Beautify skin with mugwort, women should know

Mugwort is a traditional Vietnamese medicinal herb. In addition to its effects of stopping bleeding, enriching blood, regulating menstruation, and treating colds, it also has the effect of treating skin diseases and beautifying the skin.

Tips for using mugwort to beautify the skin

Health & Life Newspaper quoted Doctor Huyen Thao as saying that mugwort has many nutritional components and essential oils. Some active ingredients in mugwort have the effect of promoting blood circulation, thereby improving metabolism, helping the skin to be better nourished and hydrated.

Mugwort also has the effect of stimulating new skin, healing wounds.

Mugwort also contains a useful ingredient for skin beautification. It is tannin, which helps prevent the appearance of small blisters, cure eczema and some other types of dermatitis.

Mugwort also has the effect of breaking down fat, eliminating dirt on the skin surface, and can clean the skin of people with oily skin. Mugwort also has the effect of retaining moisture, so it protects dry skin well. Therefore, mugwort can be used for all skin types.

Beauty remedies from mugwort

Cook 25-50gr of dried mugwort leaves with 1000ml of water. Cover the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for another 20 minutes. Filter the water with a cloth, pour into a clean, dry jar, and store in the refrigerator for later use. Or use 5gr of dried mugwort, cook with 200ml of water, and use up within the day.

In the evening, after washing your face, use a compressed mask soaked in mugwort water mixed according to the above formula (can be diluted), apply on the face and rough skin areas. After about 4-5 minutes, the towel will dry, then remove the paper, you can rub in a little more moisturizer to add nutrients. If you are afraid that the compressed mask is infused with fragrance that can cause allergies or reduce the effect, you can replace it with a clean gauze or muslin cloth.

This mugwort remedy will help nourish the skin, treat itchy skin, eczema and blisters. For children and people with sensitive skin, it can be diluted to reduce skin irritation.

Good remedies from mugwort

Lao Dong newspaper quoted physician Thich Tue Tam as saying that, in addition to its beauty benefits, mugwort is also used in many good medicines:

- Treats heavy menstrual bleeding, high blood pressure causing heavy menstruation, uterine bleeding

Ingredients include: 12gr of mugwort, 10gr of rehmannia glutinosa, 10gr of angelica, 5gr of white peony, 3gr of ligusticum wallichii. Boil with 800ml of water. When there is 300ml left, filter out the residue, stir well, divide into 3 parts, and drink during the day.

- Treats physical weakness, warms the uterus for infertile women

Ingredients include white peony, angelica, cyperus, mugwort, rehmannia, and ligusticum wallichii. Grind into powder and make into pills. Take 12 - 16 grams per day.

- Treats dizziness, nausea, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation

Ingredients include 80gr of angelica, 80gr of mugwort, 240gr of cyperus rotundus, steamed with vinegar for half a day, dried, and ground into powder. Cook vinegar with sticky rice to make paste, mix with powdered medicine to make pills. Take 16gr per day.

- Treat menstrual cramps, menorrhagia

Ingredients include Cyperus rotundus and Mugwort, each 20-40gr, decocted to drink. Drink twice a day. Can be taken in powder form 4-8gr or in concentrated form 2-4gr.

- Pregnancy medicine, treatment of threatened miscarriage

Ingredients include 12 jujubes, 24g mugwort, 24g ginger, boil and drink.

- Treat abdominal pain and bleeding during pregnancy

Ingredients: mugwort leaves, perilla leaves, each 16gr, boil and drink.

Hopefully the tips on using mugwort to beautify the skin and cure diseases above will be helpful to you.