In winter, it snows endlessly. People often ignore the role of snow when watching Yushu Qionghua. Snow has many benefits to human health. Compendium of Materia Medica has long recorded that snow water can detoxify and cure the plague. There is a folk prescription for treating fire burns and frostbite with snow water.

Taking a bath with snow water often can not only enhance the resistance between skin and body, reduce diseases, but also promote blood circulation and enhance physical fitness. Drinking clean snow water for a long time can prolong life. This is one of the "secrets" of those who have lived in the deep mountains and forests for a long time.

Snow water is a sweet medicine given by nature to human beings. During or after the snowfall, when people appreciate the snow scene and shovel the snow on the road, don't forget to shovel some new snow and save it for future treatment and drinking. It is worth noting that due to the serious air pollution in recent years, it is necessary to remove the surface snow layer that may contain pollutants when collecting new snow.

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In the middle of winter, thousands of miles are frozen, and Wan Li is snowing. People like to sigh "good snow in good years", but they don't know the wonderful use and mystery of snow water.

China's ancient classic medical work Compendium of Materia Medica commented on snow water as follows: "La Xue is sweet in taste, cold in nature and nontoxic, and can cure all kinds of poisons and qi epidemic in the sky." Among the people, the snow water in the twelfth lunar month is called "cheap medicine" by the people and is widely used.

Generally speaking, people who are scalded or scalded by boiling water will soak the injured part in snow water for a few minutes. In severe cases, they will soak it several times, which can quickly diminish inflammation and relieve pain, without blisters or infection, and the skin will recover as before. If the scald lasts for a long time, the wound has blisters, or it has been infected and ulcerated, you can also apply a multi-layer gauze soaked in snow water to the wound and moisten it with snow water, which can also diminish inflammation and relieve pain, remove putrefaction and promote granulation. This will scab the wound and it will be all right in a few days.

Where the eyes are red and swollen due to fire, soak them in snow water in the twelfth lunar month to dissipate heat and reduce swelling. It is hot and humid in midsummer, and it is easy to get scabies. Applying snow water in the twelfth lunar month can relieve scabies and relieve itching.

People who drink too much often get dizzy. At this time, if you can drink two cups of warm snow water in the twelfth lunar month, you can wake up.

A Russian medical research institute claims that middle-aged and elderly people often drink some snow water, which can restore atrophied body cells and make people younger. According to foreign reports, snow water contains more enzyme compounds than ordinary water. Drinking 1~2 cups a day can significantly reduce blood cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis.

Ancient literati also swept the snow off the branches of plum blossoms, put them in jars, stored them in cellars, and drank them in summer to relieve the heat. Chapter 41 of A Dream of Red Mansions. "Jade Temple Tea Plum Blossom Snow" says: "Baoyu eats it carefully, and the fruit is light and pure, which is inexhaustible." This tea is brewed by Miaoyu with plum blossom snow water that has been stored for many years.

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China's ancient medical masterpiece Compendium of Materia Medica commented on snow water: "Snow water is cold and non-toxic, and it can cure all poisons." Modern research shows that snow water contains more enzyme compounds than ordinary water. Some studies show that moderate drinking can help reduce the cholesterol content in blood and prevent arteriosclerosis.

However, in modern cities, the environment is polluted, and the toxic and harmful substances contained in snowfall increase, which is not only not suitable for health preservation, but also the risk of illness once eaten by mistake. If Yaxing takes snow water and rain water, it is bound to go to a place where there is no pollution in the wild in the mountains, otherwise it is not as hygienic and safe as tap water.

In addition, A Dream of Red Mansions also describes the art of making tea: "Miaoyu fanned water with an air furnace and made a pot of tea". When making famous tea, we should grasp the temperature of boiling water. Generally, it is advisable to brew with boiling water at 70-80 degrees Celsius, so that the tea is mellow and the quality of the tea is not damaged. These descriptions are amazing, and the author has won the way to drink tea. Good tea, good water and good utensils, if you can't make that kind of fragrant tea, it will lose its color. Here, the author only uses one stroke, but it contains the principle of making tea.

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