The unique Chinese health care custom

LinChangHua Dongshan county, fujian province writers association

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        "Chinese tonight to see azure night, cowherd HeQiao crossing. Every QiQiao moon at all, wear red silk article tens of." This is the tang dynasty poet LinJie write Chinese amorous feelings poem QiQiao ". But, in Taiwan and the south of fujian province area since the ancient times but not heavy QiQiao, and heavy health care.

        Festival eve, and almost every family want to buy pomegranate and Chinese medicine "Rangoon creeper". Chinese dinner with it "Rangoon creeper" boiled eggs, crab, lean lean, pig small intestine and other food. Eat after dinner, adult child together points food pomegranate. "Rangoon creeper" and pomegranate these two kinds of food has its generality, that is has certain insect repellent function, in the Ming dynasty LiShiZhen medical experts in the compendium of materia medica "records:" (Rangoon creeper) attending children five malnutrition, urinate gonorrhea. Insecticidal, therapy, diarrhea spleen, stomach, in addition to virtual hot, cure all ills boils tinea children." Traditional Chinese medicine used to Rangoon creeper control pediatric ascaris lumbricoides, pinworm wait for disease, because of its taste sweet, children are particularly like to eat.

        Pomegranate in southern fujian and Taiwan very many, many families have to plant. "Pomegranate" is available for medicine fruit, "guang ji party", "the outer table secret to", "the peaceful holy benevolence formulae" and other ancient books are included in, its root skin base have drive tapeworm effect. Pomegranate roots, to strike branch skin decoction are applied to the muscles of the parasite, make its in continuous contraction state, so some insect repellent effect, treatment tapeworm, hookworm, ascaris lumbricoides, JiangPianChong. Speaking interesting, the local Chinese dinner, most families used to cooking brown sugar rice, the trap take medicine also play a supplementary role.

        Why unique health festival and customs? To generation from the northern song dynasty famous doctor wu can. The song dynasty scene first period, south fujian and Taiwan area plague popular, epidemic area TianHuang news, wu can see home minnan adult child sallow and emaciated, mostly with insect disease, first from insect repellent obtains, we advocate in the Tanabata festival purchase food Rangoon creeper, pomegranate, because the Tanabata day good mind, and is pomegranate prosperous production season. People all ZunZhu to do, and then formed a day along the common today. People remember with gratitude the noble medical ethics and medical skill excellent famous doctors, called as he is "sir male", "road male", "true XianShi", even the "WanWanSui" also gives seal can wu as "obtained the promise BaoSheng emperor" title. Only in Taiwan, FengSi wu can temples have registered as many as 162 seats. Until now, south fujian and Taiwan many areas still use the traditional Tanabata festival to eat rice and sugar with pomegranates, betel nut, Rangoon creeper helminthic care custom.