Folium Artemisiae Argyi: the legendary holy medicine of palace cold

Among thousands of herbs, wormwood is probably the most widely used Chinese herbal medicine among the people. Many people's understanding of it begins with the long wormwood hanging on the door every year during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Wormwood can detoxify.

Every May, the weather gets warmer, rainfall increases, mosquitoes breed and infectious diseases increase. Therefore, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is called "the month of all poisons". Prevention is the key to frequent epidemics. In this season, wormwood has become the first choice for epidemic prevention and health care.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household inserts moxa sticks and calamus on the door eyebrows, or weaves mugwort leaves and calamus into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. Or make beautiful garlands and ornaments to wear, which are fragrant and attractive and used to drive away cockroaches. "On the afternoon of May 5th, Shi Tian rode Ai Hu. When you see the centipede, the insects return to the underworld. " It is said that Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus can repel all kinds of insects and eliminate diseases. It is found that fumigation of mugwort leaves, mugwort sticks or mugwort sticks can kill or inhibit a variety of germs and can be used for indoor disinfection. In the TV series "Hundred Herbs China", 76-year-old Hu Laobo lit wormwood, gently closed the door, and let the burning wormwood fumigate the room to remove filth and prevent epidemic.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is often used to make sachets. Hu Qingyutang, Fang Huichuntang, Tongrentang, Tongjuntang ... Every Dragon Boat Festival, Yiguang will launch a special sachet with its own formula. The pattern design is ingenious and innovative every year, but the same is the aromatic herbs such as Artemisia argyi, Acorus calamus and Angelica dahurica. The beautiful appearance attracts the public's attention, but people pay more attention to the essence of disease-removing and health care, and so do children. After my niece got the sachet I gave her, she immediately put it on her chest and said happily, "bugs won't bite me!" " "

Artemisia argyi contains volatile oil, which is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug. It can inhibit and kill a variety of viruses and bacteria, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases. My colleagues Dang Juxing and Yu Zeng extracted oil from wormwood and studied its effective components for the prevention and treatment of chronic bronchitis, and achieved results.

Moxibustion eliminates chronic diseases

After drying the folium Artemisiae Argyi, put it into a mortar and tamp it repeatedly, and remove the stem, you can get the important raw material of moxibustion-moxa sticks. Acupuncture therapy is a commonly used subject in Yiguang Hospital, and it is also a medical method that can really make Artemisia argyi shine.

People who often go to acupuncture will be familiar with that Ai Xiang. After burning the moxa stick, it gives off a strong and unique smell, and some people feel at ease and some people are excited. However, under the fumigation of moxa sticks, those pains quietly fled.

As for moxibustion, our ancestors tried many kinds of medicinal materials, and after careful selection and careful consideration, they chose Ailai as the basic material of moxibustion. Not only ai, but also. Li Shizhen said: "Whoever uses mugwort leaves must use them for a long time, and the treatment is soft and delicate, which is called ripe mugwort leaves. If you are born, moxibustion and fire will easily hurt your bones and muscles. " This is actually aimed at moxibustion, but because of this rhetoric, Ai Chen is the first choice for future generations to soak their feet and put pillows.

Now many patients like to ask, doctor, do you think I can do moxibustion with this constitution? In my opinion, most people are actually suitable.

Nowadays, urban men and women like to drink iced drinks, blow air conditioners, go barefoot, and remember to say that they are suffering from yang deficiency and palace cold. At this time, they can often get one or two acupoints from dispelling cold and dampness, and moxibustion plays this role.

With the popular rhetoric of "palace cold", various mugwort foot-soaking bags, mugwort warm palace bags and mugwort sachets are popular, but it seems that every woman should have palace cold, but whoever uses mugwort leaves in palace cold shows the important position of mugwort leaves in the hearts of ordinary people today.

I did make a Chinese-style belly pocket with mugwort as the main material, which was specially used to dispel the cold in the abdomen and treat intractable stomachache, low back pain and dysmenorrhea, and the effect was really good.

There are also many "cold-blooded men and women" who cry all the year round that their hands and feet are cold. You can also try to put the boiled moxa in a cloth bag and put it in shoes and socks to warm your feet.

But Chinese medicine pays attention to treating symptoms, and I will never encourage patients to treat diseases blindly with mugwort leaves. For some diseases with mixed cold and heat, I often indicate that mugwort leaves are wrapped separately when prescribing medicine. The method is: I suggest that the patient decoct the medicine himself, the first two times, and the third time, add wormwood leaf. At this time, the obtained medicinal juice can be used for external washing or soaking, which can often improve the therapeutic effect.

In the documentary, Han, the inheritor of moxa therapy, cured Ms. Xu's tearlessness with moxibustion. This is not to say that moxibustion can treat eye diseases, but through strict diagnosis and syndrome differentiation, we can accurately find the meridians blocked by blood stasis in the human body, and get through them through the characteristics of mugwort leaves, so as to expel the lesions from the body, and the appearance of eye diseases will be cured. Therefore, Han Jiang chose Yongquan, Sanyinjiao and other lower limb acupoints for moxibustion, which played the role of inducing fire to return to the source, soothing the liver and relieving depression, thus curing stubborn diseases in just one month.

The ancients said: acupuncture is not done, moxibustion is appropriate. At present, the combination of acupuncture and moxibustion is mostly used in medical treatment: firstly, acupuncture points are selected for treatment, and then a burning moxa stick is added at the needle handle to increase the effect of acupuncture, which is warm acupuncture. Moxibustion box or moxibustion can be placed directly on the skin that has been pricked by needles, and the effect can be doubled when acupuncture is carried out at the same time.

But if you use it at home, you won't choose needles, and you can buy moxibustion box directly. Nowadays, most businesses are considerate. When buyers use moxibustion clothes, they often wear a bandage. Fix the bandage on the part needing moxibustion, then put the lighted moxa stick into the moxibustion box, and put the moxibustion box into the reserved position in the bandage. It's safe and convenient, and you can move freely. You can also adjust the posture and moxibustion position at any time. It can be said that it is a must-have product at home.

Take medicine, regulate menstruation, and send children.

Under the influence of Gong Dou drama for many years, we not only know that safflower can have an abortion, but also know that fumigation can protect the fetus. Therefore, we all know that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a kind of medicine that can stop bleeding and dispel cold blindly, so it has become a commonly used medicine in gynecology.

Yan Hui in Materia Medica says that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a medicine for warming blood, dredging collaterals, promoting qi circulation and relieving depression. Open and close the orifices to awaken all diseases of sinking, dryness, hiding and closing. If qi and blood, phlegm and accumulation are diseases, asthma, bone swelling, paralysis, carbuncle, tuberculosis and other diseases, moxibustion will begin to sink. If taken orally, Pill Powder Decoction can warm the middle warmer, remove dampness, dredge meridians and strengthen uterus, so it is often used in women's prescriptions. For example, "Aifu Warm Palace Pill" is the holy medicine for giving birth to children, which has cured many women who are really cold in the palace.

In addition, there are metrorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, bleeding during pregnancy and various menstrual disorders, almost all of which are indispensable. I had a brief discussion with several gynecologists, and I'm afraid Artemisia argyi and Leonurus japonicus are the two most common drugs in their prescriptions.

My common gynecological prescription for treating infertility is Jiao Tangai, which is a classic prescription in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber. I often use it as the main prescription of ointment, and the clinical effect is quite good.

According to the characteristics that many young people like to use essential oil now, modern science has refined mugwort leaves into mugwort oil. Its efficacy continues the most important feature of menstruation regulation, and it can also treat skin allergy or itching in autumn: it can be applied to the affected area like essential balm. If the child has prickly heat, you can also apply some oil of Artemisia argyi on the prickly heat, and the effect of removing prickly heat is also good.

It's delicious and sultry when you eat it.

This documentary introduces Aiwowo, a classic pasta in Qichun, Li Shizhen's hometown. This is the same idea as those green meatballs and glutinous rice balls that we ate in Tomb-Sweeping Day, that is, eating mugwort leaves in another way for health care.

I can't forget picking wormwood to make green cakes when I was a child. Every year, a few days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, we pick wormwood with baskets, take it back to home and blanch it with boiling water to make green cakes. Often after dinner, my mother will take out glutinous rice flour after putting away chopsticks, mix it with cold boiled water, steam it in a cage, pour it into a mortar, add wormwood, pound it repeatedly until it is completely rotten and dissolved in rice flour, and then seal it with cakes and brand it with the words Fu Lushou. Early the next morning, take the cake and steam it as a tribute to the ancestors; And the breakfast that day must be a sweet green cake. That kind of special cake with Ai Qing has a unique and provocative fragrance, which is unforgettable.

Wormwood is also often used as a raw material for dietotherapy. For example, fry eggs with mugwort leaves, wash mugwort leaves, chop them, add eggs, stir them evenly, add salt and pepper, and fry cooked food in an oil pan. Another example is mugwort balls. Chop the meat and mugwort leaves separately and mix well. Add proper amount of salt, Jiang Mo, peanut oil, corn starch and egg white, mix well, and process into meatballs or patties, or cook, fry or steam. Both have appetizing effects. With this dish, you may eat more.

In addition, wormwood leaf ginger egg flower soup and wormwood leaf gum porridge can be called medicated diet, which is used for disease-removing and health care. The former uses Folium Artemisiae Argyi 15g, 5 slices of ginger and 2 eggs. When making, put the mugwort leaf into a gauze bag and put it in a pot with ginger slices for 3 minutes. Add eggs instead of mugwort and ginger and cook for 2 minutes. The latter uses 20 grams of donkey-hide gelatin, dried mugwort leaves 10 grams, and brown sugar 1 spoon. The method is as follows: firstly, put the dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi into 3 bowls of clear water for 20 minutes, and then pour out the medicine juice; Mash Colla Corii Asini, add it to the medicinal juice, cook until it is completely dissolved, add brown sugar, mix well, and drink while it is hot. Both of them have the effects of warming channels, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and are suitable for people with deficiency-cold constitution, cold hands and feet, and cold pain in the lower abdomen to get rid of diseases and health care, but they have regulating and treating effects on women's irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea. (stone) according to