In summer, many rural families will pick wormwood for storage, what is the value of wormwood?

Wormwood has the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, dissipating cold and relieving pain, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, and external use to dispel dampness and relieve itching. Today, more and more attention is paid to the medicinal value of wormwood. Soaking your feet in dried mugwort leaves can promote the body's blood circulation, drive away moisture and cold in the body, and regulate yin and yang.

The application range of mugwort leaves is very wide, in the field of acupuncture, people make mugwort leaves into moxa wool, used to smoke moxibustion acupoints, through heat and the nature of its temperature can achieve the effect of warming qi and blood, penetrating the meridians. In terms of **, mugwort leaves are actually mainly able to ** deficiency and cold diseases.

The flavonoid chemicals contained in mugwort leaves can effectively anti-tumor, anticoagulant, antioxidant and other effects, in addition, artemisia leaves can dissolve antifibrin and reduce capillary permeability, so as to play a good role in hemostasis and anticoagulant effect, and studies have found that it has a very significant effect on hemostasis, and wormwood has the effect of dispelling cold. Wormwood soaked in water to wash the feet, can dehumidify** old cold leg arthritis, can also**heel pain caused by cold. Soak your feet in hot water with mugwort leaves, soak for about half an hour, during which you keep heating the water, soak until you sweat, and you also sweat at night, and the effect is good for several days.

One of the most suitable points of mugwort leaves is to repel mosquitoes. Living in a bungalow in the countryside, in the summer evening, the door and yard are full of mosquitoes, you can light the wormwood at night, and the smell of wormwood smoke can disperse the mosquitoes. Put mugwort leaves in the house during the day, you can smell the fragrance of mugwort when you enter the door, the permeability and moisturizing properties of mugwort leaves are very good, with magical nourishment and repair effects, can quickly promote blood circulation, activate epidermal cell regeneration, can promote the metabolism of senescent cells, especially suitable for repairing sensitivity ** and damage **.

The special aroma of wormwood contains elements that relieve fetal pain and comb qi and blood, which can promote the health of pregnant women and fetuses, and can achieve the effect of protecting the fetus and relieving pain. Wormwood contains a large amount of tannins, flavonoids, alcohols and other organic components, which can effectively help regulate the nutritional needs of the human body.

Wormwood is a perennial herb with yellow flowers and fragrant leaves, which can be used as medicine. It is also something that can be used in the lives of our people. For example, if a child has a pimple due to the wind, boil it with mugwort leaves.

Let the water warm and wash it. Rheumatism patients who continue to bathe with wormwood water (all year round) will also get better. Because wormwood has the effect of anti-inflammatory and warming tendons.

Although fresh mugwort leaves can be used to make a variety of rural delicacies, such as mugwort glutinous ba, mugwort egg cake, etc., but fresh mugwort is not suitable for long-term storage due to more water, and is easy to deteriorate and rot, so it is necessary to dehydrate the fresh mugwort picked, and the common method is to dry it in the sun and shade.

1.Medical value: It has the functions of warming menstruation, dispelling dampness, dissipating cold, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory, relieving asthma, antitussive, anti-allergic and so on.

2.Mugwort is dried and crushed into mugwort powder, which is a high-quality livestock and poultry feed additive. It can also be used as a natural plant dye.

The effect of wormwood is to warm menstruation and stop bleeding, dissipate cold and relieve pain, and stabilize the fetus. It has the best effect on bleeding syndrome, menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea, and fetal restlessness. It should be noted that mugwort is spicy and warm, so excessive or continuous consumption should be avoided, and those with yin deficiency and blood fever should avoid taking it.

<> the most famous Qi Ai (Qi Ai, a special product of Qichun County, Hubei Province, and a product of China's National Geographical Indication. It is the famous planting of wormwood, harvesting, fertilizing, harvesting, etc., generally 4-5 times, and the general time is to the end of autumn. When drying, choose a good sunny day and expose it to the sun for about 5 or 7 days, and you can save it.

If you encounter bad weather, you can also air dry it in a well-ventilated and cool place!

The harvesting time of wormwood is harvested before the Dragon Boat Festival, the harvesting before the Dragon Boat Festival is the end of the festival, and the harvest after the festival is grass, without the taste of wormwood, without medicinal properties, and without medicinal value. For rural areas, the Dragon Boat Festival is necessary to use mugwort, insert mugwort, cut mugwort soup, mugwort can be said to be the Dragon Boat Festival Fuju Mountain. The Dragon Boat Festival uses mugwort, and counting plums is also the season when mugwort is ripe, and the wormwood at this stage is the most prosperous, and the smell is also the strongest.

Wormwood is no stranger to many rural people, and can be found basically everywhere in the fields of the countryside. As a rural person, I knew about wormwood when I saw a small bundle of long wormwood hanging on my door and by the window during the Dragon Boat Festival every year. For our Hubei people, wormwood is not unfamiliar, in our Hubei, wormwood can be described as a household name, to the annual Dragon Boat Festival, every family cuts wormwood, every household dries wormwood, this is because of the Dragon Boat Festival hanging wormwood, usually use wormwood customs.

The use of mugwort leaves has a long history in China, mainly as moxibustion. That is, it is used as a traditional Chinese medicine to ** some arthritis and other symptoms are very beneficial, and the effect is also very obvious, which is the way of Chinese medicine in China, with a long history. Harvesting wormwood needs to be harvested around the Dragon Boat Festival, you can do an experiment yourself, which will get the wormwood leaves down to beat, or pound with stones, you can pound out the wormwood leaves, only the wormwood with wormwood is the most valuable wormwood, wormwood is the essence of moxibustion.

The lignification of stems and leaves is serious, and the medicinal value is reduced. Therefore, wormwood is suitable for harvesting around the Dragon Boat Festival. At this time, wormwood grows vigorously and vigorously, with leaves and stems, the highest medicinal components, and the best medicinal effects.

Can the wormwood picked now still be used?

Wormwood has the effect of promoting sleep, inhibiting bacteria, dispelling cold in warmth, regulating menstruation and stabilizing the fetus. And growing wormwood is also very simple, let's find out together.

Wormwood, also known as "Bingtai", "Artemisia", "Medical Herb", etc., is a perennial herbaceous plant, the plant has a strong aroma, the taproot is obvious, slightly thick and long, the diameter is up to centimeters, and the lateral roots are many. Wormwood is widely distributed, except for extremely arid and alpine areas, it can be seen almost everywhere. Mugwort has a close relationship with the life of Chinese, every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put mugwort at home to "ward off evil", dried plants soaked in water fumigation to achieve disinfection and itching, mothers often use mugwort water bathing or fumigation.

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that mugwort leaves are used in medicine, which is warm, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure yang, through the twelve meridians, has the effects of returning to yang, regulating qi and blood, chasing dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and stabilizing the fetus, and is also often used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also called "medical herb".

At the same time, wormwood is also a good food, in the traditional food of southern China, there is a kind of glutinous rice cake that is made with wormwood as the main ingredient. At the beginning of spring, the Hakka people in Ganzhou have the custom of collecting wormwood to make amy fruit. In Guangdong's Dongjiang River basin, locals harvest the leaves and buds of wormwood in winter and spring to eat as vegetables.

It is precisely because of the miraculous effects of wormwood that many people have the idea of planting wormwood. In fact, the vitality of wormwood is very tenacious, and wormwood does not have high requirements for the growth environment, so planting wormwood is a very simple thing. First of all, choose a plot with fertile and loose soil and good sunlight, and prepare and dry the field before planting to remove weeds and harmful bacteria in the ground.

Sowing is carried out around March in the spring of each year, and the bottom fertilizer should be sown in the plot before sowing, and at the same time to maintain soil moisture, you can choose to transplant wormwood seedlings, or you can choose to sow seeds. As long as you water it in time after planting, you can generally harvest the first wormwood in June every year.

Wormwood can be used to make rice crackers and become a delicacy. It also has medicinal properties, according to a certain method can be taken to ward off cold, heat and other effects, in addition, can also be used to make spices, fuel and pigments. There are many wild wormwoods in rural fields, and if they are to be cultivated artificially, they need to have natural conditions with suitable temperature and humidity, and reasonable fertilization should be carried out according to different growth periods.

It can achieve the effect of helping sleep, and then it can also promote blood circulation, and then it can also dredge the meridians and invigorate the blood; It is generally planted in the rural field, which can be seen everywhere, and it should be sown in early spring to choose Mr. Liu's cultivation, and then after the emergence of seedlings, it should be regularly loosened and weeded, and moist sandy soil should be selected.

Wormwood can not be picked all year round, the best harvest time is in late spring and early summer, the first stubble can be harvested at the end of April, and when picking wormwood, it is necessary to choose delicate leaves, rinse them in clean water, and then take out the wormwood, spread it in a cool, ventilated place to control the moisture, and finally store it.

Wormwood is not harvested all year round, mainly in spring and summer, at this time the leaves picked are more fragrant, ***, the leaves are delicate and contain more nutrients, if harvested in autumn and winter, it will make wormwood rot.

When harvesting wormwood, prepare a sharp sickle to cut from the root position of the plant, which is conducive to the continued growth of wormwood in the later stage, and after harvesting, the wormwood should be cleaned and placed in the semi-shade to dry.

After the wormwood is harvested, a sufficient amount of organic fertilizer and farmhouse fertilizer should be applied to the soil to supplement nutrients for the rhizome and promote the growth of seepage dust, and after the wormwood recovers growth, urea should be applied to improve the growth rate.

When planting wormwood, it is necessary to dig a ditch and ridge first, control the depth of the ditch and the width of the clump at about 20 cm, and add base fertilizer, and then plant the wormwood into the soil, water clean water, and make the root system grow firmly.

1. Wormwood should be picked in late spring and early summer, and the rhizomes that overwinter in the ground begin to germinate in early March every year, and the first stubble is harvested in late April, and 4 5 stubbles are harvested every year.

Second, the cultivation technology of wormwood:

1. In production, the main rhizome dividing is used for vegetative propagation, and it is necessary to pay attention to the time of dividing. But it can also be propagated by seeds. Seed propagation is generally carried out in March, and rhizome propagation is carried out in November.

2. Be cautious in site selection. The width of the furrow is about one meter, and the middle of the furrow is high and the two sides are low like the "fish back" type, so as not to accumulate water and cause diseases.

3. Be particular about fertilization. Before sowing, it is necessary to apply foot fertilizer, generally 4000 kg of rotten farmhouse fertilizer every 667 meters 2, deep ploughing and soil are fully evenly balanced, and sufficient bottom water is poured once after draining.

4. There are requirements for fertilizer. After each harvest, a certain amount of top dressing should be applied, and the top dressing is mainly decomposed of rare human and animal manure, and appropriately mixed with phosphorus and potassium fertilizer. Keep the soil moist during production.