1, different sachets
(1) refreshing sachet
Materials: 9g Alpinia officinarum, 9g Cinnamomum cassia bark, 4.5g mint, 3g camphor, 3g borneol, sachet 1 piece.
Usage: Mash Rhizoma Alpiniae Officinalis and Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici, put them together with Camphor, Mentha and Borneolum Syntheticum into a sachet, tie your mouth and carry them with you. It has the effect of refreshing and relieving fatigue.
(2) tranquilizing sachet
Material cinnabar (water fly) 30g.
Usage put cinnabar into a sachet and tie it tightly. Carry it in your pocket, take it out from time to time, and put it under your nose to smell it. Cinnabar is a commonly used sedative drug, and it is used in Baizi Yangxin Pill, a Chinese patent medicine commonly used to nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. Cinnabar has a certain toxicity, and the toxicity will decrease after water flies. The vermilion powder flying over the water is very delicate. If the mouth of the bag is not tied tightly, it will easily fly out of the sachet and dye the clothes.
(3) sachets for repelling mosquitoes
Materials: peppermint 9g, Vitex negundo 9g, Qilixiang 9g and Artemisia argyi 9g.
Usage: pound these materials into coarse powder, put them in sachets and carry them with you. It is best to put one on the desk and the bedside of the bedroom respectively. Vitex negundo, also called "mosquito-repellent incense grass", has the effect of repelling mosquitoes and preventing diseases to some extent.
Precautions must ensure the freshness of the raw materials of the sachet, and the raw materials need to be replaced after the scent of the sachet is lightened.
2, the use of sachets
In ancient times, it was called "sachet", which was also called "wearing a veil", "letting off a stink", "sachet" and "purse". In some places, there was a custom that the bride gave sachets to her relatives and friends. Chinese people thought that the bride was happy, and the sachets made by her own hands could better dispel evil spirits and detoxify. Therefore, on the Dragon Boat Festival in her first year of marriage, the bride had to sew sachets and give them to her relatives and friends.
Modern research holds that the Chinese herbal medicine in the sachet of traditional Chinese medicine emits rich fragrance, forming a high-concentration small environment around the human body, and the Chinese herbal medicine components can enter the human body through the respiratory tract. The aromatic smell can excite the nervous system, stimulate the nasal mucosa, increase the antibody-secretory immunoglobulin content on the nasal mucosa, continuously stimulate the immune system of the body, promote the generation of antibodies, inhibit the growth of various pathogenic bacteria, and improve the body's disease resistance.
3. How to wear a sachet
Every Dragon Boat Festival, especially women and children, wear sachets. Tracing back to the origin of sachets, as early as the pre-Qin period, women wore ornaments made of five threads on their heads. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they developed into sachets, and in the Tang Dynasty, fragrant balls filled with spices appeared.
During and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, flies and insects fly, poisonous gas rises and epidemics germinate. The ancients thought that people ate whole grains and gave birth to all kinds of diseases, and the diseases entered from the mouth, mostly evil and miscellaneous gas, which was inhaled through the nose and mouth. In the long-term struggle with various diseases, people found that drinking realgar wine and wearing sachets can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify, which has its own medical principles.