5 Customs of Dragon Boat Festival Hidden Health Secrets

Duanwu Festival is an important festival among the traditional Chinese festivals. On these days, people will hang calamus, artemisia, and mugwort leaves on their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits, drink xionghuang wine and wuga wine, eat zongzi, and hang scented pouches to express their good wishes of maintaining a healthy body. In the modern lifestyle, some of the ancient customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have been slowly abandoned, however, it has been proved that our traditional customs contain many health mysteries.

Eating rice dumplings - clearing the heat in addition to annoyance

The Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice has the benefit of qi and spleen, appetizing the role of digestion. Used to wrap the dumplings of the dumplings leaves are more elaborate, most of the north with reed leaves, the south with bamboo leaves or lotus leaves, these leaves have good medicinal properties. Such as: reed leaves can clear the heat and promote the production of fluids, in addition to annoyance and thirst; bamboo leaves can clear the heat and annoyance, diuretic detoxification; lotus leaves can clear the heat and dampness, and the stomach and tranquilize the spirit. Overall, the dumplings have the effect of clearing heat and removing vexation, helping the spleen and stomach, especially suitable for early summer consumption.

When eating, it is important to note that the raw material used to make the dumplings, glutinous rice, is sticky and can cause indigestion if eaten in excess, so do not be greedy.

Calamus calamus leaves - to drive away poison in addition to the plague

The folk proverb says: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival insert Ai." During the Dragon Boat Festival, every family should insert calamus and moxa into the lintel and hang them in the hall. Ai leaves (also called wormwood) is a flavor of aromatic Chinese medicine, has a strong role in driving away poison and pestilence. Modern research has shown that hanging and burning mugwort leaves do have sterilization, prevention of plague epidemic effect. Ai leaves, calamus also has the role of mosquito repellent, slowly burning ai leaves mosquito repellent effect is better.

Modern people have been very few in front of the house hanging leaves, calamus and other herbs. For this problem, experts say, you can take the smoke and spray aerosol method to solve the problem. Ordinary families can choose before and after the Dragon Boat Festival to close the doors and windows, and then use calamus, mugwort, andrographis combined fumigation for more than 2 to 4 hours, which can play a bactericidal effect. In addition, you can also go to the store to buy insecticide mosquito aerosol to achieve the purpose of pest extermination.

To apply andrographis - insecticide detoxification

Duanwu around the time, many areas in the south of China have entered the rainy season, the weather conditions are conducive to mosquitoes, flies, pests, activities and breeding. Xionghuang is a detoxification, insecticidal Chinese medicine, containing toxic arsenic salt components, pests smell the food that will be poisoned, people can be coated to avoid poison. There are also many people in the Dragon Boat Festival drink Xionghuang wine, but because the main component of Xionghuang is arsenic disulfide, heat can be decomposed into a very toxic arsenic, so it is not recommended to take internally.

Applying Xionghuang wine is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Dragon Boat Festival, the andrographis mixed in the wine made of andrographis wine, sprinkled in the corners of the walls of the room and under the bed, has a strong mosquito and insecticidal effect. Because of the andrographis can be absorbed from the skin, external use should not be rubbed on a large area to prevent poisoning.

Drinking five plus wine - to dispel dampness and avoid evil

"The fifth of May pick five plus, brew five plus wine" is a folk custom. Wuga that is Wuga skin, gas flavor bitter, Wuga bark has a strange aroma, can nourish the liver and kidney strong muscles and bones. Folk believe that drinking Wujia wine, you can take refuge from evil spirits. The medicinal use of Wujia bark is mainly for the treatment of hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, urinary leakage, women's lumbar and spinal pain, two feet pain. Located in humid areas, it is especially suitable for drinking Wuga wine on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hanging scented sachets - dispersal of wind and cold

Many places in China have the custom of hanging scented sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. Homemade Dragon Boat Festival scented sachets used in traditional Chinese medicine are atractylodes macrocephala, patchouli, Cornus officinalis, ailanthus, cinnamon, sand nuts, dahurica, two grams of each flavor, plus 1 gram of cloves. These herbs are finely ground, then placed in a cloth bag and sewn together. It can be worn on the chest, waistline or navel, or you can hang the scent bag at the door, indoors or in the car. These herbs, according to Chinese medicine, have the function of dispersing wind and driving away cold, strengthening the spleen and stomach, regulating qi and stopping pain, and opening nine orifices, thus playing a role in preventing diseases.