The practice of sachet

Sachet, also known as sachet, flower pouch and purse, is a traditional folk art that grinds fragrant Chinese herbal medicines into fine powder and puts them into special cloth bags to prevent diseases. Chen Shiliang's Story of the Year, which is quoted from Miscellanies of the Year, mentioned a kind of Dragon Boat Festival sachet: "The five ends are red and white, and the colored lines run through it, which looks like flowers." The volatile smell of aromatic Chinese medicine in sachet spreads to the whole body through oral and nasal mucosa, skin faqiao and meridian points, and through the circulation of qi, blood and meridians, thus playing the role of regulating qi and dredging collaterals. Different pharmaceutical compositions play different roles. Aromatic drugs for removing filth, pathogenic factors and detoxification can prevent colds, aromatic drugs for inducing resuscitation and calming nerves can prevent insomnia, and aromatic drugs for invigorating spleen and appetizing can prevent anorexia.

History of sachet

The origin of sachet has a long history. As early as the Shang Dynasty in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there were records of smoking, steaming and brewing fragrant wine. In the Zhou Dynasty, people used to wear sachets and bathe in orchid soup. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were records of wearing aromatic plants to prevent filth and ward off evil spirits. In the pre-Qin period, sachets have become important decorations that people carry around or hang on curtains. It was recorded in the Qing Dynasty that Chinese herbal medicine sachets were worn on the chest at four o'clock to prevent colds and plagues. Many spices, such as Flos Magnoliae, Cinnamomum cassia, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Eupatorium fortunei and Alpinia officinarum, were found in the sachet unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb. There is still a folk custom of "carrying a vanilla bag, not afraid of five worms".

Unearthed from No.1 Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha

Gourd-shaped sachet carved from ivory in Qing Dynasty

Production of sachet

To make sachets, we must first prepare and select aromatic materials. Prescription should be selected according to different health care needs, which can be a single Chinese medicine or a mixture of many Chinese medicines. Need Chinese medicine to buy in a regular drugstore. Sachet bags are generally sold on Taobao, or you can choose fine, soft, breathable and beautiful cotton cloth to sew them yourself.

You can find a treasure by searching for "empty sachet", which usually costs only a few dollars ~

Household pulverizer/cooking machine/high-speed mixer, any one can be used to pulverize traditional Chinese medicine.

The second step is the filling and making of materials. Spices should be crushed before they are put into sachets, and pharmacies can also crush them. If you have a pulverizer at home, you can also go home and pulverize it, and then add a proper amount of powder according to the size of the sachet. If the sachet is large, it should be filled with a certain amount of cotton yarn to reduce the amount of powder and make the appearance full. Finally, it can be sewn and packaged.

Types of sachets

1, Jiedu Lishi sachet

Practice: Take the same amount of Pogostemon cablin, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Cinnamomum cassia, Kaempferol and Rhizoma Atractylodis, wash, dry and crush to 100~200 mesh. Then find silk and sew it into the shape you like. Each bag contains 4 grams of powder, which is hung on the chest every day and put on the pillow when sleeping at night.

Function: It has aromatization, turbidity removal, heat clearing, dampness removing and detoxification effects.

Step 2 prevent cold sachets

Method 1: take 3g of clove, borneol, 2g of galangal, 5g of cassia twig and 5g of Eupatorium odoratum. Or 3 grams of Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Flos Caryophylli and Realgar, 2.5 grams of Borneolum Syntheticum and Mentholum, and 5 grams of Fructus Amomi and Fructus Amomi. Either side, mashing the medicine into fine powder, sieving, and packaging into small bags. Each bag contains 10 ~ 15g fine powder, which can be worn on the chest or fixed on clothes with pins.

Method 2: Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Herba Schizonepetae, Herba Menthae, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Herba Pogostemonis and Radix Saposhnikoviae each 9g, Asari, Flos Magnoliae, Borneolum Syntheticum each 3g, Realgar 1.5g ... and grind them into fine powder, and smell them every 3 hours from morning till bedtime, or make a cloth bag to smell them. * * * It takes 1 to 3 days.

Method 3: Grind 3 grams of Pogostemon Pogostemonis, Clove, Radix Aucklandiae, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Radix Bupleuri, Rhizoma Acori Graminei, Rhizoma Atractylodis, and Asari into fine powder, sew them into small medicine bags with cotton cloth, put them in the powder, and put them on your chest to smell from time to time.

Method 4: Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Rhizoma Atractylodis, Rhizoma Ligustici, Rhizoma Acori Graminei, Borneolum Syntheticum and Gan Song are equally divided. Except Borneolum Syntheticum, all the other medicines are dried in the sun, ground into fine powder, added with Borneolum Syntheticum, mixed evenly, bagged, put on the chest and smelled from time to time.

Function: sachet has the effect of improving resistance and preventing colds. The closer the sachet is to the nostril, the better the effect. It is best to change the powder in the sachet every ten days or so to maintain the efficacy.

3. Improve the resistance of sachets

Practice: Take 2g of clove, 2g of Schizonepeta, 2g of perilla, 2g of rhizoma Atractylodis, 2g of cinnamon, 2g of magnolia flower, 2g of Asari and 2g of cardamom, crush them and put them into a silk bag.

Efficacy: It can improve resistance and strengthen respiratory tract. It can also be made into large ones and hung at home to improve the family's resistance.

4, mosquito repellent sachet

Practice: Take clove, mint, lavender, Qilixiang or Artemisia argyi 10g respectively. Sew silk cloth into a cartoon shape that children like and carry it with them.

Efficacy: All the above aromatic drugs contain volatile oil, which can give off the smell that mosquitoes don't like and achieve the effect of repelling mosquitoes.

5, the solution to the spring sleepy sachet

Practice: 3 grams of borneol and camphor, 0/5 grams of Alpinia officinarum/KLOC-,30 grams of cinnamon; Or Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae 10g, Rhizoma Atractylodis 20g, and Borneolum 3g; Or kaempferia kaempferia, realgar 10g, camphor 3g and clove 50g. Choose one of the above three formulas, grind the medicine into fine powder, take 3-5g of powder, and sew it with cloth.

Efficacy: dispelling wind and cold, removing dampness and inducing resuscitation are very effective in relieving spring sleepiness. Wear it around your neck,/kloc-every 0/5 days.

6, prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease sachet

Practice: Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Acori Graminei, Fructus Zanthoxyli, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Bulbus Allii Macrostemon, Borneolum Syntheticum, Notoginseng Radix, etc. Each 10g. After drying, pulverizing, sieving, mixing and stirring evenly, making into a medicine bag, placing it on the left chest, and smelling it from time to time.

Efficacy: It has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease.

7, prevention and treatment of insomnia sachet

Practice: put a proper amount of cinnabar (top grade cinnabar) in a bag, put it on your body and smell it with your nose.

Efficacy: Cinnabar can soothe the nerves and help sleep.

8. sachets for preventing anorexia in children

Method 1: Alpinia officinarum, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Fructus Piperis Longi, Rhizoma Atractylodis, Herba Menthae and Fructus Zanthoxyli are each 10g, ground into fine powder, put in a cloth bag, and put on the chest for 1~2 months.

Method 2: Radix Astragali10g, fried atractylodes, Fructus Crataegi preparata, Massa Medicata Fermentata preparata, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli preparata, Glauber's salt10g, 6 grams of Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, 6 grams of Radix Aucklandiae and 6 grams of Fructus Amomi each, ground into fine powder, packed in a cloth bag, placed at the navel and fixed.

Efficacy: It has the functions of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, harmonizing stomach and promoting digestion for children.