Can mugwort cure skin diseases?

Mugwort is a common traditional Chinese medicine. It is effective in treating skin diseases. It can treat urticaria and has a certain allergic effect on the skin. It can also relieve the itching caused by skin diseases. It has a good effect on the treatment of common warts and flat warts. Therefore, when some skin diseases occur, you can use mugwort to treat them under the guidance of a doctor.

Can mugwort cure skin diseases? 1. To treat urticaria, take 10 grams of raw mugwort and 100 grams of white wine. Decoction until about 50 grams is left and take it all at once. Once a day, for 3 consecutive days; decoct 30-50 grams of mugwort leaves in water, first fumigate and then wash the affected area, 3-4 times a day. 2. To treat skin ulcers, take 15 grams each of mugwort leaves, tea leaves, Ligustrum lucidum leaves, and sapodilla beans, decoct them in water, and use them for external washing or wet compressing the affected area, 3 times a day. 3. To treat skin itching, take 30 grams each of mugwort and Eupatorium, add water and boil them into a concentrated liquid, then wash the affected area with warm water for 10 to 15 minutes, once a day. One course of treatment is 10 days. Take 10 grams each of mugwort, saposhnikovia divaricata, and Schizonepeta tenuifolia, boil them in water and use for fumigation and washing.

The effects and functions of mugwort leaves 1. Moxa sticks are cylindrical objects processed from mugwort that are similar to cigarettes but several times larger in size. After lighting the moxa stick and fumigating the corresponding acupoints, the moxa gas can enter the acupoints downward, reach the meridians through the acupoints, and then reach the body through the meridians, thereby playing a role in dispelling cold and promoting blood circulation. 2. To treat common warts and flat warts: Pick fresh moxa leaves, rub them until juice comes out, and rub them on the surface of the warts until the skin becomes slightly hot or slightly red, but do not break the skin. Do this twice a day. 3. Treatment of habitual miscarriage and infertility: Place the lit moxa stick on the abdomen near the navel, and let the smoke gradually enter the meridians in the body along the acupuncture points near the navel, regulating the meridians and qi and blood. At the same time, it also has a very good conditioning effect on the uterus and ovaries. Long-term persistence can also treat habitual miscarriage and infertility. 4. Treatment of scrotal eczema: Put 20 grams of fresh moxa leaves in a pot, add 500 ml of water, boil, soak absorbent cotton or a small towel in the hot medicinal liquid, apply it to the scrotum, or wash the scrotum, or fumigate and wash the scrotum while it is hot, and then apply a hot towel to the scrotum. 5. To treat cold type dysmenorrhea: take 30 grams of angelica, 15 grams of mugwort, 60 grams of brown sugar, boil in water and get 3 bowls, take warm in 3 times.