Another year Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival as one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese people, how much do you know about it? Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. According to the “Jingchu chronological record”, because the mid-summer ascent, Shunyang on, May is mid-summer, its first noon is ascent Shunyang good weather day, so the fifth day of May is also known as the “Dragon Boat Festival”. Duanwu literally and “Duanwu”, “Chongwu”, “Chongwu” and other names. “Duan” ancient Chinese has the beginning, the initial meaning, said “Duanwu” is also known as “the fifth”. According to statistics, the name of the Dragon Boat Festival called more than twenty, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, Duan Yang Festival, heavy five festival, heavy noon festival, when the five floods, days in the festival, summer festival, May Festival, calamus festival, Pu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, bath orchid festival, Qu Yuan day, noon day festival, daughter festival, ground La Festival, poet festival, dragon day, noon day, lamp festival, five egg festival and so on. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially for the ancient Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the area) worship dragon totem of the tribes held totem sacrifice festival, Baiyue land before the Spring and Autumn in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the form of dragon boat racing held the custom of tribal totem sacrifice. Later because of the Warring States period of the Chu State (now Hubei) poet Qu Yuan in the day holding a stone jump Miluo River suicide, the ruler to establish loyal patriotic label will be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival in memory of Qu Yuan; some areas also have to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E, etc., but still in memory of Qu Yuan a more widely known. To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very prevalent and grand festival among the Chinese people. Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional Chinese custom for more than 2,000 years, due to the vast territory, many nationalities, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different festival name, but also have different customs around. Originally a summer season to ward off the plague, from this day essential disease prevention activities, gradually evolved to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, artemisia, mugwort leaves, fumigation Cangzhu, dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine. From the Spring and Autumn Warring States to the present, the Dragon Boat Festival has been passed down in folklore for more than two thousand years. Why do the Chinese believe that hanging mugwort leaves can ward off evil spirits? Mugwort: perennial herb or slightly into a semi-shrubby, the plant has a strong aroma. Alias: Xiaomao, Bingtai, curb grass, fragrant mugwort, herb, mugwort, mugwort, mugwort, mugwort, moxibustion grass, medical grass, yellow grass, mugwort, etc.. The whole herb is used as medicine, which has the functions of warming the menstrual system, removing dampness, dispersing cold, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory, calming asthma, relieving cough, calming fetus and anti-allergy. Mugwort is bitter, pungent and warm in nature and enters the spleen, liver and kidney. According to “Compendium of Materia Medica”, mugwort is warm, bitter, non-toxic, pure yang in nature, and it can pass through the 12 meridians, with the effect of returning yang, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and calming the fetus, etc. It is also commonly used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also known as “medical herb”, and most of the popular “herbal baths” in Taiwan are made of mugwort. About the performance of mugwort, “Materia Medica” contains: “Mugwort can moxibustion hundred diseases.” The materia medica from the new “said:” moxa leaves bitter pungent, raw warm, cooked hot, pure Yang nature, can return to the dying Yang, through the twelve meridians, go three Yin, Qi and blood, expel cold and damp, warm the uterus …… to the moxibustion fire, can penetrate the meridians and remove a hundred diseases.” The moxa leaf is used as the material for moxibustion, which has the effect of opening the meridians, dispelling Yin and cold, eliminating swelling and dispersing knots, and returning Yang to save the rebellion. Modern pharmacology found that mugwort leaf volatile oil content, 1.8-eucalyptol (accounting for more than 50%), other α-sidebornone, sesquiterpene alcohol and its esters. Air-dried leaves contain 10.13% minerals, 2.59% fat, 25.85% protein, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, etc. Moxa leaves for moxibustion, generally the older the better, so there is “seven years of illness, seeking three years of moxa” (Mencius) said. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that whenever the weather changes, the body is often prone to disease. Whenever the plague is rampant, a tribe or village often has many people who die because they are infected with the plague. People often call it, in the evil. Perhaps it is the favor of God, every kind of group disease due to the natural characteristics of the region, in the local, often can find a drug to restrain it. Mugwort is the natural remedy against local climatic diseases. Mugwort is closely related to Chinese life and was first used to start fires. The ancients took ice, sharpened it into a convex lens, and gathered the sun’s rays onto the mugwort. Because of the relatively low ignition point of mugwort, it was easy to cause a fire. This was a very important way to get and keep fire. In the early days of moxibustion by fire, it was natural for the people to think of using moxa fire to cure diseases. Whenever the plague came, people were often surprised to find that almost everyone in a village was infected, and only the family that protected the fire was surprisingly fine because there were many moxa leaves in the house. So in ancient times people gradually realized that mugwort leaves had the effect of warding off evil spirits. According to historical records, whenever there was an epidemic, it was a year of great abundance of mugwort leaves. Mugwort is a gift from heaven to mankind, and she is a favorable weapon to cure and prevent diseases. An ordinary grass, full of the passionate feelings of the Chinese people, has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years and has long been integrated into the cultural fabric of the nation. In May, the fresh mugwort leaves are picked and then dried and aged for several years before being used. The dried mugwort leaves are repeatedly pestled and screened to remove impurities and coarse stalks, and then transformed into fine mugwort velvet of earthy yellow color. Only then can it be used to accomplish the most important mission of its life – moxibustion therapy. Moxibustion is one of the oldest medical techniques in China. The ancient people said, moxibustion hundred diseases, can pass through the twelve channels of qi and blood. It can return to the dying yang. Ai, the most done is moxibustion. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says: “What the needle does not do, the moxibustion is appropriate.” In the Mencius, it is written that “a seven-year illness requires three years of moxibustion”. Li Shizhen in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” said: “moxa leaves take the true fire of the sun, can return the dying yuan yang. Take it to go three yin, and expel all the cold and damp, turn the sanguine gas for the melting and. Moxibustion is penetrating the meridians, and cure a hundred kinds of disease and evil, rise from the sickness for health, its work is also great.” The famous medical doctor of the Song Dynasty, Dou Cai, said in his book “The Heart of the Magpie” that “the true essence of a person is the master of the whole body, the true essence is strong, the person is strong, the true essence is weak, the person is sick, the true essence is off, the person is dead, the method of preserving life, moxibustion is the first”. It is evident that moxibustion has been highly valued by all the famous doctors in ancient times, and its remarkable efficacy has been proved by numerous clinical practices, moxibustion is the only discipline with physical and pharmacological comprehensive therapeutic effect among the five mainstream therapies in Chinese medicine, and it is the most effective method to replenish Yang Qi recognized by ancient and modern times, which has been handed down through thousands of years. In today’s society, with the accelerated pace of life, modern people are facing the dual pressure of work and family, coupled with irregular living habits, the phenomenon of subhealth is becoming more and more common. The ancient method of moxibustion, which can quickly relieve fatigue, improve immunity, sleep and anti-aging, has once again entered people’s view, bringing the medicinal power of mugwort through the acupuncture points and meridians through smoke and fire, so as to quickly get rid of disease and evil. The introduction of moxibustion to improve the treatment of tumor complications and side effects of radiotherapy has achieved satisfactory results. For example, moxibustion is applied to treat malignant effusions such as tumor hyperthermia and ascites in pleural fluid; moxibustion is applied to improve side effects such as bone marrow suppression, immune deficiency, numbness in hands and feet after tumor radiotherapy. Taking moxibustion as an example, Prof. Jin Chang creatively analyzed the physiological characteristics, clinical symptoms and treatment rules of leukopenia, and discovered the correlation between leukocytes and the theory of “Wei-Yang” in Chinese medicine, and clinically observed the efficacy of moxibustion on Qi Hai, Guan Yuan and Shu San Li points to promote Wei-Yang, resist external evil and raise leukocyte level. The efficacy of moxibustion was observed. Patients with Ⅰ and Ⅱ degree leukopenia after chemotherapy were selected for observation and randomly divided into two groups. 20 cases in the treatment group were selected from Qihai, GuanYuan and ShuSanLi points, each acupuncture point for 30 minutes, once a day, for 7 days; 20 cases in the control group were given blood pills orally, 5g once, 3 times a day, for 7 days. The white blood cell counts on the 3rd, 7th, 10th and 14th days after starting treatment were monitored, as well as the symptom and quality of life scores before and after treatment, and the incidence of infection was counted. The results showed that among the 20 patients in the treatment group, 17 patients with leukocytes >4.0*109/L were able to maintain the efficacy of the treatment until 1 week after discontinuation, and the clinical symptoms were significantly reduced or disappeared, with a significant efficiency of 85%, which was higher than that of the control group. After treatment, white blood cell <4.0*109/L, but compared with the pre-treatment increase (0.5-1.0*109/L), and in the course of treatment to maintain the efficacy until 1 week after discontinuation, clinical symptoms improved 3 people, the efficiency rate of 15%, the total efficiency rate of 100%, the incidence of infection is 0%, the quality of life than before, and will be vigorously promoted in the clinic, many patients benefit from it, not only to reduce the patient's Many patients benefit from it, not only to reduce the economic pressure of patients, but also to significantly improve the quality of life of patients and reduce the risk of infection, which is well received!