Is it good to drink mugwort soaked in water?

Mugwort is a plant leaf with medicinal effects and is widely used in life. In particular, Chinese medicine highly recommends the use of mugwort to treat various diseases, and it can be used to make health care foods. For example, soaking mugwort in water is a very popular practice. However, mugwort has a unique taste that many people don't like. Let's take a look at whether it's good to drink mugwort soaked in water?

In traditional Chinese medicine, mugwort is warm in nature, bitter and pungent 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.

Mainly in clinical practice, the uses of mugwort can be divided into two categories: external use and internal use. Among them, fire moxibustion is the most famous for external use, and its internal uses are very wide. Its application in gynecological diseases is the most eye-catching, and it is mainly used for gynecological diseases. Mugwort has antibacterial, enhances the phagocytosis of reticulum epithelial cells, relieves asthma, resists allergic shock, suppresses cough, eliminates phlegm, shortens clotting time, promotes bile secretion and stimulates the uterus. Therefore, drinking mugwort soaked in water has poor therapeutic effect and cannot achieve the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.

But don't overdo it. It can cause poisoning and death. The volatile oil contained in mugwort leaves has a mild irritating effect on the skin, causing fever and flushing. Oral administration can stimulate gastrointestinal secretion. Oral administration of 3-5g of dried mugwort leaves can increase appetite, but large doses can cause acute gastrointestinal inflammation and produce a lot of nausea and vomiting. If absorbed in large quantities, it can cause excessive excitement of the central nervous system, resulting in delirium, convulsions and liver damage.

Due to changes in nerve reflexes and damage to the blood vessel walls themselves, it can cause uterine congestion, bleeding, and even miscarriage during pregnancy. About 100g of mugwort is needed to cause death, and the medicinal dosage generally cannot exceed 10g. If it exceeds 2-3 times this amount, there is a possibility of poisoning. Efficacy classification: hemostatic drug; anti-dampness drug.