Know Artemisia argyi and read the healthy story of nature.

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Artemisia argyi is a perennial herb, which grows in Shan Ye and all over China. Around the Dragon Boat Festival in May, Artemisia argyi leaves grow most vigorously.

Chinese mugwort

AI YE

Dragon Boat festival

leaf

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a gregarious plant. As long as one tree appears in a place, it can often reproduce. The wormwood at the water’s edge is about half a man’s height, and it grows straight and densely. The dark green leaves are not contaminated, and they are all so full of energy. The back of the leaves is densely covered with gray fluff, and the wind blows dark green and light white. The leaves are about the size of the palm of your hand, such as spreading out like feathers. Pick a leaf, twist it, and the grass is mixed with the smell of mugwort.

folium artemisiae argyi

Short story: the rhizome of wormwood is very tough, and it broke with great effort until it was cut off by borrowing a sickle. Carrying a bundle of green wormwood, the car is filled with the fragrance of wormwood leaves and intoxicated.

The fragrance of wormwood is too direct, without complex fragrance and distant fragrance, it is so rough and not convergent, and it exudes a smoky smell in the sun, mixed with a thick earthy smell. I remember that in the era when there was no mosquito-repellent incense, the old people would harvest the mature wormwood or put it together. In the summer evening, it is lit in the house and yard, releasing thick smoke, so mosquitoes and insects and snakes dare not come to harass.

The faint moxa smoke smells good. People who don’t like it call it stinky wormwood, and often compare it with the noble orchid fragrance, and compare it with orchid wormwood. Of course, when you are happy, the taste of mugwort leaves is different. Su Shi used to be the prefect of Xuzhou. In the drought in Xuzhou, he went to the temple in Lanxi to pray for rain. It really works. When he returned to the temple to make a vow, he was naturally in a good mood. He felt that the sunny and sunny days after the rain were like "the sun was warm and the mulberry was shining like a splash, and the wind came to Artemisia."

Fumigating mugwort leaves are also a magic weapon used to prevent prickly heat during the Dragon Boat Festival. The products of Artemisia argyi leaves are not only toilet water, but also hand sanitizer, bath lotion and mosquito repellent, which naturally come from the antibacterial disinfection and mosquito repellent effects of Artemisia argyi leaves.

In spring, wormwood grows vigorously and becomes people’s dish; Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, it is also the season of picking Ai, which is collected in the Book of Songs.

Ge: "I don’t see you for a day, like three years old!" " It seems that in a long time, beautiful girls were also picking moxa. What was it used for then? There is a reputation among the people that "apricot is the flower of a doctor and wormwood is the grass of a doctor", and treating diseases is its main purpose.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as medicine. Fresh raw folium Artemisiae Argyi will slowly age after being dried and stored in the dark. Time has subdued the fierceness of Ai, dispersed the dryness of Ai, and made the medicine more mild, so the ancients said, "You don’t need a doctor to come to your home for three years."

Chen Ai is the raw material for processing moxa. Chen Ai is placed in a stone mortar and beaten repeatedly to remove the last raw flavor, and finally becomes cooked moxa as soft as cotton, and its medicinal properties become hot. Regardless of whether it is raw or cooked, its most prominent feature is its warmth. Ai is not only food, but also medicine, which is closely related to the folk customs and life in our country, and also plays a significant role in preventing and treating diseases.

Aijiu Dragon Boat Festival

Ai and moxibustion have been linked together since ancient times. From the acupuncture department of Chinese medicine hospital to the massage bed in the health center, the burning smell of Ai Ye wafts through the doors and windows into a special business card. Where there is this smell, people will know where there is moxibustion and where there is Chinese medicine. Now moxibustion has also become a common way of health care for families in China.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi is also a good medicine for dermatology. Many patients, such as psoriasis and eczema, have a chronic course, with thick skin lesions, dark purple and itching. In Chinese medicine, they are syndromes of cold-dampness accumulation, cold coagulation and blood stasis. This syndrome must be treated with drugs that warm the cold and damp, but it can’t disperse the cold coagulation, and Artemisia argyi just has this characteristic.

Wormwood was born in the field, but it was integrated into the life in Chinese, and even went to the world with fireworks and acupuncture, forming a unique wormwood culture. The core of this culture is warmth, care, waiting and enthusiasm.

As long as there is wormwood, fire will burn, and the light of fire will warm people.

Content source: The text is compiled from Essay on Herbal Medicine of Four Seasons: Healthy Story of Nature published by People’s Health Publishing House.

Author: Li Ping

Original title: "Know Artemisia argyi and read the healthy story of nature"

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