What is Artemisia argyi used for Dragon Boat Festival in May?

The ancients believed that wormwood had the function of expelling poison and evil spirits, and it was often used for divination in ancient times. Especially during the Dragon Boat Festival, every household would hang or insert wormwood tied with red paper at the door to bless their families' good luck and peace.

Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and noon is the most medicinal day for plants and trees in a year. The herbs collected on this day are the most effective in treating skin diseases and ward off evil spirits.

At this time, people will collect wormwood and use it to ward off evil spirits. According to the records of local customs in the Jin Dynasty, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people tied wormwood into a human shape, or woven it into a tiger shape, or cut it into a tiger shape with colored cloth, hung wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival, and then pasted it with wormwood, so the woven or cut object was called "Ai Hu".

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Distributed in Mongolia, North Korea, Russian (Far East) and China; It is widely distributed in China, almost all over the country except in extremely dry and cold areas. Japan has cultivation. Born in wasteland, roadside, riverside and hillside in middle and low altitude areas, it is also found in forest grassland and grassland areas, and local areas are the dominant species of plant communities. ?

As a medicine, the whole herb has the functions of warming channels, eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, preventing miscarriage and resisting allergy. Artemisia argyi leaves are dried and mashed to make "moxa wool", which can be made into moxa sticks for moxibustion and can also be used as raw materials for "inkpad". In addition, whole grass is used as an insecticidal pesticide or smoked tobacco as a room disinfection and insecticide. Buds and seedlings are used as vegetables.

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