Yesterday I pulled mugwort from the ground, which is called Chenmai in Sichuan dialect. It is the mugwort leaves that families insert on the door at the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Ai leaves gas fragrant, can pass the nine orifices, sizzling disease."

Listening to the old man said that mugwort is also divided into family mugwort and wild mugwort. The one I plucked was supposed to be a wild wormwood. The family Ailanthus is short and stout, and the leaves are full and relatively rounded. The wild Ailanthus has been genetically modified, the leaves are relatively sharp and thin, and the branches are tall and slender.

Every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put the leaves in their homes to "ward off evil spirits" and repel mosquitoes, and the elderly say that the family mugwort has medicinal value. Culm withered after the body of the plant soak fumigation in order to achieve disinfection and relieve itching, maternity more than ai water bath or fumigation. Traditional medicinal theory that moxa leaves have reasoning qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, warm menstruation, stop bleeding, and fetal role. Modern experimental research has proved that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; asthma, cough and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and antiallergic effects; hepatoprotective and choleretic effects. Mugwort can be used as "mugwort tea", "mugwort soup", "mugwort porridge" and other recipes to enhance the body's resistance to disease.

The folk saying: home Ai good, wild Ai is not good (home love, wild love is not good).