Mugwort is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine for the plant Ai of the Asteraceae family. Drinking water with mugwort has the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding (warming the human body’s meridians and stopping bleeding in the body), dispersing cold and relieving pain (relieving pain by dispelling cold in the body), but the efficacy of drinking water with mugwort is limited.
Mugwort is pungent, bitter, warm, slightly toxic, and belongs to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians, with the effect of warming menstruation to stop bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain. It is used to treat excessive menstruation, fetal leakage (a small amount of vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy), blood, cold pain in the abdomen (abdomen), and cold menstrual irregularities.
Mugwort is suitable for patients with deficiency-cold bleeding and cold-congealed blood.
It may aggravate the condition if taken by patients with yin deficiency and blood heat, such as aggravating the symptoms of dry mouth and thirst, and heat in the hands and feet, so it is forbidden to be used by those with yin deficiency and blood heat.
Mugwort can also be used with other traditional Chinese medicines in traditional Chinese medicine formulas, and can also be made into moxa sticks for smoking and moxibustion or pounding. It is recommended that patients use mugwort in water, follow the doctor’s instructions, to avoid blind use of drugs to cause adverse consequences.