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drug nameMugwort
[Variety Source]

This product is the leaves of mugwort (Artemisia argyi Levl. et Vant.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. Produced in most parts of the country. The one produced in Qizhou, Hubei Province is the best and is called Qi Ai. In spring and summer, it is picked when the flowers are not blooming, dried and used raw or stir-frying to scorch. Pounded velvet is moxa velvet, which is the main material used in moxibustion.

[Property]

Bitter, pungent, warm. Returns to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians.

[Efficacy]

Warm menstruation and stop bleeding, dispel cold and regulate menstruation, calming fetus.

[Indications]

  1. It is used for bleeding caused by deficiency and cold, especially suitable for metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. This product can warm menstruation, stop bleeding and warm the uterus. Often used with Donkey-hide Gelatin, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, etc., such as Donkey-hide Gelatin and Artemisia Decoction; if paired with Join the brigade of blood-cooling hemostatics. It can also be used for bleeding due to heat in the blood, such as Four Fresh Ingredients Pill, which prevents excessive coldness and blood stasis, and can enhance the hemostatic effect.
  2. Used for lower energizer, menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrheal, uterine cold sterility, vaginal bleeding during pregnancy, threatened abortion, etc. caused by cold or uterus with appendages. This product can warm meridian and dissipating cold, regulate menstruation and relieve pain, and can stop bleeding and soothing fetus. To treat dysmenorrheal, menstrual irregularities, uterine cold sterility, etc., it is often used with Cyperus, Chinese Angelica, Cassia Bark, etc., such as Mugwort and Cyperus Uterus-Warming Pill; used to treat vaginal bleeding during pregnancy, threatened abortion, often used with Chuan Duan, Chinese Taxillus Herb Equivalent.
  3. In recent years, this product has been used to treat cold cough and asthma. It has the effects of relieving cough, dispelling phlegm and relieving asthma. It is made into an injection and injected into the mucosal membrane layer of hemorrhoids to treat internal hemorrhoids, which has certain curative effects.
  4. In addition, the decoction of this product can be used to treat eczema and cutaneous pruitus.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "Moxibustion can treat all kinds of diseases. It can be used as a decoction to stop diarrhea, hematemesis, sores in the lower part, fistula disease and blood in women. It can benefit yin and qi, build muscle, and ward off wind-cold , make people have children."
  2. "Medicinal Property Theory": "Stops metrorrhagia, calms fetus, stops abdominal pain, stops redness and white diarrhea and five Tibetan hemorrhoids and diarrhea."
  3. Bencao Gangmu : "warming the middle, cooling, dehumidifying."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g; appropriate amount for external use. To warm menstruation and stop bleeding, it should be used stir-frying to scorch; the remainder should be used raw. To treat cough and asthma, it is advisable to decoction to be decoctioned later.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product mainly contains volatile oil. Among them are eucalyptol, terpinenol-4, β-caryophyllene, etc. Inhalation of Mugwort oil has an antiasthmatic effect similar to that of isoproterenol, and has obvious antitussive and dispelling phlegm effects; Mugwort oil has an anti-allergic effect; decoction has a stimulant effect on isolated uterus in rabbits; water immersion agent and decoction have A variety of pathogenic bacteria and fungi have grade I inhibitory effects, and fumigants have obvious antibacterial effects.

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