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Can wormwood wash your face?
Artemisia argyi can wash your face. Washing your face or taking a bath with Folium Artemisiae Argyi is not only conducive to the prevention and treatment of colds and coughs, but also has a good therapeutic effect on eczema and folliculitis. Because wormwood can promote blood circulation and improve skin metabolism, frequent wormwood bath also has a good cosmetic effect. It is said that there is wormwood in the whitening bath studied by Cixi's physician.

If you accidentally catch a cold or get caught in the rain, take a bath with moxa sticks immediately after you get home, which can play a role in regulating qi and blood, expelling cold and dampness, and preventing colds. Take 50 ~ 100g of fresh wormwood, put it in the bathtub and soak it in boiling water for 5 ~ 10 minutes, then take it out and adjust it to the appropriate water temperature to take a bath. If it's too much trouble or you can't find fresh mugwort leaves, you can also go to the drugstore to buy some dried mugwort leaves to soak your feet.

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In addition to medicinal use, the edible value of Artemisia argyi leaves is also very high. Contains soft resin, volatile essential oil, glucose, tannic acid, potassium chloride, B vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and other mineral elements. But also contains a tannin component-Cataxin, which has the function of softening blood vessels. From the health point of view, cooking some dietetic health products with it can achieve the functions of nourishing the stomach, helping digestion, eliminating cold and dampness, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat and relieving cardiovascular diseases.

The benefits of eating wormwood are as follows:

1, treatment of gynecological diseases: wormwood can treat bleeding caused by a weak cold, and can well treat gynecological diseases such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and metrorrhagia.

2, antibacterial and antiviral: wormwood can inhibit and kill a variety of viruses and bacteria, can effectively prevent and treat respiratory diseases, and has obvious antibacterial and antiviral effects.

3, itching: washing the affected area with wormwood decoction can effectively cure scabies and relieve itching.

4. Asthma relieving: The liquid made of wormwood can effectively relax bronchi and relieve asthma, which is very suitable for people with cough.

5, hemostasis: wormwood extract can promote blood coagulation, has a good hemostatic effect, can be used as a common hemostatic.

6, cholagogic: the oil of wormwood leaves can increase bile flow, which has obvious cholagogic effect.

7, weight loss: roll it into a roll with wormwood leaves and ignite it with fire near Guanyuan and Fenglong points of the human body. Long-term persistence can effectively lose weight.

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