Mugwort and eggs are a good herbal food to warm the palace

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　　Recently, a post has circulated on the Internet that eating mugwort leaves and eggs can help pregnancy. That is to boil mugwort leaves, eggs and brown sugar in water and eat them. The poster claims that this method can help pregnancy. Experts point out that there is no record in the pharmacopoeia that moxa leaf can help with pregnancy, so it should not be followed blindly.

    Yin Zhichao, a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out that mugwort leaves are Gynecology Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines have the effect of warming the uterus. Among Chinese patent medicines, there are also drugs such as moxa leaf warm palace pills, which are used to treat irregular menstruation. However, there is no record in the pharmacopoeia that moxa leaf has the effect of assisting pregnancy and anti-fetus. However, Yin Zhichao also pointed out that if female It is because of infertility caused by uterine cold syndrome. Regular consumption of moxa leaves can warm the uterus, which indirectly cures infertility.

    In addition, during the confinement period, mothers can ask their family members to help them wash their hair and take a bath with moxa leaves boiled in water, which has the effects of regulating qi and blood, removing cold and dampness, stopping bleeding, sleeping, and warming menstruation. Using moxa leaves as a medicinal pillow or fumigation can also prevent diseases.

　　Don’ts:

　　Use with caution in those with yin deficiency and blood heat.

　　①"Compendium": Bitter wine and Cyperus rotunda are used for it.

　　②"Compendium of Materia Medica": It is contraindicated for patients with blood heat.

　　③"Ben Jing Feng Yuan": It is contraindicated in patients with yin deficiency and excessive fire, dryness of blood causing heat, and chronic hemorrhagic diseases.