Pillows made of orange leaves are breathable, warm in winter and cool in summer, and their unique fresh fragrance helps to improve sleep quality. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that kapok, also known as spotted branch flower, can be used as medicine, cool and sweet, and can clear heat and dry dampness, and relieve summer heat. And it can make tea!
Orange leaves are widely used as pillow cores in Guangdong, and some areas are also used for soaking in water, with clear spring water or cold boiled water. The sweet taste makes people look excited and thirsty.
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The medicated pillow can adopt different dosage forms according to the user's physical condition and discomfort symptoms. The most common buckwheat pillow in life is full of buckwheat shells. Buckwheat skin, light green, thin like leaves. Chinese medicine believes that buckwheat hulls are sweet, flat and cold. They are as soft, comfortable and cool as pillows, and can also improve eyesight, soothe the nerves and improve sleep.
Buckwheat pillow has moderate hardness and good plasticity, which can relax the neck and restore physiological bending, and has a certain massage effect on the head and face. This is a classic tradition, suitable for all ages. There is also silkworm excrement pillow and silkworm excrement, also called late silkworm excrement, which is slightly cold.
There are also records of medicinal pillows in A Dream of Red Mansions, and Baoyu's "rose and peony petal pillows of various colors" is one kind of medicinal pillows. The roses and peony flowers in the pillow have the functions of softening the liver and strengthening the spleen, regulating qi and promoting blood circulation.
Therefore, this medicine pillow has the functions of clearing the brain, improving eyesight, relaxing muscles and tendons, calming the nerves, enhancing intelligence and improving intelligence, and smelling the fragrance to get rid of diseases. Legend has it that Empress Dowager Cixi also likes medicine pillows. Chrysanthemum pillows are the most commonly used ones, which are not only fragrant, but also refreshing and eyesight-improving.
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