Mugwort is commonly used for its leaves, which can be decocted and taken internally or used externally.
1. Decoction for internal use: mugwort leaves, flavor pungent, bitter, warm, with a small poison. Mugwort leaves warm can disperse cold, for warm menstruation to stop bleeding medicine, can treat cold bleeding cases; this product can also warm the uterus, cold pain, good at regulating menstruation, for the treatment of gynecological lower focal cold or cold guest uterus of the important medicine.
2. External: mugwort leaves are pungent, bitter and dry, local decoction and external wash has the function of eliminating dampness and relieving itching, treatment of eczema, itching and other itching of the skin; can also be made into moxa sticks or cones, for moxibustion, can warm the blood and qi, penetrate the meridians.
Chinese medicine, whether taken internally or externally, should be accurately applied under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis, and should not be used on their own.