Solve the mystery of Bao Gu's thousand years of using Ai, the original red foot Ai so high status.

? Mugwort in our country has thousands of years of history, its use and benefits are also very much. First of all, mugwort can be used for medicinal purposes, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Ai to the leaves into the medicine, warm, bitter taste, non-toxic, pure Yang nature, through the twelve meridians, with the return of the Yang, the qi and blood, the wet and cold, stopping the bleeding of the fetus, etc., in a lot of costume dramas, there is also mention of this point. Secondly, mugwort can be eaten, winter and spring picking fresh mugwort leaves and buds, can be directly as a vegetable to eat, and the Qingming season of the net red food green dumplings, that is, with mugwort and glutinous rice blending and wrapped in fillings made.

? Mugwort can also be used externally to expel mosquitoes and flies, sterilize and disinfect, and prevent diseases. Dragon Boat Festival, China has a hanging wormwood custom, because the wormwood can emit a special flavor, has the effect of mosquito repellent, therefore, in ancient times, the wormwood is also a natural mosquito repellent good. At the same time, the fragrance of mugwort can also purify the home, creating a comfortable and healthy living environment for the family. Mugwort has many benefits, until now it is still widely used by people, incense in the incense is also very popular, smoked in the home to burn a stove, the sense of nature's pure fragrance, but also to guard the health of the body and mind of the wonderful.

? Luofu Mountain is the birthplace of moxibustion in China's southern transmission. 1600 years ago, the Eastern Jin Dynasty physician Ge Hong, Bao Gu couple in Luofu Mountain pots for the world. Bao Gu used the red foot moxa, which is abundant in Lingnan, to treat the sick and save lives, and was the first person to record moxibustion in China. Ge Hong in his "after the elbow to prepare the emergency formula" recorded Bao Gu moxibustion more than 90, the role of moxibustion, effect, operation methods, precautions, etc. have a more comprehensive discussion. Therefore, Bao Gu was called Bao Xian Gu, and in order to commemorate her significant contribution to the medical profession, the descendants built a shrine in Yuexiu Mountain, where the temple of Bao Gu in the Sanyuan Palace was built to glorify the immortal nun. The red-footed mugwort was also called "Bao Gu Ai" and "Shen Ai".

? The value of red-footed mugwort is not only widely due in medicine, but also fully utilized in food value. In medicine with supercritical CO2 extraction and molecular distillation of the joint method of extracting the essential oil of red foot Ailanthus leaves, and red foot Ailanthus volatile oil analysis, concluded that the red foot Ailanthus components of the uniqueness and superiority of the role of antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, and anti-fatigue, enhance immunity and other efficacy, and is now widely used in daily necessities, health care, cosmetic and pharmaceutical aspects. And in the edible value of Luofu Mountain red feet in the dietary high fiber amount of high protein in the production of mugwort green dumplings, mugwort mochi, mugwort rice, mugwort cake, mugwort kuey teow, mugwort dumplings and other kinds of food is also loved by everyone.

? In the evolution of history the development of medical science is closely linked to mugwort, which is significant in traditional culture. Contemporary knowledge of red-footed mugwort is relatively scarce, so red-footed mugwort was once buried. Although nowadays the culture of red-footed mugwort is gradually flourishing, attracting people's attention as a traditional culture, people's knowledge of mugwort is far from enough to popularize the culture of "Ai" in order to better protect and inheritance.