodies, because mugwort has strong therapeutic effects and can expel adverse factors in the body in time. Especially when there is inflammation in the body, you can use mugwort soaked in water to clean it. But is it better to use dry or wet mugwort to wash inflammation? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

It is usually dried for medicinal purposes, and fresh for consumption, such as making mugwort dumplings. The young stems can also be eaten, and they are also used for medicinal purposes with the stems.

There was a proverb popular among the people: "If you have mugwort at home for three years, you won't need a doctor." It can be seen that mugwort is believed by the people to be helpful to human health. So can mugwort cure gynecological diseases? Experts say that mugwort can treat gynecological diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mugwort is warm in nature, bitter and spicy in taste, and has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, removing dampness and relieving itching, and calming the fetus. It is mainly used to treat vomiting blood, epistaxis, hemoptysis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, bleeding during pregnancy, fetal movement disorder, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, diarrhea and chronic dysentery, leucorrhea, eczema, painful ulcers, and scabies.

If female friends do not maintain good hygiene during menstruation, or have unclean private life, urinary tract infection may occur. Female friends with urinary tract infection can take 10 grams each of mugwort leaves and hot polygonum, and about 80 grams of plantain seeds, mix them, decoct them and take them once in the morning and evening.

2. Treatment of vaginitis

The method is to boil the dried mugwort leaves in water for about 15 minutes, then filter the mugwort leaves, and finally use the mugwort soup to fumigate the vagina and other parts. The effect will be better if combined with massage techniques.

3. Treatment of vulvar itching

Vulvar itching brings a lot of inconvenience to women's daily life and work, so women should treat these diseases in time and take protective measures. Women can take 20 grams each of mugwort leaves and cnidium monnieri, 15 grams of phellodendron, and a small amount of pepper. Then fry it. When the condition is almost right, apply it to the itchy vulva areas. It also has a certain effect on eczema.

4. Treat dysmenorrhea and abdominal pain

Many female friends will suffer from excruciating pain every time they have their menstruation. At this time, female friends can take mugwort for treatment, which is very effective for dysmenorrhea. Take 12 grams each of mugwort leaves and astragalus, a small amount of cinnamon, Evodia rutaecarpa, angelica, fried Cyperus rotundus, and Corydalis yanhusuo, then boil them, take them three times a day, and persist in taking them for a period of time.