Can I eat mugwort after giving birth?

Women are relatively weak right after giving birth. At this time, they need to take a confinement month to supplement nutrition and regulate their bodies. They can eat some nourishing foods, such as eggs, chicken soup, spare ribs, pig's trotter soup and other foods. At the same time, they must not catch a cold during the confinement month to avoid postpartum diseases. Mugwort is an edible plant. Can you eat mugwort after giving birth? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Can I eat mugwort after giving birth?

It is suitable for eating. Postpartum women can eat mugwort in moderation. Confinement belongs to the puerperium, and the first 30 days of the puerperium are confinement. Mugwort can be eaten and used externally during the confinement period. Mugwort can reduce capillary permeability. Women with persistent lochia can eat mugwort to achieve a hemostatic effect. Fumigation with mugwort leaves, mugwort or mugwort sticks can achieve the effect of disinfection and antibacterial indoors. Fumigation with mugwort water also has a certain therapeutic effect on women with postpartum urinary retention. Puerperal infection is a common disease after childbirth. Steam bath with mugwort liquid can prevent and treat puerperal infection.

2. The benefits of eating and fumigating moxa leaves during confinement are as follows:

1. Prevent puerperal infection

The main systemic manifestations of puerperal infection are fever, with body temperature exceeding 39°C, accompanied by abdominal pain and abnormal lochia. Studies have shown that regular steam bathing with decoction of moxa leaves can effectively treat puerperal infection, has high safety, and is worthy of clinical promotion. For patients with episiotomy, decoction of mugwort leaves can be used to prevent and treat perineal wound infection.

2. Relieve cold pain in the lower abdomen

Mugwort belongs to the spleen meridian and has the effect of warming the meridians and relieving pain. For women who experience cold pain in the lower abdomen during confinement, moxa sticks, moxa wool, and moxa leaves can be used for fumigation to relieve the cold pain in the lower abdomen.

3. Notes

It is not advisable to take mugwort in excess. Mugwort soup is used to treat gynecological blood diseases. Clinical practice has confirmed that mugwort should not be taken in large quantities, and excessive intake will cause toxic side effects. Excessive consumption of mugwort can over-excite the central nervous system and may cause heavy uterine bleeding.

4. Nutritional value

Artemisia argyi is the dried leaves of the perennial herb Artemisia argyi of the Asteraceae family. It tastes bitter, pungent and warm in nature. It enters the spleen, liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of warming the meridians and blood, dispelling cold and relieving pain, calming the fetus and stopping bleeding, removing phlegm, drying dampness and relieving itching. Its effect of drying dampness and relieving itching is widely used during the confinement period.