Artemisia annua is an essential summer medicine for relieving heat. It has a good effect in clearing heat and relieving summer heat. It can treat various symptoms of heatstroke. Eating it in summer can relieve symptoms such as thirst and weakness in limbs. Below, I will recommend two ways to eat Artemisia annua, which have good effects in clearing heat and relieving summer heat!
Benefits of Artemisia annua:
1. Clears heat and cools blood. It can be used for sore throat, red eyes, dry mouth, and other symptoms caused by internal heat.
2. Relieves summer heat and eliminates steaming. Artemisia annua can be used for summer heatstroke, with symptoms such as dry heat, excessive sweating, unbearable thirst, weakness in limbs, and shock.
It can also be used for heat caused by yin deficiency, yin deficiency fever, night heat followed by cold, bone steaming and heat, malaria fever, and damp-heat jaundice.
3. Boosts qi. It can treat hair loss, white hair, blurred vision, jaundice, and discomfort caused by stagnant fire.
4. Cools blood and promotes urination. It can be used for difficulty urinating, short and red urine, hemorrhage from the lower bowel due to heat, and various types of fever.
Usage of Artemisia annua:
Artemisia annua is often used with Huoxiang, Perilla, Talc, and other herbs for external heatstroke. It is used with Scutellaria, Pinellia, and Bamboo Shavings for warm and hot diseases, alternating hot and cold conditions, and malaria.
It is used for yin deficiency fever or unknown causes of low-grade fever, often used together with Qinjiao, Tortoise Shell, and Dige Pi. In summer, it is often used with Honeysuckle and Forsythia.
It can treat various types of deficient heat, such as bone steaming heat, night sweats, warm diseases invading the yin division, and prolonged fever in children during summer.
Artemisia annua is highly effective in treating malaria fever and is often combined with fresh lotus leaves, fresh bamboo leaves, honeysuckle, talc, licorice, and watermelon rind.
It has a bitter and cold nature, with a spicy and aromatic scent. It can effectively disperse heat and relieve yin deficiency heat, making it an essential herb for yin deficiency fever.
In addition, it also has the functions of relieving heat and stopping malaria, and is often used in combination with Yinchen, Gardenia, Coptis, Phellodendron, Cnidium, and Sophora.
Recipes using Artemisia annua:
1. Artemisia annua and fish soup
Ingredients: 10g of Artemisia annua, 200g of fish, 10g of Astragalus, 10g of dried apricot flowers, honey.
Method: Put Artemisia annua, Astragalus, and apricot flowers in a pot, add water to decoct the juice, remove the dregs and take the juice. Cook it together with the fish for half an hour, then pour in honey when the temperature is suitable.
Benefits: This recipe can nourish blood, moisturize, nourish yin, and beautify the skin. It is suitable for women to drink.
2. Artemisia annua, wolfberry, and turtle soup
Ingredients: 10g of Artemisia annua, 25g of Tortoise Shell, 20g of wolfberry, 1 turtle, scallion, ginger, cooking wine, rock sugar.
Method: Decoct Tortoise Shell and Artemisia annua in water, remove the dregs and take the juice, put wolfberry, rock sugar, cooking wine, scallion, and ginger into the turtle's belly, put it in a pot, pour in the decocted medicinal juice, and add some water. Cook over medium heat for an hour.
Benefits: This soup detoxifies, cools blood, nourishes yin, and clears heat.
