On the Qingming Festival again, the fragrance of wormwood is everywhere. Qingming is the time when wormwood grows best, tastes the most tender, and has the most potent effects.
A wormwood can be eaten, worn and used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine calls wormwood < span>“Diamond in the grass”, from the fresh leaves to the dried rhizomes, all have good health care and even healing effects.
Qingming food, In addition to making it into a green ball, you might as well try these recipes Planting wormwood in a fancy way, symptomatic treatment, better health effect!
“Compendium of Materia Medica” records that wormwood is the grass of pure yang. Artemisia argyi is bitter and pungent in nature, warm in nature, and belongs to the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians, and has the functions of regulating qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, warming the meridians and relieving pain, and promoting abortion.
It can also help regulate long-term diarrhea caused by deficiency of the spleen and stomach , the second can recuperate Yang deficiency and fear cold, and the third can adjuvant treatment of acute redness, swelling, heat and pain.
1< /span>Food: Mugwort Egg
Oral use of Artemisia argyi has the effects of warming the meridians and dispelling cold, supporting uprightness, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness. It is more suitable for people with deficiency of cold constitution, such as chills, cold hands and feet, and unformed stools. It also has a certain relieving effect on cold dysmenorrhea.
< span>Materials:10 grams of wormwood, 10 eggs, 3-5 slices of ginger.
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①Wash the wormwood and ginger into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, Simmer for another 25 minutes, filter after the ceasefire, and take the medicinal juice for later use. Eggs are pre-cooked, peeled and scratched for later use.
②Put the filtered concoction and peeled eggs into the pot and cook for 5-10 minutes.
2< /span>Wear: Artemisia sachet
Different from tender mugwort that is made into food, mature mugwort leaves that are older, Higher concentration of volatile oils suitable for mosquito repellants.
Zhao Jiping, Director, Department of Acupuncture, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tell us, Artemisia argyi can be worn in sachets and sachets. It has the effect of refreshing the mind, and aromatizing the turbidity. It is suitable for people with some humidity and dizziness. people.
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3Bubble: Foot Soak in Artemisia Leaf Water
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If the physique of middle-aged and elderly people is deficient and cold, usually a little tired, empty, and cold hands and feet, you can try soaking your feet with mugwort water or taking a bath, there are The function of Wentong meridian.
Usage:30 grams of mugwort leaves(Chen mugwort leaves are better) add 1-2 slices of ginger and boil, then remove the leaves and soak your feet or bath with water. Usually As a daily health care, the usage of Artemisia argyi can be reduced.
Contraindications: Not recommended for people with excess heat syndrome. The symptoms of excess heat syndrome include burning eyes, sores on the mouth and tongue, heavy breath, dry stool, foul smell, bad temper, etc.
4Moxibustion: Moxibustion
“The family has three years of Ai, and the bro does not use it”. In Li Shizhen’s hometown of Qichun, mugwort leaves can be said to be a must-have health care product for every household.
The picked leaves should be processed, dried and placed for 3-5 years In order to become Chen Ai, and then pounded into moxa velvet, it can be used for moxibustion. The older it gets, the milder the firepower, and the more comfortable the skin feels during moxibustion.
Moxibustion mainly includes Disease prevention and health care, warming the meridians and dredging collaterals, strengthening the yang, removing blood stasis and dissipating knots, and attracting heat for laymen. With different acupoints and moxibustion, the effects are also different. Moxibustion on specific acupoints should be in accordance with the doctor’s advice.
NOT:When the stool is dry, the mouth is bitter, and the symptoms of the whole body are particularly obvious, it is generally not recommended to do moxibustion on the whole body. Do not moxibustion every day for a long time.
5< /span>compress: promote blood circulation and relieve pain, relieve hand numbness and cervical spondylosis
After bowing my head for a long time, I always feel uncomfortable in the cervical spine, which may lead to dizziness and hand numbness. This may indicate that you have some cervical spondylosis. The carotid artery is near the cervical spine. A poor cervical spine may affect the blood supply to the brain, resulting in dizziness, numbness, neck and shoulder pain and other symptoms.
For patients with cold and numb hands and cervical spondylosis, China Wen Jianmin from the Second Department of Orthopedics and Joint Innovation, Wangjing Hospital, Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences shared the “Ai vinegar hot compress soup” to help warm the meridians, promote blood circulation and relieve pain.
< span>Materials:30g of wormwood, 300ml of vinegar, 100ml of 53-degree liquor.
Usage: Put the wormwood in 300ml white vinegar and soak it for 1 hour, then boil it on low heat for 10 minutes, then add 100ml 53 degree white wine, filter the residue to 40 After the temperature is about 100 degrees, take a small square towel and apply it to the neck for 20 to 30 minutes a day.
Tomb-sweeping Day is also indispensable for eating Qingtuan. During the Qingming holiday, the family gathers around the table to make and eat Qingtuan, and the whole family is happy~
The editor also shared two youth league practices here, one is < strong>Sweet, one is Salty, I don’t know which flavor your family likes to eat What?
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Ingredients: 500g glutinous rice flour, 50g sticky rice flour, 300g pickles, Wormwood 50g, bamboo shoots 150g, meat 150g.
Practice:
1. Wash the wormwood with clean water and boil the water in the pot , add a spoonful of salt, put the wormwood into the simmering water. Immediately remove the wormwood that has been blanched in water, rinse with cold water, and then pour it into a blender and mix it into a paste;
2. Chop bamboo shoots, pickles, and meat, and add oil Stir fry in the pan, add appropriate amount of seasoning, and set aside for later use;
3. Add boiling water and wormwood paste into the two kinds of flour, and pour the water while stirring. , After the flour becomes lumps, knead it into a smooth dough by hand; Add the stuffing and steam it in a pot.
2< /span>Sweet Youth League
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Traditional Qingtuan is colored with maiqing or mugwort juice. If you can’t buy it, you can use Malantou, spinach , green vegetables, chrysanthemum can be used instead, as long as you like it.
Ingredients: Artemisia argyi, Glutinous rice, clear noodles, lard, egg yolk, sugar, red beans, hot water, kiwi.
< span>Practice:
1. Juice from argyi leaves. Wash the mugwort leaves and blanch them in water, put them in a food processor and squeeze the juice for later use;
2. Kneading. Take a large bowl, add glutinous rice flour and clear noodles (ratio 2:1), add an appropriate amount of lard and mugwort juice, and mix well with the noodles first. Then add an appropriate amount of sugar, boiled water and mix well, then add 15 grams of lard;
< strong>3. Steam the dough. Take a large plate, grease the bottom of the plate, spread the prepared dough on the plate, put it into the steamer and steam for 20 minutes;
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4. Adjust the fillings (you can choose the fillings freely). Here I share the practice of egg yolk meat floss stuffing and kiwi bean paste stuffing.
①Egg floss stuffing with egg yolk: Heat oil in a hot pan, add salted egg yolks and stir until fragrant, cook in cooking wine, add appropriate amount of cooking oil, stir-fry until spit and turn sand, add Turn off the heat, use the remaining heat to stir fry evenly, and take it out for later use.
②Kiwi bean paste filling: soak the red beans, boil them on a low heat until the red beans bloom, use a food processor to blend them finely, put them in a pot, add sugar and fry until the water dries up . Then roll the bean paste filling into small balls and add sliced kiwi to the filling.
5. Bao Qingtuan. Steam the green balls and take them out, wash them with hands, knead them evenly while hot, roll them into long strips, and cut them into evenly sized doses. Knead it into a cake bowl, wrap it in salted egg yolk or red bean paste, and knead it into a small ball~
Actually, there are two ways to make Qingtuan: one is to wrap it first and then steam it;
The chef of Yangshengtang recommends the second one, using The steamed glutinous rice is beaten/kneaded by hand, the green balls are more chewy, quick and convenient, and the finished product is soft and elastic.