A way of raising the life of the Dragon Boat Festival
source: Nanjing daily author sun zhe
Zai Xiang, Dragon Boat Race... The annual Dragon Boat Festival is coming. This is a traditional Chinese festival. According to traditional customs, zongzi will be eaten on this day, children will wear sachets, moxa leaves and dragon boats in the river. Savoring, almost every custom can find the root of health. Let's count down the traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival -
eat zongzi,
the Dragon Boat Festival, the most direct connection is zongzi. Zongzi is rich in ingredients, with scent leaves and soft glutinous rice. It is a festival delicacy that appetites people's appetite. Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice has the function of replenishing qi, strengthening spleen and appetizing digestion, and eating zongzi has the function of clearing away heat and eliminating irritability and helping the spleen to appetizer. But zongzi is a high calorie food which is not easily digested. When eating, we should pay attention to the control of quantity. Excessive eating is easy to cause indigestion, especially for diabetics. It is not suitable for people with Spleen Yang deficiency and deficiency cold to eat more zongzi. In addition, when eating dumplings, it is best to mix with tea, which can help swallow and digest.
smoked Artemisia leaf, repellent
folk proverb said: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted AI." Artemisia argyi, as a Chinese herbal medicine commonly used by Chinese medicine, has the effects of dispersing cold and removing dampness, warming the channels and stopping bleeding. At the same time, its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which can repellent flies and purify the air. Studies have shown that smoke produced by smoked leaves of moxa leaves can inhibit the spread of viruses and bacteria in the air and is harmless to humans. In addition to fumigating, moxa leaf is made into wool and made into moxa sticks and Ai Zhu. External moxibustion can dispel cold and relieve pain and warm Qi and blood. It needs to be reminded that people with respiratory diseases such as rhinitis and asthma should be careful to smoked Artemisia argyi leaves so as not to cause allergies and aggravate the symptoms.
wearing perfume sac, avoiding the disease
Pei Xiang pouch is one of the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival. Experts say that in order to clean incense, insect repellent and avoid plague, some Chinese traditional Chinese medicine, such as lilacs, angelica dahuricae, patchouli, perilla, peppermint, etc., are filled in the sachet. They all contain strong volatile substances. They can refresh themselves, refresh their spirits, relax the muscles and relax the Qi, pass nine orifices, and prevent the disease. Nowadays, the ingredients of the sachets sold on the market are not the same. No matter what, they should be identified and chosen when buying. People who are allergic to the body do not wear them well. In addition, pregnant women should be careful with the sachet.
drinking medicinal liquor, dampness evil
mentioned Dragon Boat Festival drinking, the most impressive non Xiong Huang wine. However, experts have warned that realgar is a toxic Chinese medicine which can cause liver damage and is not recommended to drink directly. It can be replaced with yellow wine and five Acanthopanax. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that yellow wine is warm, and drinking can be used to treat anorexia and irritability caused by hot weather. Hot drinks can relieve rheumatic arthritis, backache and hand foot numbness. Wujia is five plus skin, taste symplectic, bitter, sex temperature. Cut the silk into the container and soak in wine for 10 days. Although medicinal liquor has the effect of preventing and controlling disease, it is not suitable for all people, such as women of pregnancy and lactation, people with alcohol allergy, people with liver and kidney disease are not suitable for drinking.
row dragon boat, practice the waist muscle
Dragon Boat Dragon Boat Dragon boat is one of the most traditional folk custom, not only fun fun, highly ornamental, and exercise the physical effect is very good, especially for the sedentary working people are more beneficial. Experts believe that rowing can play a very good role in sedentary improvement of lumbar muscle strain, muscle stiffness, and intervertebral discs and other health problems.