At that time, doctors thought that "incense can dispel epidemic gas" and called perfume with aromatic smell and medicinal effect "fragrant medicine" In order to ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics, the ancients often used aromatic herbs to prepare aromatic prescriptions, and made them into sachets or pills, which were used to protect healthy qi and improve the body's resistance when it was not sick. A Qing Wu Shangxian wrote a book "Li Long Parallel Prose", in which there is a four-time prescription to prevent colds:
Chinese medicine emphasizes "prevention before illness", that is, taking preventive measures to treat diseases as much as possible, and burning incense is the most commonly used way to prevent diseases in ancient times. In Huangdi Neijing, there is an epidemic prevention concept of "healthy qi is hidden inside, and evil cannot be done". Pestilence sachet is used to regulate qi, so that the qi of human body can be smoothly regulated and the qi can be fresh and healthy.
Atractylodes lancea, a fragrant prescription for relieving plague, is a fragrant medicine valued by ancient Chinese. The traditional air disinfection method of traditional Chinese medicine is often smoked by Atractylodes lancea and Angelica dahurica to avoid the plague. In the Ming Dynasty imperial palace, whether in winter or summer, there should be a pot of charcoal fire at the entrance of the hall, which is burning with mixed incense of Atractylodes lancea; In the Qing Dynasty, the Imperial Pharmacy Bureau installed Atractylodes in each palace every New Year's Eve.
Zhang's "Materia Medica Justice" records that Atractylodes macrocephala "fragrance in four seasons is better than unhealthy qi, so it is best used for epidemic diseases, which can drive away dirty and evil qi". Wang Kentang's "Standard for Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment" revealed a foul smell: "One catty of Atractylodes lancea, half a catty of rhubarb, filed, twisted and burned in the kitchen."
There is a song "Qing Chou Xiang" in Hui Zhai's incense spectrum in Ming Dynasty, which is made of Atractylodes lancea and Su Xiang (a yellow ripe incense, agarwood). It has the effects of relieving halitosis and avoiding pathogenic qi: Rhizoma Atractylodis 82, Su Xiang 12, and the right is the end, which is made of cypress mud and bletilla striata. I used a little musk deer on one side.
Before the disease occurs, eliminating pathogenic factors, cleaning living environment and promoting healthy qi are the basis of health preservation and disease prevention. Xu Dachun's Hundred Kinds of Records of Shennong's Herbal Classics: "If incense is full of healthy qi, it can eliminate evil and filth." Dong said that "Fragrant Medicine" discussed the efficacy of incense in medical care;
Health care can not be without fragrance, fragrance can be used for it, adjust its external qi, adapt to its urgency, make up its shortcomings, and make it long and short.
Psychological internal defense is also the foundation of disease prevention. Maintaining a happy mood has a great influence on the rise and fall of healthy qi. As a pleasant thing, "fragrance" can relax qi and express emotions, and is an indispensable auxiliary thing for mental health preservation. Li Rihua's Notes on Six Words Zhai said:
One room is very clean, and there are several rooms on the sofa. The furnace is fragrant and bare. But sitting alone and thinking, naturally there is a clear spirit to gather me. When the spirit is clear, the evil spirits in the world will gradually disappear from it.
The ancients paid special attention to burning incense when they were recovering from illness. Lu Guimeng's "Random thoughts": "Monks in the medical department set up beds, and then put on clothes and burn incense in their spare time." Pi Rixiu's "My Accidental Work on Alcoholism": "Yulin's obstacles cover the sky, and a fragrant incense raises the disease." When you are sick, a stove of incense can make people feel comfortable and help relieve the illness.
In the records of ancient Chinese medical books, there are many prescriptions for relieving plague, mainly aromatic drugs. In the Qing Dynasty, Liu Kui's "Song Feng Yi Shuo" was devoted to the plague, which included the prescriptions for dispelling incense in previous dynasties, and Liu Kui's "Song Feng Yi Shuo" was used to avoid plague pills, so that it could avoid all evil spirits when burning:
Rhizoma Atractylodis, Olibanum, Gan Song, Asari, Rutin, Lignum Dalbergiae Odoriferae (equal parts), and the paste is the size of maruko. Burn one grain at a time, and then burn another grain. After a long time, it has a slight aroma.
The fragrant drugs used in the prescription for avoiding epidemic diseases are commonly used in ancient times to prevent and treat diseases, remove filth and disinfect. For example, Dezhenxiang is rich in flavonoids, which can resist bacteria, viruses and regulate immunity.
Liu Kui's Song Fengshuo Epidemic also mentioned that "hanging branches of Pinus massoniana can avoid the plague" at home. Pine branches are fragrant and rich in volatile oil, and are known as "air vitamins".
Pine needles are rich in procyanidins and biological brass, which can effectively remove free radicals in human body, increase blood vessel elasticity, make human body achieve anti-oxidation and anti-aging effects, and increase human immunity.
How to prevent the spread of plague was the most important in ancient times. It has become a custom to use fragrant medicine to prevent infectious diseases in a specific season. Ge Hong's "Bao Pu Zi Pian" records that in the twelfth lunar month, it is necessary to "burn the incense of Wendan or Atractylodes lancea, Maple and Yun Yun to ward off evil spirits, promote evil spirits and help Yang De".
During the epidemic, moxibustion can be done regularly at home to improve the cold and dampness constitution. Moxibustion has the effects of warming meridians and dredging collaterals, supporting yang and strengthening yang, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold since ancient times. As long as you protect the yang and keep the yin and yang in a peaceful state, you can keep healthy and enhance your resistance.
If you can't adapt to the strong smell of moxibustion, you can also choose the method of incense, and point two sticks of wormwood every day, with the qi of Zhengyang in Ai Xiang, to break through the crux of qi and blood stasis, dispel the evil cold that attacks the hair skin, and achieve the health care effect of strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation.