Can mugwort be boiled and drunk to cure constipation?

Wormwood boiled water can not cure constipation. Chinese medicine treatment for constipation usually needs to be based on the type of evidence to identify the use of medication. Ai Velvet is dried and ground up from the leaves of moxa and is usually used externally as a material for moxibustion. Mugwort has the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding (warming the human body’s meridians, stopping bleeding in the body), dispersing cold and relieving pain (relieving pain by removing cold from the body), regulating menstruation, and stabilizing the fetus, and it is often used to treat various kinds of cold bleeding and cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen (the stomach, epigastrium, and abdomen feel cold and painful), but it is not generally used to treat constipation. Constipation can be recognized as cold constipation, hot constipation, gas constipation, etc., according to the different types of diagnosis and medication. Cold constipation is often treated with Wen Spleen Tang and Half Sulfur Pill, which contains medicines such as Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Rhubarb, and Dry Ginger to warm the body and disperse the cold to relieve constipation. Heat constipation is often treated with hemp seed kernel pill, which contains hemp seed kernel, peony, hedgehog, rhubarb, thick park, almonds and other medicines to drain heat and induce stagnation, lubricate the intestines and laxative. Qi constipation is often treated with Liumo Tang, which includes Shen Xiang, Mu Xiang, Betel nut, Citrus aurantium, etc. to smooth Qi stagnation, lowering the backwardness of the bowels. Constipation patients should consult a doctor in a timely manner, follow the doctor’s instructions standardized treatment, do not self-medication.