Ai leaf calamus hanging up, dumplings in place of the Dragon Boat Festival atmosphere out. In fact, these traditional Dragon Boat Festival inherited for thousands of years contains a lot of health opportunities. Today, let's talk about the Dragon Boat Festival in the herbal medicine. Dragon Boat Festival, end, is the "beginning" means; Wu, in the twelve earthly branches of the fire. Dragon Boat Festival means the beginning of the most vigorous time of the year. At this time of the year, the heat and humidity, the weather is boring, mosquitoes and insects. Because of this, the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually evolved into a folk festival for all people to keep fit, prevent epidemics, avoid pestilence and poison, and pray for health.

1, Ai Ye Ai Ye, we are accustomed to known as Ai grass, before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, families like to hang Ai grass in front of the door. It has the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold pain. External use can dispel dampness and relieve itching. Mugwort before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, Yang Qi is the most pure, the strongest medicinal gas.

Eating: boiled eggs with mugwort leaves

Practice: put mugwort into the boiled eggs

Effects: Promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It can be used for people with cold uterus and infertility, irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea.

Bath

Fresh mugwort leaves can be coated and rubbed, or decocted and smoked, on dermatitis, eczema and other diseases have a certain effect. Mugwort leaves decoction water to wash the head, there is a rationalization of qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, warm menstruation, the effect of sleeping. Mugwort leaves decoction water foot bath, warm menstruation dispersal of cold through the efficacy of the collateral.

Medicine pillow

With fine and soft dried mugwort made of mugwort pillow, can dispel wind and cold, stop cold and damp headache.

The traditional Chinese medicine has always had the tradition of "Dragon Boat Festival Moxibustion", in order to the Dragon Boat Festival gradually developed Yang Qi using the mugwort through the body, warming qi and blood, warming the meridians and dispersal of cold, and through the pain, so as to achieve a far better than usual therapeutic effect, to achieve the summer treatment of winter illnesses, such as moxa moxibustion.

2, calamus

Duanwu people clean up the courtyard to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. The odor of calamus is a little more moderate than moxa, more suitable for indoor hanging. Calamus: Containing volatile aromatic oils, it is a drug that refreshes the mind, kills insects and sterilizes the body. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", calamus, the shape of the leaves upright, such as a long sword, the ancients said calamus "leaves such as a sword", meaning that it can "cut a thousand evil", evil insects and poisons are afraid to come into the house, the ancients also thought it was a symbol of auspiciousness in their hearts.

3, Xionghuang

Xionghuang, its medicinal properties of pungent and bitter, warm, toxic; to the liver, stomach, large intestine meridian. It is mainly used externally to kill insects, detoxification, treatment of carbuncle boils. Andrographis is composed of arsenic sulfide, once heated, it will become arsenic trioxide, said arsenic trioxide you may not know, but it also has a name called arsenic.

4, Chinese medicine scented bag

Wearing a scented bag, is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. Dragon Boat Festival, mosquitoes breed, Chinese medicine scented sachet has to drive away mosquitoes, avoid evil spirits, in addition to obscenity, regulate the function of health. Homemade Dragon Boat Festival scented sachets used in Chinese medicine are artemisia, patchouli, Cornus officinalis, mugwort, cinnamon, sand nuts, Angelica dahurica, cloves, pungent, musk, ice, Suhui Xiang and so on. These herbs are finely ground and then placed in a dense cloth bag and sewn together. It can be worn on the chest, waistline or navel, or you can hang the 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, which serves the purpose of preventing diseases. Because the drugs in the scent capsules have the effect of opening the orifices, pregnant women, bronchial asthma and allergies should be prohibited. In addition to keep the scented bag dry, pay attention to waterproof, moisture.

5, dumpling leaves

Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", said dumpling leaves have "clearing heat to stop bleeding, detoxification and swelling" effect. Package dumplings leaves, most of the north with reed leaves, the south with bamboo leaves or lotus leaves. Reed leaves can clear the heat and promote the production of fluids, in addition to the annoyance of thirst; bamboo leaves can clear the heat in addition to the annoyance, diuretic detoxification, so that the summer heat of the evil from the small stools; lotus leaves can clear the heat and dampness, and the stomach and tranquilize the spirit, belonging to the "natural green food"

6, zongzi

zongzi inside the glutinous rice taste sweetness and sex, tonic and beneficial to the vital energy, strengthen the spleen to stop diarrhea and stop sweating. But it has a disadvantage, for the digestive ability of the higher requirements. If the weak spleen and stomach of the elderly and children better eat less, especially small children try not to eat. People who have just recovered from illnesses with weak digestive ability are also advised not to eat it. Phlegm, dampness, fire and heat, people with stagnation is also recommended to eat less or not eat. The red bean barley in the dumplings: strengthen the spleen, diuretic swelling, nourish the heart; dumplings in the red dates and peanuts: strengthen the spleen and moisten the lungs and tranquilize the mind. In addition, if we eat meat dumplings, which have shrimp, duck eggs and other meat, you can make a cup of hawthorn malt Chenpi tea, which can eliminate food, remove dampness, and regulate qi.