The traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival contains what health?

1, eat zongzi, there is a pay attention to

At the mention of the Dragon Boat Festival, the most direct link than the zongzi. Zongzi contains a wealth of ingredients, with fragrant leaves and soft glutinous rice, is a festive delicacy to make people's appetite. According to traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice has the effect of benefiting the qi and strengthening the spleen, appetizing and eliminating food, and the consumption of zongzi has the effect of clearing heat and removing vexation, helping the spleen and appetizing.

But the dumplings belong to the high-calorie indigestible food, eat to pay attention to the amount of control, over-eating easy to cause indigestion, especially diabetic patients can not eat. For the spleen and stomach Yang deficiency, cold people, it is not advisable to eat more rice dumplings. In addition, eating rice dumplings is best with tea, can help swallowing and digestion.

2, smoked mugwort, mosquitoes

Folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug wormwood." Mugwort, as a Chinese medicine commonly used in Chinese medicine, the nature of the temperature, with the dispersal of cold and dampness, warm menstruation to stop bleeding and other effects. At the same time, its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils, which can repel mosquitoes and flies and purify the air. Studies have shown that the smoke produced when smoked with mugwort leaves can inhibit the spread of viruses and bacteria in the air and is harmless to humans.

In addition to smoking, the mugwort leaves pounded into velvet, made of moxa sticks, moxa pillars, external moxibustion can dissipate the cold pain, warming the qi and blood. It should be reminded that people with rhinitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases should be careful to smoke moxa leaves, so as not to cause allergies and aggravate the disease.

3, Pei scented sacs, to avoid the plague

Pei scented sacs, is one of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Experts say, in order to clear the fragrance, insect repellent, avoid the plague, scented pouches often filled with some of the "aroma" function of traditional Chinese medicine, such as cloves, dahurica, patchouli, perilla, mint, etc. They all contain strong volatile organic compounds. They all contain strong volatile substances, can be refreshing, invigorate the spirit, soothe the muscles and gas, through the nine orifices, anti-plague.

Nowadays, the market sale of scented sachets with different ingredients, no matter which, when buying should be identified, to choose. Allergic people, or not wear as well. In addition, pregnant women should be careful to use scented sachets.

4, drink wine, get rid of dampness

Mention of the Dragon Boat Festival drinking, the most impressive non-"Xionghuang wine" belongs to. But experts warn, andrography is a toxic class of Chinese medicine, will cause damage to the liver, generally not recommended to drink directly. Available yellow wine and five wine instead. According to Chinese medicine, yellow wine is warm, raw drink can treat heat-induced anorexia, irritability, etc.; hot drink can relieve rheumatoid arthritis, back pain and numbness of the hands and feet.

Wujia, or five plus bark, is pungent, bitter and warm in nature. It is shredded and soaked in a container with white wine for about 10 days before drinking. However, although the medicinal wine has the effect of preventing and treating diseases, it is not suitable for everyone, such as pregnant and lactating women, people with alcohol allergy, and people suffering from liver and kidney diseases should not drink it.

5, dragon boat, waist muscle

Duonwu dragon boat is one of the most traditional folk customs, not only interesting and fun, very ornamental, and exercise effect is very good, especially for sedentary workers more beneficial. Experts believe that the dragon boat on the sedentary people to improve lumbar muscle strain, muscle stiffness, as well as intervertebral discs and other health problems, can play a very good role.

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