The origin of the snake and scepter in the center of the symbol has two different stories. The first is from ancient Greek mythology, where the snake and the scepter are in honor of Asclepius, the great healer. Asclepius (asclepius) for the sun god - Apollo (Apollo) son, Asclepius from the demi-human beasts - Cheron learned medical technology, but the king of the gods - Zeus (Zeus) worried about Asclepius profound medical knowledge will be all the people and therefore immortality, in order to avoid such a thing, Zeus (Zeus) will be thunder and lightning to the Zeus struck Asclepius to death with a thunderbolt to prevent this from happening. After that, people worshipped Asclepius as one of the gods and gathered in his temple to rest and sleep. Folks even believed that they could pass the secret recipe for healing to the patients in their sleep, making them cured immediately. In view of the people's belief in Asclepius, Zeus finally had to let Asclepius come back to life and officially canonized him as a god. Since Asclepius usually appeared in front of the people in a standing position, wearing a robe and holding a scepter with a serpent wrapped around it, the scepter became the only symbol of medicine. The snake on the scepter is a symbol of medicine and health, while the scepter and the pair of wings are a symbol of peace. Its origin is said to be that once Asclepius encountered a patient with a very complicated condition, which Asclepius could not cure, so he consulted a snake and sought advice, and finally the patient was cured. During the consultation and discussion with the snake, in order to be able to discuss the matter face to face with the snake and to show that the two were equal in status, Asclepius asked the snake to wrap itself around his scepter. The origin of the wings is that Mercury saw two snakes fighting and when he couldn't get them to stop by any means, he put his scepter on the ground to try to separate them, but the snakes went up the scepter and wrapped themselves around the scepter.
The second origin is based on the ninth verse of the twenty-first book of the Bible: Legend has it that Moses cast a serpent out of bronze and set it on a pole, so that if a person was bitten by a poisonous snake, he would be healed immediately if he went to the pole and gazed at the serpent cast out of bronze.
The above two stories are the background stories that were used in the design of the Star of Life symbol.
To date, the Star of Life has been widely used as the distinctive symbol of emergency medical service systems around the world, but its use has been limited to:
1. The marking of ambulance teams.
2, regardless of the medical equipment installed or used in the ambulance.
3. Ambulance Technicians (EMTs) who have passed the required training course and are licensed may have the Star of Life armband embroidered on their sleeves.
4. Personal equipment for EMTs, such as first aid kits, badges and lapel pins.
5. Emergency ambulance books, manuals, reports, or other related materials.
6. When the Star of Life armband is embroidered on the sleeve, it must be "blue" with the Star of Life on a "white" square or circle background.