《诗经·王风·采葛》中有:彼采葛兮,一日不见,如三月兮!彼采萧兮,一日不见,如三秋兮!彼采艾兮,一日不见,如三岁兮!其中的艾就是我们现在所说的艾蒿。中药用的是艾蒿的叶子,也就是艾叶。可见其药用历史之久。在民间每到端午时节便有采艾蒿的习俗,南北朝时期的《荆楚岁时记》中记载:“五月五日,四民并蹋(音同踏)百草,又有斗百草之戏。采艾以为人,悬门户上,以禳(音同瓤)毒气。”时隔千年后的今天还保留着这样的传统。在《本草纲目》作者李时珍的故乡湖北蕲春将艾叶列为“蕲春四宝”之一。李时珍的父亲还曾经写过一部《蕲艾传》,是我 In The Book of Songs, Wang Feng and Cao Ge, there are: The one who has not seen it on one day, such as in March! If you don’t see it in one day, such as in the three autumns, you’re not in one day. Years old, Ai is what we now call Artemisia. Traditional Chinese medicine uses the leaves of mugwort, which is also called wormwood. It can be seen in its long history of medicinal use. In the folk festival, there is the custom of using Artemisia halodendron in each Dragon Boat Festival. In the “Jingchu Years of the Chronology” of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was recorded: “On May 5, the four people combined and smashed the grass and there was a hundred herbs. Dr. Xai Ai assumed that he hangs on the door and breathes gas into his voice. “There is still such a tradition today after a thousand years. In the ”Compendium of Materia Medica,“ the author’s hometown of Li Shizhen, Hubei Hunchun made Aiye one of the ”Hunchun four treasures." Li Shizhen’s father also wrote a “Biography of Yi”, which is