Unexpected healing effects of mugwort eggs

Mugwort has many medicinal effects. Especially regularly eating wormwood eggs not only helps blood circulation, treats bone and joint diseases, physical weakness, but also regulates menstruation.

Delicious food that cures many diseases

Herbalist Hoang Duy Tan, former vice president of Dong Nai Oriental Medicine Association, said  mugwort is also known as wormwood, scientific name is Artemisia vulgaris L. , belongs to the chrysanthemum family.

Mugwort eggs - delicious treatment - (Illustration)

According to oriental medicine, mugwort has a bitter, spicy taste and warm properties, has the effect of expelling colds, warming menstruation, stopping bleeding, calming pregnancy. Treating cold and abdominal pain, diarrhea, tendon transfer, long-term dysentery, vomiting blood, blood orange, bloody stools, irregular menstruation, gonorrhea, vaginal discharge, restless fetus, ulcers, itchy scabies.

Mugwort is available all year round, but it is best to pick branches and leaves in June and dry them in the shade. Sometimes it is picked, dried, crushed, and sieved to get the white, loose hairs called velvet wormwood, used as bait to stimulate acupuncture points in acupuncture.

According to doctor Nguyen Van Thai - Military Institute of Radiation Medicine and Oncology, wormwood eggs are not only delicious food but also have the effect of curing many diseases.

1. Helps blood circulation : People who often suffer from dizziness and lightheadedness due to poor blood circulation are also advised to use wormwood. Wormwood leaves can be used as daily food, used to cook soup, fried eggs and eaten weekly to improve cerebral blood circulation.
2. Cure physical weakness: Mugwort is known in folk medicine as an extremely effective tonic. The leaves of the tree combined with lotus seeds and red apples, used to stew evil chicken, are a great nutritious dish that helps clear the blood, treat anorexia and physical weakness in people who have just recovered from illness or have been sick for a long time.
3. Treating bone and joint diseases : Thanks to its warm nature, mugwort is commonly used in remedies to treat bone and joint diseases.

The plant has the effect of helping blood circulation, enhancing blood circulation, good for the bone and joint system, reducing pain, anti-inflammatory, especially for people with spinal stenosis, rheumatism. You can crush mugwort to get it. juice mixed with honey to drink or puree to make a poultice.

1. Supports menstrual regulation: With its warm nature, Pomegranate is also used as an effective medicine in helping to reduce menstrual cramps and back pain. They are also a remedy to help regulate menstruation for those with irregular menstrual periods.
2. Helps stop bleeding: Ingredients in wormwood have good effects in helping to stop bleeding, anti-inflammation, antiseptic, pain relief. Thanks to that, this is an effective remedy for cases that require quick and urgent first aid. Especially in cases of injury, broken limbs, or snake bites.

Dishes and remedies with wormwood

Preparing fried eggs with wormwood - (Illustration).

In Oriental medicine, mugwort is used in many dishes - a remedy that is both nutritious and curative.

1. Mugwort soup cooked with lean meat: Remedy to treat women's diseases (irregular menstruation, vaginal discharge, abdominal pain due to cold.). Mince lean pork, marinate with seasoning, stir-fry, season with water, boil for wormwood. Soup boils well, season with seasoning to taste, serve hot.
2. Mugwort-coated chicken eggs : Helps circulate blood to the brain to treat headaches. Take a handful of wormwood leaves, chop them, beat them well with 1 egg, season with seasoning to taste, pour into the pan and fry until cooked.
3. Mugwort chicken: Improves health, stimulates blood flow, and strengthens bones: 1 black chicken about 500g, 3 red apples, hibiscus, goji berries, 3 slices of ginseng, wormwood, lotus seeds, Panax notoginseng, seasoning seeds. Clean the chicken, cut it open, stuff all the ingredients into the chicken, put the chicken in the pot, pour in water, season with seasoning to taste, stir-fry until the chicken is tender.
4. Mugwort porridge can cure miscarriage or relieve rheumatic pain: 50g fresh wormwood leaves, 100g plain rice, enough red sugar (can add lolot leaves). Chop the wormwood leaves and boil them in water to make porridge. When you eat sugar just right, served hot. Divide into 2 times for breakfast and lunch. Eat continuously for 3 - 5 days.
5. Helps with pregnancy: Pregnant women, if they have abdominal pain or bleeding, use 16g of wormwood leaves, 16g of perilla leaves, boil with 600ml of water, boil to 100ml, divide into 3 - 4 doses. day. Effective remedies safe pregnancy.
6. Exhausted people or breastfeeding mothers: Take 5 fresh (or dried) mugwort leaves, wash, chop, mix with a cup of boiling water, drink daily to quickly restore health.
7. Acne treatment: Crush fresh wormwood leaves, apply on your face, leave for about 20 minutes, then wash your face. Doing this continuously will give you smooth, pink-white skin.
8. Treating rashes, scabies, and heat rash in children: For young children who often get heat rash, grind wormwood leaves, filter the juice and mix it with the child's bath water. Do this continuously for a few days and the itchy spots will disappear.
9. Increase body health: Use lots of fresh or dried wormwood leaves, put them in a filter bag and let hot water run through them before flowing into the bathtub. Doing it this way will exfoliate, soften skin and calluses, help blood circulate more strongly, and soothe sore muscles and swollen or inflamed areas.
10. Irregular menstruation: Every month before the expected menstrual date and during the days of menstruation, take 10g of dried wormwood leaves and boil with 200ml of water, boil to 100ml, divide into 2 times a day. If it is difficult to drink, you can add a little seasoning. road.

People who should not eat wormwood

1. People with acute intestinal disorders: Mugwort is an effective diuretic and laxative. However, this effect will be detrimental to people with intestinal disorders, making the disease more severe and difficult to control. In addition, people with kidney stones are also recommended to stay away from wormwood.
2. Pregnant women in the first 3 months: Mugwort has a lot of content that leads to uterine contractions. If eaten in large quantities, it will lead to the risk of miscarriage.
3. People with hepatitis: Mugwort contains volatile essential oils. The essential oil in wormwood has medicinal effects but is also toxic. This substance will enter the liver and disrupt liver cell metabolism, causing acute hepatitis due to poisoning, jaundice, enlarged liver, cloudy urine.

People with hepatitis who regularly eat wormwood will have the disease become more severe and have many dangerous complications.

In addition, normal people should not eat wormwood regularly , they should only eat it 1-2 times a week. If you use too much wormwood, it can cause poisoning, even affecting the nervous system, leading to convulsions, paralysis.

For normal people, wormwood should not be used to make water, replacing it with green tea will cause negative effects on health.