Is mugwort effective in treating vaginitis?

Mugwort, also known as wormwood, has the effects of killing bacteria, disinfecting, regulating qi, relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation. Therefore, many inflammations and bacterial diseases are disinfected with mugwort. Some patients with female vaginitis will see common mugwort during the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. Mugwort water can clean the vagina, fumigate the vagina directly to the lesions, and eliminate fungi. In addition to using traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment of vaginitis should be combined with folk remedies.

Overview

Candidal vaginitis is a common disease among women. If you suffer from this disease, you may experience symptoms of physical discomfort and it may also cause a lot of embarrassment to women, because candidal vaginitis may cause local itching and odor in the vulva. In this case, you need to adjust your condition in time. You can use some Chinese medicine methods to treat candidal vaginitis, but some people use mugwort to treat this disease, and the effect is not obvious.

Steps/Methods:

1 Many people use mugwort fumigation to treat some gynecological diseases, but this method is better for the treatment of some diseases related to promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The effect of this method of treatment for a person at this distance is not obvious, so patients should not use some methods to treat diseases casually.

2 There are many treatments for candidal vaginitis. Sometimes it can be treated by applying Chinese medicine, but it is best to treat it through some vaginal medication methods. During the treatment, some gynecological medications can be taken orally to help the patient recover faster.

3 Under normal circumstances, during the treatment of candidal vaginitis, the body's immunity should be effectively adjusted, which is better for the treatment of the disease. The patient's normal life and work will not be affected during the treatment of candidal vaginitis.

Note:

Candidal vaginitis is a gynecological disease with a relatively high incidence rate. During the treatment of the disease, patients should not have too much psychological pressure, and it is best not to have sexual intercourse during treatment.

Nutritional value of wormwood

Modern pharmacology has discovered that mugwort contains a lot of volatile oil, including 1.8-cineole (accounting for more than 50%), and others include α-thujone, sesquiterpene alcohols and their esters. The air-dried leaves contain 10.13% minerals, 2.59% fat, 25.85% protein, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, etc. When using moxa leaves for moxibustion, generally speaking, the older the leaves, the better. Hence, there is a saying that “a seven-year illness requires three years of treatment with moxa” (Mencius). Mugwort is bitter, pungent and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, liver and kidneys. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Mugwort leaves are used as medicine, which are warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, purely yang in nature, and can pass through the twelve meridians. It has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and stabilizing the fetus, and is also commonly used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also called "medicinal herb". Most of the "herbal baths" that are popular in Taiwan use mugwort.

The efficacy of wormwood

Mugwort is bitter, dry and pungent in nature. It can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, and relieve cold pain. It is an important medicine for gynecology. It is used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, irregular menstruation, uterine cold and infertility, such as Ai Fu Nuan Gong Pills. Stir-fried charcoal can stop bleeding and can be used to treat excessive menstruation due to deficiency and cold, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and fetal bleeding during pregnancy, such as Jiao Ai Decoction. This product can be pounded into moxa sticks and moxa cones. External moxibustion can dispel cold, relieve pain, and warm Qi and blood. The decoction can be used for external washing to treat eczema, scabies, and eczema, and to relieve itching. Regarding the properties of mugwort, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Mugwort can cure all diseases." "Compendium of Materia Medica Congxin" says: "Mugwort is bitter and pungent, warm when raw, hot when cooked, and has a purely yang nature. It can restore the lost yang, connect the twelve meridians, run through the three yin meridians, regulate qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, and warm the uterus... Using it for moxibustion can penetrate all meridians and cure all diseases." This shows that using mugwort as a moxibustion material has the effects of dredging blood vessels, eliminating yin and cold, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and restoring yang and rescuing from adverse conditions.