Benefits: During the flu season, fumigating your home with mugwort leaves once or twice a week can reduce the number of common pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi, thereby effectively preventing various respiratory infections. occurrence of disease. Smoking 5-10 grams of moxa leaves (or 1 moxa stick) for 30-60 minutes per 10 square meters can kill and inhibit influenza viruses to varying degrees.
In addition, mugwort smoke has been widely used in ancient times. Many ancient documents have records about the treatment and prevention of diseases by mugwort smoke. For example, "Zhuangzi" in the Spring and Autumn Period has a record of "Yue people smoked mugwort with mugwort". Kong Fanzhi's "Ai Fu" also recorded that "a sudden illness of mugwort caused a sudden illness, and the whole body was exhausted and smoked". It can be seen that at that time, the people were already using mugwort leaves. Smoking was used to treat and prevent disease.
Extended information:
The "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" describes the disinfection effect of moxa smoke and believes that moxa leaf smoke is effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and aeruginosa. Pseudomonas has a significant sterilization effect, and its effect is better than that of ultraviolet light. Smoking mugwort leaves can form a film of airborne medicinal molecules indoors, and the hanging mugwort leaves also have a disinfecting effect;
The volatile substances contained in mugwort leaves can also form a natural disinfectant gas curtain in the air around the human body, which is breathed in Bacteria and viruses that systematically invade the human body are most likely to accumulate in the sinus cavities and throat. The natural bactericidal and antiviral components in mugwort can form a "medicine film" in the sinus cavities, larynx and trachea to accumulate a large amount of antibodies to achieve sterilization, sterilization, and prevention. The effect of contracting the disease.
Modern research shows that moxa smoke has an air disinfection effect. Moxa smoke, traditional Chinese medicine disinfectant, and ultraviolet irradiation were used for indoor disinfection. The number of bacteria per cubic meter was measured and counted. The results showed that the three air disinfection effects were the same. .
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