Dragon Boat Festival, aromatic

Wang Zhaoyuan Shandong province Rongcheng City Chi Hill Health Center

        " In May five, the Dragon Boat Festival, each and every family AI inserted. The AI inserted in the door outside, expelling evil spirits and auspicious." AI, and famous AI, mugwort, is a perennial herb of the composite family, especially in the four or five lunar month long most Wei rui. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, produced by the peculiar aromatic, mosquitoes flies, ants, air purification. Ancient cloud:" Dragon Boat Festival season grass is luxuriant, No E and light clothes. No fight Yan is coquetry, owned by that name." Ai Quancao can be used as medicine, have warmingchannelstodispel cold, clearing away heat and removing dampness, relieving cough, hemostatic tocolysis, anti-allergic effect. Moxa leaf processing into" moxa moxibustion cure", is an important medicinal herbs. Cloud:" is the Chinese medicine doctors of apricot flower, AI is the traditional Chinese medicine herb." " Mencius" said:" they do nothing until the last minute and." The Ming Dynasty s Li Shizhen biography" said were" Ai" birth in Shanyang, mining in the Dragon Boat Festival, therapeutic moxibustion disease, power non small patch". The AI and AI treatment so far has been three thousand years of history.

        AI, a fragrance and health benefits, from ancient to modern times, people are all of love. Heard in the home very early, big girl, little daughter-in-law dragon boat head zenith on one thing: acquisition of mugwort heart, rose, peach branches and other mixed immersion and homes in a large bowl, the night Manna is moist early in the morning to wash, wash arm can be eyesight, can protect not sore furuncle. Mountain people although rarely know that Zhou Dai has " May 5th, and blue as the Mu", also hard to read" bath blue Ximu youth" Qu Yuan poems. But the natives with mugwort, making this kind of inflammation and itching and fragrant soil and advanced" Cologne", is not the passive water. Remember my childhood in the absence of mosquito-repellent incense years, every summer night mosquito buzzing call, at the point of a dried mugwort to mosquitoes, the effect is very good, very fragrant, can eat meal in the yard. If the body is bitten by the mosquito bite, swollen very sad, parents with Chen Aixun smoked immediately relieve symptoms.

        AI, and is a kind of therapeutic side, Tang Meng wash" dietetic Materia Medica" records:" mining tender AI Zuocai food or and for chaos, treating all ghost evil spirit, service on the refractory cold dysentery." So far, China's Fujian area, still retains the Qingming Festival" AI for the grain" custom, or ancestors, or gifts to relatives and friends. Its approach is to tender leaves are then beaten, and glutinous rice with rice cakes. This quite pastoral flavor moxa rice cakes, looks green, eating can also taste delicious, appetites. Foreign countries also have to AI wine, such as the famous French wine" taste", the main spices for AI juice, it is said that this wine fragrance sweet pure bitter, with spleen appetizers, increase appetite.

        AI, folk hanging plug portal to ward off evil spirits. Allegedly, this is the Tang Dynasty Peasant leader Huang Chao left refuge marks, the so-called" hangs the peace". The ancestors of AI has lot of good reputation, such as the title of elders for" Ai"; describe young beauty woman known as" the young and handsome". " Book of songs" called" maintenance Baoai";" records of the historian" to the world is at peace." Ai" and also writing. AI is not only to ward off evil spirits, but also to sacrifice for the country is the great poet Qu Yuan, is a miss, because the" Ai" and" love" is a homophone, mist shrouded, Artemisia leaf green, on from generation to generation, generation after generation of descendants tradition handed down, is not only the ancient custom, but also more continual" love".