Motherwort and Wormwood

Motherwort and mugwort can be taken together, both of which are Chinese medicinal materials. However, the specific way to take them still needs to be based on the doctor's instructions. If you take them at home at random with Chinese medicinal materials, it may have an impact on your body, because all medicines are toxic. This will aggravate your condition and directly cause some complications in your body. You should pay attention to it.

Can motherwort and wormwood be drunk together?

Mugwort is also a very good food. Among the traditional foods in southern China, there is a kind of glutinous rice cake which is made with mugwort as the main ingredient (see Mugwort glutinous rice cake). That is, use fresh mugwort and glutinous rice flour in a ratio of one to two around the Qingming Festival, wrap it with fillings such as peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar (mung bean paste is added in some areas), and then steam it. In the Dongjiang River Basin of Guangdong, locals pick fresh mugwort leaves and buds in winter and spring and eat them as vegetables.

During the beginning of spring, the Hakka people in Ganzhou have the custom of collecting mugwort and making mugwort fruit. The shape of Aimiguo is a bit like dumplings, but it is larger in size and has stuffing inside. It is delicious and can be used as a staple food. [4]

dye

Can be used as natural plant dye. Mugwort dyeing also has functional effects.

Mugwort is bitter, pungent and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, liver and kidneys. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Mugwort leaves are used as medicine, 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, and is also commonly used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also called "medicinal herb". Most of the "herbal baths" that are popular in Taiwan use mugwort. Regarding the properties of mugwort, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "mugwort can cure all diseases by moxibustion." "Compendium of Materia Medica Congxin" says: "mugwort is bitter and pungent, warm when raw and hot when cooked, and has a pure yang nature. It can restore the yang that is dying, connect the twelve meridians, flow through the three yin meridians, regulate qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, and warm the uterus... Using it to moxibustion fire can penetrate all meridians and cure all diseases."

It shows that using mugwort as a moxibustion material has the effects of dredging blood vessels, removing yin and cold, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and restoring yang and rescuing from adverse conditions. Modern pharmacology has discovered that mugwort contains a lot of volatile oil, including 1.8-cineole (accounting for more than 50%), and others include α-thujone, sesquiterpene alcohols and their esters. The air-dried leaves contain 10.13% minerals, 2.59% fat, 25.85% protein, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, etc. When using moxa leaves for moxibustion, generally speaking, the older the leaves, the better. Hence, there is a saying that “a seven-year illness requires three years of treatment with moxa” (Mencius).