Can wormwood cure skin diseases?

Many people are very familiar with mugwort, but very few people know that mugwort is actually a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. As long as it is used correctly, the treatment effect will be better. It can play a good auxiliary therapeutic role, especially for skin diseases. The effect will become more obvious. No matter what kind of skin disease it is, using mugwort for treatment can achieve a good therapeutic purpose to varying degrees.

Medicinal value:

It can be treated by boiling water with mugwort leaves. Because mugwort can inhibit bacteria and resist viruses, eczema is the most common disease. In life, especially children, the body's resistance is poor. If you have eczema, you must deal with it in time. First, boil the mugwort, pour the juice into the bathtub, and wash once a day. Keep washing and it will get better. If the patient's eczema is severe and the affected areas are relatively concentrated, you can apply mugwort to the eczema areas. Specifically, use 50 grams each of talc and calamine, 15 grams of mugwort, add an appropriate amount of borneol, grind them into powder together, wrap them with sterilized cotton gauze, and finally apply them to the affected skin.

Mugwort tastes pungent and bitter, is warm in nature, and is non-toxic; it enters the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians; it is aromatic, warm and dispersing, and can rise or fall, and has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and reducing dampness and killing insects. Indications: irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, infertility due to cold uterus, restless fetal movement, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, bleeding during pregnancy, diarrhea and chronic dysentery, leucorrhea, eczema, scabies, carbuncle, and hemorrhoids. Moxibustion can cure all diseases. Eczema, known as damp-toxic sores in traditional Chinese medicine, is mostly caused by rheumatic heat that invades the skin and causes stagnation. Therefore, it is generally not advisable to eat foods that are hot in nature, so as not to increase heat and dampness, thereby aggravating the condition. Therefore, mugwort cannot be used to treat eczema.

The whole plant is used as medicine, which has the effects of warming the meridians, removing dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, relieving inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, stabilizing pregnancy and anti-allergic. Medical books of all dynasties record it as an "essential medicine for stopping bleeding" and it is also one of the commonly used medicines in gynecology. It is especially good for treating gynecological diseases of deficiency and cold, and chronic bronchitis and asthma in the elderly. Boiled water for bathing can prevent and treat maternal and infant infections during the postpartum period, or it can be made into medicinal pillows and medicated vests to prevent and treat chronic bronchitis or asthma in the elderly and stomach pain due to deficiency and cold. Mugwort leaves are dried and crushed to get "moptysis wool", which can be made into moxa sticks for moxibustion, and can also be used as the raw material for "ink paste". In addition, the whole plant can be used as an insecticide or fumigation smoke for room disinfection and insecticide. The young shoots and seedlings are used as vegetables. [1]

Mugwort is bitter, pungent and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, liver and kidneys. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Mugwort leaves are used as medicine, which are warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, purely yang in nature, and can pass through the twelve meridians. It has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and stabilizing the fetus, and is also commonly used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also called "medicinal herb". Most of the "herbal baths" that are popular in Taiwan use mugwort. Regarding the properties of mugwort, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Mugwort can cure all diseases." "Compendium of Materia Medica Congxin" says: "Mugwort is bitter and pungent, warm when raw, hot when cooked, and has a purely yang nature. It can restore the lost yang, connect the twelve meridians, run through the three yin meridians, regulate qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, and warm the uterus... Using it for moxibustion can penetrate all meridians and cure all diseases." This shows that using mugwort as a moxibustion material has the effects of dredging blood vessels, eliminating yin and cold, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and restoring yang and rescuing from adverse conditions. Modern pharmacology has discovered that mugwort contains a lot of volatile oil, including 1.8-cineole (accounting for more than 50%), and others include α-thujone, sesquiterpene alcohols and their esters. The air-dried leaves contain 10.13% minerals, 2.59% fat, 25.85% protein, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, etc. When using moxa leaves for moxibustion, generally speaking, the older the leaves, the better. Hence, there is a saying that “a seven-year illness requires three years of treatment with moxa” (Mencius).