1, wormwood wormwood, we used to call it wormwood. Around the Dragon Boat Festival, every household likes to hang wormwood in front of the door. It has the effects of warming channels to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain. External use can eliminate dampness and relieve itching. The wormwood around the Dragon Boat Festival has the purest yang and the strongest medicinal properties.
Food: boiled eggs with mugwort leaves
Practice: add wormwood when boiling eggs.
Efficacy: promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. It can be used for infertility due to palace cold, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and other people.
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Fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be rubbed or decocted and smoked, and has certain curative effect on dermatitis, eczema and other diseases. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is decocted with water to wash your hair, which has the effects of regulating qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, warming meridians and sleeping peacefully. Decoction of folium Artemisiae Argyi and foot massage have that effect of warming meridian, dispelling cold and dredging collaterals.
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Made of soft and dry wormwood, it can dispel wind and cold, and stop cold, dampness and headache.
Moxibustion on Dragon Boat Festival
Traditional Chinese medicine has always had the tradition of "Dragon Boat Festival Moxibustion". In order to make the yang gradually generated during the Dragon Boat Festival reach the body through wormwood, so as to warm qi and blood, warm meridians and dispel cold, dredge collaterals and relieve pain, thus achieving a therapeutic effect far better than usual, and treating winter diseases in summer, such as moxibustion.
2. Acorus calamus
During the Dragon Boat Festival, people clean the courtyard, put calamus and moxa sticks in the door eyebrows and hang them in the hall. The smell of Acorus calamus is milder than that of Artemisia argyi, which is more suitable for indoor hanging. Acorus calamus: contains volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine for refreshing brain, inducing resuscitation, killing insects and sterilizing. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, the leaves of Acorus calamus are straight, like a long sword. The ancients called it "a leaf like a sword", which means that it can "cut all evil". Evil insects and poisons naturally dare not enter the house easily, and the ancients also regarded them as auspicious symbols.
3. Realgar
Realgar tastes bitter, bitter, warm and toxic. Liver, stomach and large intestine meridians entered. Mainly used for external use to kill insects, detoxify and treat carbuncle, swelling and furuncle. The composition of realgar is arsenic sulfide, which will become arsenic trioxide when heated. You may not know arsenic trioxide, but it also has a name called arsenic.
4, traditional Chinese medicine sachet
Wearing sachets is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. Mosquitoes breed during the Dragon Boat Festival, and Chinese herbal sachets have the functions of repelling mosquitoes, avoiding evil spirits and hiding dirt, and regulating health. The traditional Chinese medicines used in the self-made Dragon Boat Festival sachet include Artemisia annua, Pogostemon Pogostemonis, Evodia rutaecarpa, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Cinnamomum cassia, Amomum villosum, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Flos Caryophylli, Flos Magnoliae, Moschus, Borneolum Syntheticum and Styrax. Grind these herbs, then put them into a dense cloth bag and sew them up. Can be worn on the chest, waist or navel, and can also be hung at the door, indoors or in the car. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that these herbs have the functions of expelling wind and cold, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, regulating qi and relieving pain, and dredging channels and nine orifices, thus achieving the purpose of preventing diseases. Because the medicine in sachet has the effect of inducing resuscitation, pregnant women, bronchial asthma and allergic constitution should be banned. In addition, keep the sachet dry and pay attention to waterproof and moistureproof.
5. Zongye
Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that Zongye has the effect of "clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, detoxicating and reducing swelling". The leaves of zongzi are mostly reed leaves in the north and bamboo leaves or lotus leaves in the south. Reed leaves can clear away heat and promote fluid production, remove annoyance and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify, and make the evil of summer heat come out from childhood; Lotus leaf can clear away heat and promote diuresis, harmonize stomach and soothe nerves, and belongs to "natural green food".
6.zongzi
The glutinous rice in zongzi is sweet and flat, which can tonify the middle warmer, strengthen the spleen, stop diarrhea and stop sweating. However, there is a disadvantage, which requires high digestion. If the elderly and children with weak spleen and stomach are best to eat less, especially the baby should try not to eat. People who have just recovered from illness have weak digestive ability and are advised not to eat. People with phlegm, dampness, heat and depression are also advised to eat less or not. Red beans and barley in zongzi: strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis to reduce swelling and nourishing the heart; Red dates and peanuts in zongzi: strengthening the spleen, moistening the lungs and calming the nerves. In addition, if we eat meat dumplings with shrimp, duck eggs and other meat, we can make a cup of hawthorn malt Chenpi tea, which can help digestion, eliminate dampness and regulate qi.