药用当归一般为伞形花科植物当归的根,又名干归,秦归、山蕲、自蕲、文无等。历史上当归是一个永隽、吉祥的名字。相传三国时期,姜维归顺诸葛亮,母子久久不能相见,老母思念儿子心切,去信给姜维,务要他寄点陇上的当归回来,提示儿子应归家了。姜维回信说:“良田百顷,不在一亩(母);但有远志(中药名),不在当归。”寄托了游子的志向。 Medicinal Angelica is generally the root of the umbrella plant Angelica, also known as dry return, Qin return, hawthorn, self-proclaimed, no text and so on. Angelica is a forever, auspicious name in history. According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Jiang Wei was transferred to Zhuge Liang. The mother and son could not meet each other for a long time. The mother thought of her son’s eagerness and sent a letter to Jiang Wei. He asked him to send back some of the Angelica on his back, indicating that his son should be home. Jiang Wei wrote back and said: “Every hundred hectares of farmland are not in one mu (mother); but there is Polygala (Chinese medicine name), not in Angelica.”