Qingming Cai and mugwort the same
Mugwort (scientific name: Artemisia argyi H. Lév. & Vaniot), alias: xiao mao, bingtai, curbing the grass, fragrant ai, herb ai, ai xiao, ai artemisia, artemisia, pong ligustrum, ai, moxibustion herb, medical herb, yellow grass, moxa and so on. Perennial herbs or slightly into the semi-bushy, the plant has a strong aroma. Stems solitary or few, brown or grayish yellow-brown, slightly woody at base, castor seedy above, with a few short branches, leaves thickly papery, gray-white pubescent above, base usually without pseudostipules or very small pseudostipules; upper leaves and bracts leaves pinnatifid, heads ellipsoid, corolla tubular or salverform, glandular dots outside, anthers narrowly linear, styles subequal to corolla or slightly longer than corolla. Achenes long ovate or oblong. Flowering and fruiting period in September-October. The whole herb is used as medicine, which has the effect of warming the menstruation, removing dampness, dispersing cold, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory, asthma, cough, tranquilizing the fetus, anti-allergy and so on. Ai leaves dried and crushed to get "Ai velvet", the production of moxa sticks for moxibustion, and can be used as a "seal mud" raw materials. It is distributed in Asia and Europe.
Cleanse a Buddha's ear grass, also known as the mouse grass, swallow flower, Jiangsu Province, southern Jiangsu Province, called "cotton wool head", "cold food dishes", the whole plant has white wool, folk herbal medicine called "chasing the wind", belongs to the Asteraceae family of herbs, and is also used as a raw material for "printing mud". ", belongs to the chrysanthemum family herbs. Jiangsu and Zhejiang area folk often picked before and after Qingming seedlings cooked, rubbed into the rice flour to do cakes, sticky and delicious. Qingming vegetables per 100 grams of young stems and leaves containing 85 grams of water, protein 3.1 grams, 0.6 grams of fat, carbohydrates 7 grams of calcium 2.18 mg, phosphorus 66 mg, iron 7.4 mg, carotene 2.19 mg, vitamin B20.24 mg, 1.4 mg of niacin, vitamin C28 mg, but also contains volatile oils, alkaloids and so on.
Edible value of Mugwort
Mugwort is bitter, pungent and warm in nature, and belongs to liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It is distributed in the northeast, north and southwest of China, and can be easily seen in the suburbs, and is a perennial herb. Leaves by rubbing the fragrance, picking the leaves after drying that is raw moxa leaves, plus vinegar fried into charcoal that is moxa charcoal, raw moxa leaves crushed into velvet and then wrapped into a strip that is moxa. Mugwort leaves can be taken internally and used externally, it is a kind of common traditional Chinese medicine and plays an extra important role in the history of Chinese herbal medicine.
Mugwort as a medicine was officially recorded in Liang? Tao Hongjing "famous doctors," the book on the medicinal theory of mugwort leaves made a more comprehensive discussion: "Mugwort leaves, bitter flavor, slightly warm, non-toxic. The main moxibustion of all diseases, can be used as a decoction, stop dysentery, vomiting blood, the lower part of the anonymous insect sores, women leak blood, Li Yin Qi, raw muscle, avoid wind and cold, so that people have children, a Bingtai, a medical grass, raw field. March 3 day picking, storm dry. Make a decoction, do not let the wind. Also, ai, raw cold and ripe heat, the main blood, epistaxis, pus and blood dysentery, boiled and pills and scattered any use."
The edible value of Qingming Vegetables
Every year in April, the elderly in Chongqing will pick the most tender Qingming Vegetables and glutinous rice to make Qingming Po. Nowadays, in addition to the continuation of the Qingming Festival in addition to the custom of sweeping graves, Qingming vegetable is more because of the Qingming Po fade out and less known, only in the traditional Chinese medicine store when you hear its scientific name, "rat grass", will be from the memory of the people to pick up again. Legend has it that in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan soldiers invaded the Chaoshan area, the people were displaced, starving and cold, found in the wilderness, there is a kind of wild grass not only has a special flavor, but also can fill the stomach, it is Qingming vegetable.
According to Chinese medicine, Qingmingcai has a sweet flavor, flat, and belongs to the lung meridian. The Materia Medica Compendium" is written in the Qingming vegetable has "adjusted in the benefit of qi, stop leakage in addition to phlegm ...... to heat coughing" role. In the Yellow River Basin and the southern provinces is the most growing place of Qingmingcai, the field, the outskirts of the countryside will be able to easily find its traces.