Effects of boiled mugwort water

Everyone must have seen mugwort in their daily life, especially around the Dragon Boat Festival, which is when mugwort grows most luxuriantly. At this time, many people will pick some fresh mugwort to wash their faces and soak their feet. Some people pick fresh mugwort and take it home to dry it in the sun, and then take it out to boil water to drink after a while. This kind of mugwort is called aged mugwort. So what are the effects of boiled aged mugwort water?

Chen Ai is a herb with relatively high medicinal value. It can treat many diseases. Chen Ai is available in many places in my country, but many people don’t know much about the efficacy and usage of drinking boiled Chen Ai water. Let’s take a look at it together.

1. Nature, flavor and meridians

Mugwort is bitter, spicy and warm in nature. It enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It is bitter, dry, pungent and dispersing, and can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, and relieve cold pain. It is an important gynecological medicine. 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. Usage and Dosage

(1) Aged mugwort is used to treat sudden onset of pregnancy, restlessness, lower back pain, heart palpitations, or persistent bleeding: Take a mugwort leaf the size of an egg, add four liters of wine, boil it to get two liters, and divide it into two doses. (Behind the Elbow)

(2) Aged mugwort is used to treat enteritis, acute urinary tract infection, and cystitis: 10 grams of mugwort leaves, 10 grams of Polygonum hydropiper, and 80 grams of Plantain. Decoction in water, one dose per day, once in the morning and once in the evening. (Jiangsu Xuzhou "Selection of New Medical Methods of Single Prescriptions")

(3) Aged mugwort for treating sudden heart pain: Take three liters of mature white mugwort, add three liters of water, boil it and take one liter, remove the residue and drink it all at once. If the person is poisoned by external pathogens, he should vomit out the worms. (《Filling the gap at the back of the elbow》)

(4) Aged mugwort treats cold pain in the spleen and stomach: Boil white mugwort powder in water and take 10 grams. (《Healthy and Simple Recipes》)

(5) Aged mugwort is used to treat sudden vomiting of one or two mouthfuls of blood, or epistaxis, or internal bleeding: boil the mugwort with about three eggs and five liters of water, and boil it until two liters are consumed. (Qianjin Fang)