During and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, mosquitoes and flies fly, poisonous gas rises, and epidemics germinate. The ancients believed that people who ate whole grains suffered from various diseases, and the diseases entered through the mouth, mostly due to evil and miscellaneous gas, which was inhaled through the nose and mouth. In the long-term struggle against various diseases, people found that drinking realgar wine and wearing sachets can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify, which has its medical principles. Say realgar and realgar wine first if you want to say sachet. Realgar is abundant in many places, and people make realgar into realgar wine in the process of continuous practice. "Ting Anne Lu" records: "Study realgar powder and broken Pugen, and drink it, which is called realgar wine." That is, realgar is added to the wine. Realgar, orange-red, can be used as medicine to solve the virus. Realgar wine is the wine of Dragon Boat Festival. In the past, Jianning almost brewed realgar wine at home, but most of them were drunk by men, and some women who could drink it also drank some. When children can't drink, adults soak their hands in wine, which makes the children's face, ears, nose, palms and feet foam. Later, people added Artemisia argyi leaves, smoked grass and other raw materials to realgar to make sachets for women and children to wear.
The sachet, with medicinal flavor, can be inhaled through the nose and mouth to achieve the effects of dredging meridians, eliminating pathogenic factors and strengthening the body, thus achieving the effect of eliminating diseases and strengthening the body. Realgar, wormwood and smoked grass all emit a strange fragrance, but snakes and insects smell it far away, which not only reduces the source of infection, but also plays a role in killing germs, eliminating sweat and odor and refreshing the mind.