1, different pouches
(1) refreshing sachet
Ingredients: 9 grams of Alpinia officinarum, 9 grams of cinnamon, 4.5 grams of mint, 3 grams of camphor, 3 grams of borneol, 1 small bag.
Usage: Mash Rhizoma Alpiniae Officinalis and Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici, put them in sachets with camphor, mint and borneol, and stick them in your mouth and carry them with you. It has refreshing and fatigue relieving effects.
(2) tranquilizing sachet
Material cinnabar (water fly) 30g.
Usage put cinnabar into the sachet and tie it tightly. Put it in your pocket, take it out from time to time and put it under your nose to smell it. Cinnabar is a commonly used sedative. It is used in Bai Zi Yangxin Pill, which is a Chinese patent medicine commonly used to nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. Cinnabar has a certain toxicity, and the toxicity will decrease after water flies. The vermilion powder flying on the water is very delicate. If the bag mouth is not fastened tightly, it is easy to fly out of the sachet and get the clothes dirty.
(3) mosquito repellent sachet
Ingredients: 9 grams of mint, 9 grams of Vitex negundo, 9 grams of Qilixiang and 9 grams of Artemisia argyi.
Usage: Mash these materials into coarse powder, put them into sachets and carry them with you. It is best to put one desk and one bedside in the bedroom. Vitex negundo, also known as "mosquito-repellent incense grass", has certain mosquito repellent and disease prevention effects.
Precautions must ensure the freshness of the raw materials of the sachet, and the raw materials need to be replaced after the fragrance of the sachet fades.
2, the use of sachets
In ancient times, it was called "sachet", also known as "wearing veil", "releasing odor", "sachet" and "purse". In some places, there is a custom that the bride gives sachets to her relatives and friends. People in China believe that the bride is happy, and the sachet made by hand can better ward off evil spirits and detoxify. Therefore, on the Dragon Boat Festival in the first year of marriage, the bride must sew sachets and give them to her relatives and friends.
Modern research believes that the Chinese herbal medicine in the sachet of Chinese herbal medicine emits a strong fragrance, forming a high-concentration small environment around the human body, and Chinese herbal medicine components can enter the human body through the respiratory tract. Aromatic odor can excite the nervous system, stimulate the nasal mucosa, increase the content of antibody-secretory immunoglobulin on the nasal mucosa, continuously stimulate the immune system, promote antibody production, inhibit the growth of various pathogenic bacteria, and improve the body's disease resistance.
3. How to wear a sachet
Every Dragon Boat Festival, especially women and children, should wear sachets. Tracing back to the origin of sachets, as early as the pre-Qin period, women wore ornaments made of five threads on their heads. It developed into a sachet in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and in the Tang Dynasty, a fragrant pill filled with spices appeared.
During and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, mosquitoes and flies fly, poisonous gas rises, and epidemics germinate. The ancients believed that people who ate whole grains suffered from various diseases, and the diseases entered through the mouth, mostly due to evil and miscellaneous gas, which was inhaled through the nose and mouth. In the long-term struggle against various diseases, people found that drinking realgar wine and wearing sachets can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify, which has its medical principles.