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What is the bitter grass used for bathing during the Dragon Boat Festival in southern Fujian?
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Artemisia argyi, alias: ice platform, weed control, wormwood, wormwood, wormwood, wormwood, wormwood, moxibustion grass, medicinal grass, etc.

Perennial herbs or slightly semi-shrubby plants have strong fragrance. As a medicine, the whole herb has the functions of warming channels, eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, preventing miscarriage and resisting allergy. Artemisia argyi leaves are dried and mashed to make "moxa wool", which can be made into moxa sticks for moxibustion and can also be used as raw materials for "inkpad". Distributed in Asia and Europe.

Wormwood has a close relationship with people's life in China. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put wormwood at home to ward off evil spirits. Withered plants are soaked in water to disinfect and relieve itching, and some people bathe or fumigate with wormwood water. Traditional medical theory holds that Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of qi and blood, expelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage.