Sihainet: Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing people think about is zongzi. What kind of festival food people like is delicious zongzi. But in addition to zongzi down is to wear sachets. It's a thousand year old custom to wear sachets on Dragon Boat Festival. Why do you wear sachets on Dragon Boat Festival? What's in the Dragon Boat Festival sachet?
What's in the Dragon Boat Festival Sachet
Sachets are used to be Chinese herbal medicines with fragrance and appetency. For example, Angelica dahurica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, baicalin grass, Gansu pine and other traditional Chinese medicines can be added with naphthalene, smoked grass, Zelan, Wormwood Leaves, ground and refined into powder, and sewed into sachets.
Simple formula: Angelica dahurica, Atractylodes macrocephala, gum rosin, Acorus calamus, Artemisia root, Cinnamon Twig, galangal, clove, aloe, each 2 money (6 grams) borneol 0.5g (borneol is actually a dispersant)
Other traditional Chinese medicines that can be put into sachets include: Peilan, wormwood, woody incense, Ligusticum chuanxiong, sandalwood, tangerine, cinnamon, Huoxiang, Sichuan pepper, mint, realgar, frankincense, cardamom, nutmeg, Guiguan, Yizhiren, fennel, qincao, paicao, Chennai, Gansong, gaoben, Styrax, etc.
All in all, just as you like. But to children with certain care, to prevent ingestion, or residues of traditional Chinese medicine into the respiratory tract.
All of the above traditional Chinese medicine are aromatic drugs for opening orifices, resolving turbidity and expelling plague. In line with the two functions of sachet, fragrance, with volatile oil ingredients, insect repellent.
What are the Chinese herbal medicines in sachets
1. Realgar
Realgar has strong insecticidal effect. A small amount of realgar is added into the sachet and hung indoors, which has a good effect of mosquito repellent and disinfestation.
2. Magnolia
The refreshing fragrance of Magnolia is intoxicating and has high medicinal value. Magnolia has a pungent and warm nature, which has the effect of dispersing cold and clearing the orifices, and promoting the lung and the nose. Modern pharmacology research shows that magnolia flower also has a good inhibitory effect on common skin fungi.
3. Lemongrass
Lemongrass, also known as citronella, is a broad-spectrum antibacterial plant. Cake can directly inhibit the effect of influenza virus. The warm and calm herbal smell is also to coordinate the body care, make people feel the pure and natural fragrance environment, dissolve the disturbance and common things, purify and boost the mood, and relieve the depression.
4. Lavender
Lavender is also known as perfume plant, lavender leaf, elegant and elegant foliage, mainly used in aromatherapy or massage, and can effectively improve sleep. In addition, lavender also has the effect of inhibiting bacteria, balancing oil secretion and soothing skin, so it is widely used in all kinds of high-end cleansing products.
5. Artemisia argyi leaves
Mugwort leaf is a kind of aromatic and turbid traditional Chinese medicine, which has strong effect of expelling toxin and pestilence. Hanging mugwort leaf and burning mugwort leaf can sterilize and prevent pestilence. AI Ye has the function of warming meridians to stop bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain.
6. Rosemary
Rosemary has a refreshing fragrance, so the ancients thought it could enhance memory. Now traditional Chinese medicine also believes that drinking rosemary tea can help students remember a lot and improve their academic performance. At present, the most recognized effect is antioxidation, so it is often placed indoors to purify the air.
Why do you wear incense bags on Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival wearing incense bag can dispel evils and pray for blessings.
Sachets, also known as sachets, sachets, and pouches, are worn in the middle of the chest, waist and navel. They have the functions of fragrance, insect repellent, plague avoidance and disease prevention. Some Chinese herbal medicines contained in the sachet of Dragon Boat Festival have the functions of dispersing wind and expelling cold, strengthening the spleen and stomach, regulating qi and relieving pain, communicating nine orifices, and most of them contain volatile oil, which has a pure and lasting smell. Most of the effective ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine have different degrees of inhibition or killing functions on a variety of bacteria, viruses and molds, thus playing a role of avoiding evil and driving out plague.
Research shows that these aromatic substances enter the human body through the respiratory tract, which can excite the nervous system, stimulate the immune system, promote the generation of antibodies, inhibit the growth of a variety of pathogenic bacteria, and improve the body's resistance to disease. At the same time, after the drug odor molecules are absorbed by the human body, they can also promote the activity of digestive glands, increase the secretion, thus enhancing the activity of digestive enzymes and appetite. The sachet is often placed beside the pocket and pillow to prevent the occurrence of influenza, diphtheria, varicella, epidemic meningitis, measles and other infectious diseases.