Congjiang County Records of the Republic of China recorded: "Yao Ban is so clean, there must be a bath tub at home, and there must be a medicated bath when you come home from work.
Because it is deep and clean, there are many people who live long. "Around Yao Ban in congjiang county, there are many other branches of Yao nationality-Gouyao, Baiku Yao and Yao Hong, but only Yao Ban has the custom of medicated bath.
There are many prescriptions for Yao doctors, and Yao bath is the most commonly used and main way to preserve health, treat diseases and prevent diseases.
Yao bath is a unique bathing culture and an ancient health care method of the people.
They use a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, such as wild red sandalwood, red rattan, Polygonum multiflorum and so on. In the areas of Jiuwan Mountain and Moon Mountain, bath soup with the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating qi and regulating menstruation, sterilizing and diminishing inflammation is made according to the ancestral formula, and people often take a bath to prevent and treat diseases.
Congjiang Yao bath medicine is composed of more than 20 kinds of herbs, which mainly has the functions of eliminating diseases, strengthening the body, expelling wind and dampness, expelling toxin, caring skin, eliminating fatigue and refreshing the brain.
There is no gynecological disease in Yaozhai, the prevalence rate of children is low, and many people live longer, which is inseparable from frequent bathing.
The pharmacological function of medicinal bath health care is: soaking human body in medicinal soup, and the medicinal juice spreads all over the body through human capillaries and meridians, thus achieving the function of health care and disease prevention.
Yao's medicated bath is a thousand-year-old ancient prescription formed by Yao Ban people who have lived with Rabdosia amurensis for thousands of years in practice and application.
Regular medicated bath can prevent and treat diseases, especially colds, rheumatism, gynecology and skin diseases; Patients can also eliminate fatigue, prolong life, moisturize skin, promote sleep, regulate endocrine, improve anti-fatigue ability and enhance human function.
The effect of medicated bath on women and children is even more magical.
In Yaozhai, babies should take a medicated bath as soon as they land to help them improve their immunity and prevent common diseases of children such as colds, itchy skin and convulsions. A few hours after delivery, the lying-in woman takes a medicated bath to prevent the invasion of various viruses and quickly restore the physiological function of women. After three days, she can go to work in the fields.
The women here have almost no gynecological diseases, and their skin color is rosy and delicate.
The Yao nationality in Guizhou and Guangxi has beautiful scenery and dense forests. The special geographical environment makes the local area have the characteristics of biodiversity, and the authentic Chinese herbal medicine resources are very rich.
Collecting dozens of Chinese herbal medicines to make a bathing prescription can not only strengthen the body, clean the body, but also prevent and treat diseases, which constitutes a unique local bathing culture of Yao nationality.
Guizhou is a mountainous province with a good original ecological environment. The average forest coverage rate in congjiang county is about 50%, and the forest coverage rate in Yao inhabited areas is over 90%.
Dense virgin forests are the source of life for the people of Yao Ban, and there are inexhaustible wild herbs.
Yao bath medicine from Congjiang mainly comes from the mountain area of Moon Mountain.
Moon Mountain is located in Congjiang, Rongjiang and Leishan, and it is still the best preserved and largest mountainous area in China.
There is a saying here that "two mountains can talk, and it takes half a day to meet. One mountain has four seasons and ten miles are different."
The unique climate and dense river network create unique natural conditions for the growth of all kinds of creatures and the reproduction of all kinds of vegetation. "There is no idle grass in Guizhou, and there is a panacea everywhere", which makes Guizhou the capital of Chinese herbal medicines.
The local Yao people take medicinal baths on the first and sixth days of the lunar calendar all year round (namely, the first day, the sixth day, the eleventh day, the sixteenth day, the twenty-first day and the twenty-sixth day).
Yao people have passed down this Chinese herbal bathing method from generation to generation to keep fit and prevent diseases.
Local residents suffer from arthritis, skin diseases are rare, gynecological inflammation is difficult to find, and many people live a long life.
Historically, Yao people lived in the deep mountains and forests, lacking medical care and medicine.
In order to survive and resist the invasion of virus, they use natural wild Chinese herbal medicines for treatment and health care, thus creating a unique national medicine, health and health care culture, and medicinal bath is one of the most important medical and health care methods.
It can be said that Congjiang created Yao bath, and Yao medicine can not be separated from Congjiang.
According to preliminary statistics, there are 188 kinds of Yao drugs, which are mainly used for 47 diseases.
Congjiang became the origin of Yao bath medicine.
The traditional bathing culture of Yao nationality in congjiang county, Guizhou Province, "Congjiang Yaoyu", recently formally applied to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for trademark certification, becoming the first traditional medical knowledge to protect geographical indications in Guizhou Province.