What's the use of wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival?

1. Because wormwood is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, it tastes fragrant and is rich in plant essential oil. The effective components in wormwood can play the role of sterilization and disinfection. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many people use wormwood to boil water for bathing or fumigation, and some people use it to soak their feet, which can also have the same effect. Usually, wormwood can also be used for health care.

2. wormwood is a plant with homology of medicine and food. In Chinese medicine, wormwood is a blind herb. Eating wormwood can drive away the cold. If you catch a cold during the Dragon Boat Festival, you can drink some wormwood water to get rid of the cold in your body. In addition, the warming and hemostasis effect of wormwood is very good for girls' physical conditioning.

3, wormwood is rich in volatile aromatic oil, which can effectively repel mosquitoes. Light wormwood in the evening of Dragon Boat Festival. The smoke emitted by wormwood can repel mosquitoes.

4. wormwood has a deep meaning in Chinese medicine, representing a hundred blessings. This is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy. In ancient China, wormwood was an important medicinal plant. Moxibustion method in acupuncture was to use wormwood as the main component and burn it at acupoints to treat diseases.