Can mugwort be soaked in water and drunk? What are its effects?

Mugwort, which we often call mugwort leaf, is also called big mugwort leaf and du mugwort leaf. It is a very common plant in life. There are many benefits of soaking mugwort in water, but they are all used to treat skin diseases by taking a bath after soaking in water. For example, after suffering from eczema, you can use mugwort water to directly scrub the affected area. In fact, many people also use mugwort leaves to make tea, which has many benefits for health.

The effect of drinking wormwood soaked in water

?The reason why drinking mugwort soaked in water has many benefits is that it contains a variety of effective ingredients. First of all, mugwort contains unique volatile oil components, such as phellandrene, thujaseene, thuja alcohol, etc. It also contains tannins, vitamin A, vitamin B, etc., which have the effects of expectorant, cough relief, and asthma relief. Modern medical research shows that the benefits of drinking mugwort tea include inhibiting typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus, pneumococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, diphtheria bacillus and certain fungi.

? Mugwort can dispel cold and dampness, warm the meridians and stop bleeding. It is suitable for bleeding and abdominal pain caused by deficiency and cold, especially for irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, metrorrhagia caused by deficiency and cold constitution in women, fetal movement disorder and low back pain in pregnant women. ?

Drinking mugwort tea can also help relieve gastrointestinal diseases and treat constipation. The specific method is: wash the dry moxa leaves and put them in a teacup, pour in boiling water and brew it as tea. If you are afraid of bitterness, you can add a little rock sugar and brew it several times a day. Using this method, you can see obvious therapeutic effects after half a month.

Mugwort therapy

???? 1. Treatment of female dysmenorrhea : 5 slices of ginger, 15 grams of mugwort leaves, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Wash the ingredients, boil them all in water and drink.

2. Treatment of habitual abortion caused by kidney deficiency, yang deficiency and blood deficiency in women : 1 old hen, 15 grams of mugwort leaves, appropriate amounts of rice wine and salt. Clean the old hen, chop it into pieces, wash the mugwort leaves, put them together with the old hen into a stewing pot, add appropriate amount of rice wine and water, cover the stewing pot, put it in the pot and stew it over low heat for 3 hours, then add salt to taste.

?3. Treatment of menorrhagia and metrorrhagia due to deficiency-cold: 15 grams of mugwort leaves and 20 grams of donkey-hide gelatin. Put mugwort leaves into a pot with water, boil over high heat then simmer for 1-2 hours, add crushed donkey-hide gelatin particles, stir while cooking until the gelatin is dissolved before serving.

???? 4. Treatment of irregular menstruation and cold pain in the lower abdomen : 15 grams of dry wormwood leaves, 50 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Fry the mugwort leaves to obtain a thick juice, remove the residue, and cook it with rice, brown sugar and water into a thick porridge. Take it 3 days after menstruation stops, and stop taking it 3 days before menstruation. Take twice a day, warm in the morning and evening.