Mugwort - a dish with high medicinal properties

Mugwort is effective in treating osteoarthritis, relieving pain and sedation. Mugwort egg dish supports blood circulation to the brain.

Mugwort is a species of asteraceae, scientific name Artemisia vulgaris , also known as rescue medicine, wormwood, wormwood . The wormwood leaves are narrow-shaped, with pointed heads and dark green leaves on the leaves. the underside is covered with white velvet fur. Mugwort has a very bitter taste, but the smell is fragrant and because of its warmth, it has been used as a medicine in Eastern medicine for generations.

Doctor Bui Dac Sang said wormwood is not only a spice plant but also a medicine, especially effective in treating osteoarthritis, relieving pain and sedation. The wormwood is characterized by bitterness. True bitterness and mugwort essential oil against effective gastric ulcers, diuretic, laxative.

In traditional medicine documents, wormwood containing tamin , anti-edema effect, mineol against fibrosis, relieving pain and softening tendon, thyon has the effect of stimulating muscle tendons, ligaments to help recover move. In addition, mugwort also has a stimulating and muscle-enhancing effect on the body because it contains thujone, tanacetone, azulene and cadinene. Mugwort tea regularly has circulating effects, reducing inflammation and fighting many diseases.

Histamine and acetylcholin in dried mugwort are often used in antibiotics, analgesics and sedatives. Therefore, people often use wormwood smoke to cure headache, sedation, pain relief. Mugwort essential oil has antibacterial effects on pneumococci, tubercle bacilli and some other strains of bacteria.

Mugwort eggs are delicious and nutritious food.

Medications from mugwort

Before a week of menstruation, confiscate mugwort or mix mugwort with boiling water like tea, drink 3 times a day, help regulate menstruation and relieve menstrual cramps.

300g of mugwort washed, pounded to make water, mix with two spoons of honey, drink twice a day, reduce joint pain, sciatica, back pain .

A mixture of mugwort leaves, grapefruit leaves, pickled eucalyptus leaves with boiled water boiled for 15 minutes, sedative.

In particular, the egg dish with the mugwort is well cooked by many people because it is both appetizing and supporting blood circulation to the brain. If wormwood fried with chicken eggs too bitter, young children do not like to eat, can boil eggs with mugwort.

People should not use wormwood leaves

According to the physician, because the drug is too high, wormwood sometimes has side effects if used too much.Pregnant women in the first trimester of pregnancy, people with hepatitis, people with acute intestinal disorders, people with coronary atherosclerosis, who have kidney stones, should not use much. Mugwort can also cause an allergic reaction in some patients who are allergic to Asteraceae plants such as chrysanthemum, ragweed, birch grass, carrot or celery.

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