To drink Yinchen tea, you should pick it on the first and second days of the first lunar month and dry it in the shade. It can cure jaundice, improve eyesight and protect the liver. In fact, you are the one who can heal your heart and disease.

If you want to steam and eat Artemisia annua, you should pick it in March. It’s the right time to eat white mugwort in spring and taste the spring on your tongue.

Good rain knows the season, and spring will happen. After a spring rain, in the fields and alpine jungles, under the cover of dead leaves, a touch of new green sprouts from the roots of the withered white artemisia. It has just grown out and is as big as a copper coin, with scattered slender leaves, shaped like snowflakes and slightly colored. Green, with white roots and velvety leaf stems, giving people a gentle and supple feeling.

White Artemisia is an ordinary plant that grows in barren soil and has experienced wind, frost, rain, snow, severe cold and freezing. Although it is unknown, it is a blessing given to mankind by nature.

In the early morning vegetable market, an old vegetable farmer was selling wormwood. 12 yuan per catty. He said: The current white artemisia is called Yinchen, which has medicinal value. He lives at the foot of the mountain. Every year in January, February and March, he digs white artemisia and sells it in the market. In April, the wormwood slowly grew up and turned into white wormwood. It grew taller and taller, and finally became an ordinary grass in the countryside. The kind vegetable farmer told me where the wormwood grows.

I told my friend that today I saw the wormwood in the vegetable market, which was green and smelled of medicine. We made an appointment to dig up the wormwood.

After driving for more than an hour, we arrived at the foot of the mountain. From the top of the platform, we looked at the mountain. The gentle slope became steeper as we went up. Although spring has arrived, everything has just woken up, and the trees and weeds have just turned soft. I bent down, spread my hands around the dead leaves and vines, carefully reached the root of the mugwort, grabbed its new buds, broke them off on both sides, or pinched them with my nails until they reached the palm of my hand. As long as I didn't pick up the roots. , new shoots will grow where they have been picked.

Although white wormwood grows early, it matures and turns green during the second month of the lunar calendar. "On February 2nd, it rains and clears, and grass sprouts and sprouts grow together." Bai Juyi's poem is still a true portrayal of the earth's one-year-old new green.

It is really not easy to pick wormwood. In places where weeds are overgrown and covered with weeds, wormwood grows quickly, but it is difficult to pick. The thorns of the plants can accidentally get stuck into the flesh. , it hurts so much that it is extremely difficult to come out of the flesh.

However, breathing the fresh mountain air, smelling the medicinal fragrance of wormwood, without the noise of noisy carriages and horses, is also a spiritual practice in life.