In the pre-Qin period, it was generally believed that May was a poisonous month and the fifth was an evil day. According to legend, evil is in power on this day, and five poisons come out at the same time.
In the chapter "A Midsummer Story" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, it is stipulated that people should abstain from sex and fast in May.
"Xia Zhengxiao" records: "Store medicine this day to remove toxic gas."
Huangdi Neijing points out the date of death of sexual life in May through the dialogue between Huangdi and Motome in Xuanyuan.
Motome said: "The 16th day of the fifth lunar month is the day when heaven and earth meet, so men and women are not allowed to have sex. Especially those with heavy sexual desire, be careful to lose true yang in the month of five poisons. If the true yang is lost, life will soon be over! "
"Fengtian Tongzhi" said: "The second phase in the afternoon belongs to the phase of fire, and it is poisonous if it is too prosperous."
Treatise on Febrile Diseases says: "In May, the stomach is cold outside the yang, and the stomach is cold inside the yang, so I want to get dressed again."
Generally speaking, May is also the solstice of summer, that is, noon month, which includes the whole of Xia Yue, including the third, afternoon and last three months of the whole summer.
According to Taoist doctors, man and the universe are integrated, and the internal organs of the human body are affected by the operation of heaven and earth. The solar term at this time is the time when Yin and Yang fight for life and death. It is suggested that it be banned from the first day of the fifth lunar month and stopped in January. If you can have a desire for sex, you can eliminate all diseases.
Diet should be light, reduce acid and increase bitterness, and benefit liver and kidney. Avoid spicy cold food, especially cold drinks and beer. At this time, the weather is hot, the human body is easy to be hot and dry, and it is easy to be greedy for cold, which leads to cold and heat fighting, dampness and spleen and stomach injury. Cold drinks are also easy to cause acute gastroenteritis and gastrointestinal colds; Women have symptoms such as palace cold, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.
Since ancient times, people have said that June is full of diseases, so it is called poison month. From the perspective of the five elements, June is noon, and the five elements belong to fire. At this time, the sun be the spirit is the most prosperous, and the sun be the spirit is weak, so June is not suitable for venting things, such as eating cold drinks, sweating crazily, and having frequent sex.
In addition, when the rainy season comes, the air is humid and sultry. Once this damp-heat evil blocks the qi and blood meridians, our body will have metabolic obstruction, poor qi and blood and various discomforts.
Moreover, there is another reason why May Poison is poisonous, that is, all kinds of poisonous insects, mice and ants come out at this time, which will aggravate the spread of bacteria. Therefore, every family in ancient times inserted wormwood in front of the door and drank realgar wine to eliminate evil.
When is the specific date of Nine Poisons Festival? Nine poisonous days have ten days.
On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar: in the land of La, the Five Emperors set the official rank, and the offenders cut off their wealth and seize discipline, which is another day of nine poisons and envy.
The sixth day of the sixth lunar month: Nine Poisons Day, Zhai Lei Day.
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month: Nine Poisons Day.
(The above three days are the "first poisoning days")
On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the moon is full, nine poisonous days, and four heavenly kings patrol.
The 16th day of the lunar calendar: Nine Poisons Day is also the day when the vitality of heaven and earth creates everything.
Lunar 17th: Nine Poisons Day.
(The above three days are "poisoning days")
Twenty-five days of the lunar calendar: Nine Poison Days and Dark Days.
Twenty-sixth day of the lunar calendar: Nine Poisons Day.
Twenty-seventh day of the lunar calendar: nine poisonous days, fighting down again.
(The above three days are the "last poisoning days")
On the 14th and 4th day of the lunar calendar, the four heavenly kings went on patrol and had sex with heaven and earth at midnight.
Please be careful for ten days, even a month. In this 10 day, it is forbidden to kill and have sex, otherwise it will seriously hurt the body and waste energy, which can be compensated by non-drug bait. In short, abstinence in separate rooms throughout the fifth lunar month is of great benefit to physical repair.
The first thing: with the help of ginger, get rid of cold and dampness.
There is a kind of food, which is a good product for nourishing yang, dispelling cold and dampness in summer. It supplements yang, focusing on spleen yang, which is the yang in our spleen and stomach.
In summer, everyone likes to eat some cold food, such as cold ice cream, fruit, salad and so on. , it will damage certain spleen yang, thus making the wet poison and cold poison in our body more and more serious. At this time, it is very appropriate to skillfully use ginger to resolve these wet and cold. The cold and dampness you eat depends on eating.
As the saying goes, eating radish in winter and ginger in summer can dispel cold and warm the middle warmer, dispel dampness and tonify spleen and yang, but it is a hot ingredient in the four flavors. Summer is very hot, so eating such hot food will inevitably get angry, so many people also love and hate ginger.
Eating ginger with vinegar, also called soup, can not only dispel cold and dampness, but also preserve the spleen and stomach and enhance spleen yang. Moreover, the acidity of vinegar can inhibit the acridity of some ginger, so it will not get angry if you eat it for a long time. Lu Lao eats 2~3 slices of ginger soaked in vinegar every morning, all year round, without interruption. He has been eating for more than 40 years. Now 100 years old, his mind is still clear and his body is very strong, so he also shared his health preservation methods for more than 40 years.
The practice is as follows: wash ginger, dry it, cut it into thin slices for better pickling, and the ginger skin does not need to be removed; Put the cut ginger into a glass bottle, and then pour the vinegar into it. The bottle must be clean and dry, without oil and water, or it will go bad easily. If vinegar is not as good as ginger, add some salt and sugar and put it in the refrigerator. You can eat it in about 3~5 days. Every morning between 7: 00 and 9: 00, when eating breakfast, it can not only increase the flavor, but also strengthen the spleen and strengthen yang, especially suitable for those who always like to eat cold food and are prone to diarrhea and abdominal pain. This vinegar soaked ginger can be eaten all year round.
The second piece: chicken gizzard-membrane
Zang-fu garbage is damp, invisible and intangible. Such a thing can be called a necessity. This is chicken's gizzard-membrane.
Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli is a yellow film in chicken gizzard (chicken stomach), which can dissolve any blockage in the body, so if you don't know where your body is blocked, but you always feel uncomfortable, you can eat this endothelium corneum Gigeriae Galli. This is well documented. Zhang Xichun, a master of modern Chinese medicine, specially used chicken's gizzard-membrane to help everyone adjust the problem of internal accumulation.
Therefore, whether you have phlegm or other stasis, toxins or accumulated food in your body, this chicken gizzard-membrane can help you. And like after giving birth to a baby, the blood in the body is not good, and I am afraid it will not be clean. You can add the assistance of Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
The third thing: make good use of wormwood to sterilize, remove dampness and repel insects.
There is a lot of rain and humidity, and all kinds of insects like this climate. A few days ago at home, I found two or three bugs in the living room. I got goose bumps, so I quickly turned out the moxa stick at home and ordered an insect repellent. Sure enough, I haven't seen bugs since I ordered them.
Speaking of wormwood, everyone is familiar with it. You can eat it and use it. Wormwood is a treasure, its leaves are hard and moist, and it is also the only pure yang plant on the surface of the earth, also known as the sun of the earth. Fresh wormwood is often made into various delicacies, such as wormwood cakes and green balls. Dried wormwood can also be used to soak feet. After growing in Chenfang for three years, wormwood can also be raised and made into moxa sticks, which can be used for moxibustion.