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Mugwort leaves are a common Chinese herbal medicine in daily life. They are emerald green in appearance. You can use dry mugwort leaves or mugwort leaves just picked from mugwort branches to fully exert their effects, but in reality most of the mugwort leaves used are freshly picked mugwort leaves. Mugwort leaves play many roles in our daily life. Mugwort leaves are needed in many areas, especially for some women, mugwort leaves are a good health care medicine.

What does mugwort leaves look like

The stem has obvious ridges, the upper part is branched, and is covered with milky white short cotton hairs. Simple leaves, symbiotic, the middle leaves of the stem are ovate-triangular or elliptic, petiolate, deeply palmately lobed, the two pairs of lobes on both sides are elliptic to oblate-lanceolate, and the middle is often 3-lobed, the edges of the lobes are serrated, the upper side is dark green, covered with small glandular dots, sparsely covered with milky white soft hairs, and the lower side is light green, densely covered with milky white hairs; the leaves at the top of the stem are entire or 3-lobed. Mugwort leaves taste slightly bitter, spicy and warm. It enters the liver, spleen and spleen meridians. It is bitter, dry, pungent and dispersing, and can regulate blood and qi, warm the meridians, expel dampness and cold, and relieve cold pain. It is an important medicine for gynecology. It is used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, menstrual disorders due to cold, infertility due to cold uterus, etc., such as Ai Fu Nuan Gong Pills. Stir-fried charcoal can invigorate blood circulation and can be used to treat menorrhagia due to yin deficiency and internal heat, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and fetal bleeding during pregnancy, such as Jiao Ai Decoction. This product can be pounded into moxa patches and moxa sticks. External moxibustion can dispel cold, relieve pain, and warm the blood. The decoction can be used for external washing to treat eczema, scabies, and tinea, and to remove dampness and relieve itching.

What are the benefits of mugwort leaves?

Function 1: Antibacterial and antiviral treatment

Mugwort leaves are not only an ingredient, but also an edible food. Northerners often use mugwort leaves to make some mugwort cakes, which can actually show the important effect of mugwort leaves. There are a lot of nutrients in mugwort leaves, which can regulate the energy needed by the body very well. Mugwort leaves can also have antibacterial, antiviral and immunity-enhancing effects. If you encounter wounds in daily life, you can also apply mugwort leaves directly, but this can only be done when there is no other way. Generally, appropriate disinfection and bandaging are still required.

Function 2: Dehumidification

For women, the best function of wormwood leaves is to remove moisture. Women are very easy to be infected with moisture in the body, and once the moisture in the body is present, it cannot be eliminated for many years. However, regularly soaking feet with wormwood leaves or taking some wormwood leaves can effectively remove moisture from the body. However, the use of wormwood leaves to remove dampness must be persisted for a long time. Only one or two days will not have any practical effect. Nowadays, many health salons also use moxibustion to remove moisture. This method is actually a very good way to remove moisture, and it will not cause adverse effects on the human body. It can effectively remove moisture from the body quickly.

Function 3: Disperse fire

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves during the dog days can prevent a lot of inflammations, especially in this kind of weather, which makes it easy to get angry, and soaking your feet in mugwort leaves can help dispel the heat. Women can use mugwort leaves to bathe or shower every day after giving birth, because there will be a lot of moisture and dirt in women's bodies after giving birth. Soaking feet with mugwort leaves can remove these very well, and it is also very good for postpartum recovery.

Function 4: Adjust menstrual period

In the case of irregular menstruation, you can also take a bath with mugwort leaves or eat some mugwort leaves appropriately, and pay more attention to your lifestyle in daily life, so that the condition of irregular menstruation may be alleviated a lot.

When using mugwort leaves, everyone should also pay attention that some people are not suitable for using mugwort leaves. For example, some people with kidney yin deficiency and blood heat should not use wormwood leaves. On the contrary, these symptoms will be aggravated after use. At the same time, you should also be careful when taking a bath or soaking your feet with wormwood leaves. Don't soak for a long time. Soaking for too long can easily cause dizziness.