1. Medical contraindications
During the Chinese New Year, doctors are afraid of "unlucky stroke" because they are afraid of making house calls, unless they pay double the cost for disaster relief. Avoid knocking on the patient's door when seeing a doctor at ordinary times. There is a saying that "the doctor can't close the door, go ahead." Locking the door is tantamount to looking for a doctor, which is not good for the patient and the doctor. Folk doctors also "don't prescribe", that is, they can prescribe drugs to others, but they can't prescribe drugs to others. Prescribing a prescription is tantamount to ruining your job.
2. Pharmaceutical taboos
The clerk is forbidden to smell the medicine. Avoid changing hands when delivering medicine. Sending medicine can't be said to send medicine, but to say "send tonic medicine".
Health taboo
1. Body taboo
The body is the home of the soul. In order to protect the soul and life from harm, the human body has many taboos, especially the slaves with hair and beard. Newborn fetal hair is not allowed to be shaved within 0/00 days after 100 days, and it is not allowed to be shaved after 100 days. Related to this, children are not allowed to touch their fontanels, let alone pat them with their hands. They think that the fontanelle is the place where the soul goes in and out, and touching it may make the child dumb. Adults are not allowed to touch their heads except elders to children, thinking that being caressed will be unlucky and make them sick. Don't throw away the hair that falls from combing or haircut, especially the hair that women comb, and be sure to hide it in the cracks in the wall. If the littered hair is trampled or damaged by others, it will make people sick. If the enemy gets a lock of hair as the basis of witchcraft, it is even more dangerous. Similarly, cut nails (claws) and fallen teeth should not be thrown away casually. The lost teeth should be thrown on the roof, and the upper teeth should be thrown under the grinding table, so that the new teeth can grow faster.
When it comes to the body, people's shadows can't be stepped on casually. Stepping on the shadow of others, even cutting with a knife, is a serious injury to others and may bring disaster to others. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, when the photography industry was just emerging, people thought that photography could take people's souls into a camera and people would get sick.
2. Dietary taboos
Because diet is closely related to human health, there are many taboos in diet among the people. Today, it seems that some are sanitary and some are superstitious.
Some taboos are aimed at the image and eating time of the food itself, such as: chicken with five claws can't be eaten, and people will get sick if they eat it; Eat eggs with spots on the shell and freckles on the surface; Catfish with red beard is not suitable for eating; Ginger without silk and hair is not suitable for eating; Shrimp does not need to be black under the abdomen; White horses with horseshoe horns and black heads and green hooves cannot be eaten; Sheep with one-horned blackheads are inedible; Eating beef and mutton during the period from grass germination to summer and autumn is easy to "boil" (an acute disease in folklore, the patient dies); Radishes planted in spring, melons planted in autumn are inedible, and so on.
The strictest dietary taboos also mean that taboos are contrary to eating habits, which is called "anti-eating" in the north, that is, certain foods cannot be eaten together. If beef and beef are eaten together, it will cause sores; Sheep liver and raw peppers are eaten together, hurting the five internal organs; Rabbits and white chickens eat together, causing yellowing disease; Pheasants and catfish eat together, giving birth to cockroaches; Soft-shelled turtle and amaranth eat together and give birth to insects; Pork and leeks are eaten together, and the navel is rotten; Pufferfish and venison eat together, dead; Peanuts and cucumbers are eaten together and heartbroken; Persimmon and crab eat together, have loose bowels and so on.
3. Life taboos
People live at home most of their lives, so living has a great relationship with people's health. Housing construction is the most important thing in life. Generally, Mr. Feng Shui should be invited to see the location of the building, and there are many taboos. Violating taboos is not conducive to three aspects: first, it will affect the reproduction of future generations, that is, if the meeting is not held well, it will not happen again; Second, it affects economic income, that is, it breaks money; The third is to affect the health of family members. For example, the front of the house is high and then low, the house is small, the window is Daimon Masaru, the door is low and the window is high, and it is forbidden to rush the door on walls, mountains, shrines and straight roads, and there is a big pit in front of the door. If you commit the above taboos, you will easily get sick and invite disasters.
Building a house has a date of death, so we need to find a date. There is a saying that building a house in May makes people bald. Building a house is the most taboo for craftsmen to bury "sacrifices" in the room. If the host family treats the craftsman badly, or bears a grudge against him, the craftsman may bury some things like dough figurines, dough figurines, grass figurines, paper figures, Woodenhead, wooden boats, hair, ox bones, figures and paintings among brick beams and purlins in some way, which will bring disaster to the family.
There are also many taboos in the courtyard and indoors. If the yard should be long from north to south and short from east to west, if it is "the yard is long horizontally, it will hurt the young man." Hospitals avoid big trees, as the saying goes: "Big trees lead to the entrance, and diseases keep coming." No mulberry is planted before, no willow is planted after, and no "executioner" is planted in the courtyard (referring to peach trees, whose branches, flowers and fruits are blood red, which is the culprit and the main refuge). In the past, people thought that the plague was prevalent because the plague ghost was at work. According to the Customs of Taiwan Province Province, plague ghosts often live indoors, such as atrium, bed, bed, kitchen and hall. If you don't know when and where the plague ghost is, you will get sick under its influence.
These, today, are mostly feudal superstitions.
4. Sexual taboos