Artemisia argyi Etvante. It is the dried leaf of Artemisia argyi in Compositae. It is produced in most parts of China. It is best produced in qi zhou, Hubei Province (the hometown of Li Shizhen) and is called "Artemisia argyi". Because of its unique flavor and thick and fluffy leaves, it is the most skillful material for moxibustion treatment. Picking before flowering in summer, removing impurities, drying in the sun or in the shade. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is pungent, bitter and warm, and has the effects of warming channels to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, eliminating dampness and killing insects.
Plant morphology editing
The original ecology of Artemisia argyi plants
Perennial herb, 45 ~120cm high.
The stems are erect, round, hard, woody at the base, covered with gray fur, and branched from the middle above.
Simple leaves, alternate; The leaves at the lower part of the stem wither when flowering; The middle leaves are short-stalked, the leaves are ovoid-elliptic, pinnately parted, the lobes are elliptic-lanceolate, the edges are coarsely serrated, the upper part is dark green, with sparse white villi, dense glandular spots, and the lower part is gray-green, with dense gray-white villi; The leaves near the top of the stem are sessile, and sometimes they are completely undivided, lanceolate or linear.
Inflorescence racemose, terminal, composed of many heads; The involucral bracts have 4 ~ 5 layers, the outer layer is small, ovate-lanceolate, the middle and inner layers are large, wide oval, membranous and densely hairy; Receptacle is flat and hemispherical, with female and bisexual flowers exceeding 10; The female flower is underdeveloped, about 1 cm long, without obvious corolla; The bisexual flower is as long as the female flower, and the corolla is tubular, red and 5-lobed at the top; 5 stamens, aggregated, short filaments, inserted at the base of corolla; The style is slender, the top is bifurcated, the ovary is inferior, and the room is 1.
Achenes are rectangular.
Flowering: July ~ 65438+ 10.
Growing on roadsides, grasslands, wilderness, etc. As long as there is plenty of sunshine and smooth drainage, it grows in moist and fertile soil.
There are also growers.
Distribution: Mainly distributed in East Asia, such as the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Mongolia. In China, it is mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.
The fruit of this plant (Folium Artemisiae Argyi) is also used as medicine, which is detailed in another article.
Wild wormwood, also known as wormwood and wormwood in May, belong to the same plant.
Height 45 ~ 100 cm.
The middle leaf 1 ~ 2 is pinnately divided, the lobes are elliptic, lanceolate to linear, whole or serrated, the upper leaf has no glandular points and is nearly bald, and the lower leaf is covered with white filiform hairs; The upper leaves are almost sessile and the lobes are as narrow as lines. The flowering period is from September to 10.
Distributed in most parts of the country.
Its leaves can also be used as mugwort leaves.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi (five)
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has been widely used in our country. Some people use it to cure diseases, some people use it to eat to satisfy hunger, and some people use it as a token to ward off evil spirits and drive away drugs. It is widely used. Until now, many elderly people in the folk will love Artemisia argyi as a good thing. When they see it, they often take it home to dry for later use. Moreover, mugwort leaves are also suitable for growth, especially in the hilly areas in the south, where there are barren hills everywhere and the growth is extremely lush. According to legend, for thousands of years, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will eat zongzi and race dragon boats to commemorate Qu Yuan, and at the same time, they will insert collected mugwort leaves on the lintel to ward off evil spirits and drive away drugs.
shape
folium artemisiae argyi
This product is dry and damaged, and the handle is short. After flattening, the whole leaves are oval, pinnately divided, the lobes are elliptic-lanceolate, the edges have irregular coarse serrations, and the upper surface is gray-green or dark yellow-green, with sparse hairy and glandular spots; The lower surface is densely covered with gray fluff. Soft. The smell is sweet and bitter.
2 Category-differentiated editing
Raw wormwood: May is the best time to pick wormwood leaves every year. Fresh mugwort leaves dried after repeated sun exposure are raw mugwort leaves. Raw folium artemisiae argyi is the raw material of Chinese herbal medicine, and it is also the raw material for making folium artemisiae argyi and moxa.
Ai Chen: It refers to the making method and storage time of mugwort leaves. The leaves of Artemisia argyi collected every year are stored in the dark for a long time, so that the leaves of Artemisia argyi slowly age and disperse excessive volatile oil in the leaves, thus achieving the effect of calcination and drying. The processed Folium Artemisiae Argyi is called Ai Chen. Chen Fang's time should exceed one year, preferably three years, but not longer. This kind of moxa leaf processing moxa sticks has two major characteristics in appearance: one is easy to process moxa sticks; Second, the processed moxa is soft;
Cooked Folium Artemisiae Argyi refers to the processing process and method of Folium Artemisiae Argyi, not raw and cooked in a simple sense, let alone Ai Chen in a simple sense. Cooked mugwort leaves refer to cooked mugwort leaves made from wormwood leaves. In short, cooked wormwood is wormwood processed from wormwood leaves.
There is a world of difference between ancient cashmere and modern cashmere. It is necessary to put wormwood leaves in a mortar, and after several hundred times of repeated mashing and screening, it will change from quantitative change to qualitative change. Finally, wormwood leaves will be made into velvet as soft as cotton wool, so it will be cooked!
Green wormwood-although it is wormwood, it can't be said to be cooked wormwood.
Mature moxa-aged moxa.
Ai Jinrong-Senior Ai Rong has been processed by Chen Fang's wormwood leaves for three years, and cooked wormwood leaves!
3 plant cultivation editor
Biological characteristics: like warm and humid climate, drought tolerance, shade tolerance. Suitable for planting in loose and fertile loam rich in humus.
Cultivation techniques: ramet propagation. In March-April, dig the plants, plant them separately, open holes at the row spacing of 33cm×33cm, plant 3-4 plants in each hole, and then fill the soil, compact and water.
Field management: intertillage weeding, fertilization 2-3 times a year, can be carried out after harvest. Generally, in May, July and September, human and animal manure is the main fertilizer. After 3-4 years of cultivation, the old plants should be replanted. nutritive value