Can pregnant women use wormwood?

I believe everyone is familiar with mugwort. It is a very common plant in people's lives, and it is also a traditional Chinese medicine that has many benefits for people's bodies, such as treating menstrual abdominal pain, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough and expectoration, and relieving arthritis pain and other symptoms. There are many things that women cannot touch after they become pregnant. So can pregnant women use mugwort? Let’s introduce it in detail below.

Pregnant women can eat mugwort.

Mugwort is used as medicine with its leaves, 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.

The whole plant of mugwort has the effects of regulating menstruation and stopping bleeding, stabilizing pregnancy and stopping metrorrhagia, and dispelling cold and dampness. It can treat irregular menstruation, menstrual pain, abdominal pain, miscarriage, uterine bleeding, and cure rheumatoid arthritis, headache, and menstrual wind. Because it can cut ice into round shapes and cure all kinds of diseases, it is the most commonly used medicine by doctors. Modern experimental research has shown that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and anti-allergic effects; liver protecting and choleretic effects, etc.

Therefore, pregnant women can eat mugwort. Pregnant women eating mugwort will not only not affect the baby in the belly, but also can help stop bleeding and stabilize the fetus. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant mothers eat some mugwort at the right time.

How to eat mugwort

Mugwort Syrup

Preparation method: 15 grams of mugwort leaves and 20 grams of sugar, cook them together and drink the soup.

Effects: Irritability during menstruation, red and painful urination, dry and bitter mouth, preference for cold water, constipation, red tongue with yellow coating, and weak pulse. It is suitable for clearing away heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Mugwort Cake

Preparation method: Beat the May mugwort into a paste, and then use glutinous rice flour to make mugwort cakes. They have a strong mugwort aroma and a slight bitter taste, leaving a lingering fragrance on the teeth and cheeks after eating. Ru Mengling likes the mugwort cakes made by her aunt. She doesn’t put white sugar in them, but uses brown sugar powder and fried sesame seeds or peanuts.

Function: It has beauty function and is a must-eat snack for Hakka women during confinement. It can also cure colds.

Mugwort Water Cake

Preparation method: Take appropriate amounts of mugwort leaves, glutinous rice, sticky rice and sugar. First dry the mugwort in the shade, then soak it with sticky rice or glutinous rice for 2 hours, and grind it into rice paste with a beater; dissolve the sugar and cook it with the rice paste into a paste, steam it in a copper basin for 60 minutes, and cut it into pieces after cooling.

Mugwort and Garlic Soup

Preparation method: 50 grams of garlic, 20 grams of raw lotus leaves, 20 grams of raw mugwort leaves, 20 grams of raw cypress leaves and 20 grams of fresh rehmannia. Mix all the ingredients together and mash them into a paste. Boil them in water and take it. It can calm the adverse qi and stop bleeding.

Mugwort and brown sugar water

Preparation method: 5 slices of ginger, 5 dates, 15 grams of mugwort leaves, and appropriate amount of brown sugar, decocted in water.

Function: Used for dysmenorrhea.

Steamed mugwort with flour

Preparation method: Remove the hard stems and dead leaves from fresh mugwort, wash away the mud and sand with clean water, then mix 1 kg of mugwort with 250 grams of flour, mix well so that all the mugwort is covered with flour. Then put it in the steamer and steam for about 30 to 40 minutes before serving. The steamed mugwort leaves are grayish white and have no strong aromatic medicinal smell. Then serve in a bowl and add seasonings such as sesame oil, chili noodles, onions, and mashed garlic.

Function: Appetite and warming stomach.

Mugwort Dumplings

Preparation method: Chop 300 grams of mugwort leaves; chop appropriate amounts of green onions, bean sprouts and tofu. Mix the above ingredients well and season with salt and MSG to make the filling. Wrap the filling in the dough into dumpling shape and steam or boil them in a pot.

Function: Increase appetite.

Mugwort Vegetable Balls

Method: Chop the mugwort leaves into pieces, add appropriate amount of flour, knead into dough with water and salt, make mugwort balls of appropriate size, and steam them in a pot.

Function: It can "promote qi and blood, relieve cold and dampness, stop bleeding, and stabilize the fetus." Especially the mugwort leaves around the Dragon Boat Festival are fresh, tender and delicious, and have the effect of stimulating the appetite and strengthening the spleen.