What are the effects and benefits of Mugwort

Mugwort leaves have the effect of warming the menstruation, dispersing cold, stopping bleeding, calming asthma, relieving pain, and can be used externally to dispel dampness and relieve itching. The leaves are dried and crushed to obtain “moxa floss”, which can also be used to make moxa sticks for moxibustion. Mugwort leaves can be used to treat vomiting of blood, epistaxis, metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or more than a few drops), excessive menstruation, fetal leakage of blood, cold pain in the abdomen, irregular menstrual cycles, cold uterus and infertility; and externally to treat itching of the skin. Vinegar moxa charcoal warms menstruation and stops bleeding (warms the body’s meridians and stops bleeding in the body), used for cold bleeding and so on. Mugwort herb can be used as medicine, boiled water bath can be used to prevent and control puerperium mother and child infections, or pharmaceutical pillows, medicinal undershirts and so on. Wormwood has a certain medicinal value, when the use of wormwood for the treatment of disease should not be used blindly on their own, should be under the guidance of a physician to correctly use wormwood.