ài cǎo．Mugwort．Wormwood．Artemisia

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Chinese culture and Taiwanese customs have highly praised the powerful super plant of wormwood since ancient times. The main reason is that it has a wide range of applications and can meet the needs of many kinds of life. Especially in ancient times, many diseases are caused by germs, miasma, and Insect damage is caused, so plants like wormwood that can purify, sterilize, and strengthen are of great economic value and are widely planted and used.

Wormwood has excellent pharmacological effects, which is referred to as "medicine herb" in Chinese medicine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty: "Wormwood's property is warm while it's fresh/raw and becomes hot after cooking. Generally it's a "pure Yang" material.

Wormwood is a very good plant, non-toxic, bitter and pungent, and it is used for the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians. It can be used in vegetables (wormwood fried eggs) to make snacks (caozi cakes, wormwood cakes).

The "Fen Tu Zhi" of the Jin Dynasty records that human-shape wormwood and tiger-shape wormwood can drive away evil spirits.

Tang Dynasty Meng Xu's "Diet Therapy Materia Medica": Eating wormwood dishes can "cure all ghosts and evil spirits."

Folks use wormwood baths and smoke wormwood leaves to eliminate evil spirits. Soaking hot mugwort leaf water can also help sleep, relieve fatigue, eliminate beriberi, diaper rash in children and other skin and surface problems. If you are shocked or disturbed, the fiery masculinity of the wormwood can also suppress evil spirits. Boiling in a bath or directly burning incense can resolve and help stabilize the mind.

Wormwood is a representative and important crop in China. Moxibustion therapy is popular among folks. Moxa sticks made of moxa are used to burn acupuncture points. The processed wormwood raw materials are also made into household goods such as soap, ink pad, natural pigments, mattresses, pillows, and warm packs.

The dried wormwood is easy to burn, and its smoke is especially effective for mosquitoes! Using wormwood to deal with mosquitoes can be said to be "a piece of cake". If there are mosquitoes indoors, as long as a handful of fumigated wormwood, the mosquitoes will run away immediately, and they will not be disturbed by mosquitoes for at least three hours. Burn wormwood with safe materials (thick clay or metal) and a deeper container to prevent sparks from dispersing, and open windows to keep indoor ventilation. The smell of wormwood smoke is relatively strong, but it does not make you groggy and uncomfortable. The smell of staying indoors will disappear within a few hours, so there is no need to worry about the smell.

Cold winters, cold physique, cold hands and feet, and women’s physiological cold problems... all can use the "sun heat" characteristics of wormwood. It can become an alternative energy material, reduce energy consumption, and also benefit the green environment and nursed back to health. Body and mind.

During the epidemic, some scholars studied the active ingredient of Artemisinin (Artemisinin) contained in Artemisia annua (Artemisia annua), a species of wormwood, which belonged to the compound of "sesquiterpene lactones" and also contained minerals-zinc , Gallium, selenium. In the specific experimental conditions mode , the anti-bacterial, anti-viral, immunomodulatory, anti-fibrosis, cardiovascular effects. [ ●→Thesis link ] 
The compound formulated with artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin is an anti-plasmodium drug, which has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015 [ ●→ Wikipedia 1 ． Wikipedia 2 ]。

Another feature of wormwood is that it can withstand long-term storage. As long as the wormwood has been washed and dried, it can be stored for three to five years. The wormwood that has been tempered over time is also called "Chen Ai". It is usually made into moxa and then aged. The good quality Chen Ai Moxa sticks are very precious. They are not only fragrant and moist, but also have better therapeutic effects.

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