Can wild mugwort be eaten?

Nowadays, more and more people like to return to nature and choose pure natural food, so wild vegetables are popular among people. Wild mugwort is a wild vegetable with great nutritional value. It contains a large amount of vitamins, which is very helpful in supplementing the essential components of the human body. Moreover, wild mugwort is also a medicinal material, which is beneficial for women to regulate their bodies. So, can wild mugwort be eaten?

Wild mugwort is rich in vitamins. The young leaves are eaten in spring, and the leaves are used as medicine in summer and autumn. The young leaves can be blanched and served cold, or made into mugwort tea, mugwort soup or mugwort porridge. Wild mugwort is known as the "essential medicine for stopping bleeding" and is a commonly used gynecological medicine. It is used for cold pain in the lower abdomen, irregular menstruation, uterine cold infertility, skin itching, etc.

1. [Nutritional value of wild mugwort]

edible

The young shoots can be eaten as vegetables or pickled. Fresh grass as feed.

Medicinal

【Nature and flavor】Bitter, pungent, warm.

① "Bie Lu": bitter, slightly warm, non-toxic.

② "Tang Materia Medica": Raw is cold, cooked is hot.

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": bitter and pungent, warm when raw, hot when cooked.

[entry into meridians]Enters the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": enters the Taiyin, Jueyin and Shaoyin meridians of the foot.

② "New Edition of Materia Medica": enters the spleen, kidney and lung meridians.

③ "Bencao Zaixin": enters the heart and kidney meridians.

2. [Effects and functions of Artemisia argyi]

Regulate Qi and blood, expel cold and dampness; warm the meridians, stop bleeding, and stabilize the fetus. It is used to treat cold pain in the heart and abdomen, diarrhea, convulsions, chronic dysentery, vomiting and epistaxis, bleeding, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, fetal movement disorder, carbuncle, and scabies.

① "Bielu": Moxibustion can cure all kinds of diseases. It can be decocted to stop diarrhea, vomiting blood, ulcers in the lower body, and bleeding in women. It benefits the yin energy, builds muscles, wards off wind and cold, and helps people have children.

② Tao Hongjing: Crush the leaves and use them for moxibustion to treat all kinds of diseases and also to stop bleeding. The juice also kills roundworms. Boil the leaves with bitter wine to treat ringworm.

③ "Materia Medica": Stops metrorrhagia, stabilizes pregnancy and relieves abdominal pain. Stop red and white dysentery and bleeding from hemorrhoids in the five internal organs. Long-term use can stop cold diarrhea. If you have bad stomachache, take the leaves, mash them into juice and drink it.

④ "Tang Materia Medica": It is used to treat bleeding, epistaxis, and bloody dysentery. It can be boiled in water or taken as pills or powder.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy": It can treat wounds, metrorrhagia, cholera, and stop miscarriage.

⑥ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can stop cholera and cramps, treat heart pain, nasal congestion, and leucorrhea.

⑦ "Pearl Capsule": warms the stomach.

⑧ "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": Treats throat pain, heat congestion, and difficulty in eating and drinking. Mash the juice and gargle.

⑨ "Wang Haogu": Treats belt meridian disease, abdominal distension, and a loose waist as if sitting in water.

⑩ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Warms the middle, expels cold, and removes dampness.

⑾ "Bencao Zheng": It can ward off wind, cold, malaria and malaria.

⑿ "Bencao Zaixin": Regulates menstruation, relieves depression, regulates qi and promotes blood circulation. Treat postpartum convulsions and umbilical sores in children.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 1 to 3 qian; make into pills, powder or juice. For external use: pound the wool into incense sticks or make it into moxa sticks for fumigation, pound it for application, decoct it in water for fumigation and washing, or fry it and warm it for ironing.

【Note】 Use with caution in patients with yin deficiency and blood heat.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": Bitter wine and Cyperus rotundus are the messengers.

② "Bencao Beiyao": It is forbidden to use for patients with blood heat.

③ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: It is forbidden for those with Yin deficiency, excessive fire, dry blood generating heat, and those with chronic blood loss disease. [3]

[Tibetan Medicine] Purmannabao: The above-ground parts are used to treat insect diseases, anthrax, gangrene, and skin diseases. "Chinese Tibetan Medicine".

[ Mongolian medicine] Same as Artemisia argyi (Mongolian medicine record).

3. [How to eat wild mugwort]

Farm-Style Wild Mugwort Corn Pancakes

Ingredients: wild mugwort leaves, cornmeal, wheat flour, bean flour, salt, MSG, lard, onions, baking soda, and sugar.

Method: First mix corn flour and bean flour in a ratio of 1:2, add a little flour, baking soda, lard, sugar and chopped green onion, then add wild mugwort leaves and mix well. Pour oil into a frying pan, heat it up, scoop the batter with a spoon and put it into the pan, spread it into a pancake, and fry it until cooked.