Dragon-boat festival custom and epidemic prevention in summer

Wen Changlu 

Source: Beijing business today

        Folk in a lot of activity around the Dragon Boat Festival, race dragon boats and eating zongzi, hanging moxa leaf, realgar, stains calamus... Now it seems that the most about summer epidemic prevention, cure not ill in accord with concept. Is eating zongzi, for example, TCM believes that comply with the solar terms, "take phase has not yet been scattered, as" Yin and Yang.

        About moxa leaf, as traditional Chinese medicine, regulate qi and blood, expelling cold evil, WenTong meridians, the bleeding check belt use. Accustomed to made in henan Shang Yin north of ai, hubei QiChun Chinese mugwort and zhejiang ningbo sea, in the production of top grade. Is moxibustion with moxa, treatment effect is quite good, ancient have "the twelve meridians" medicine, moxibustion with good words "fit". Looks like the fresh ai may,, pungent smell, with its drive midge sterilization have certain effect, which is by the modern pharmacology research institute for sure.

        About the realgar wine, "opera" white snake "in the white niang son drink realgar wine, serpentine rendering now, make it more market. Poison insects realgar solutions many of the work of past dynasties medical books, since the cold-induced febride to apply the results of the modern research is a positive attitude. But it main effect is healing trauma, anti the pain wake away pill, cure sore itch itch two taste poison, or to treat tetanus realgar powder, etc., are directly or indirectly connected to surgery. Dosage of medicine cure disease using more carefully, strictly controlled between 0.3 to 0.9 grams, levigation join bolus, powder agent.

        On calamus wine, the past is of special value in the ancient royal families, such as empress dowager cixi and emperor guangxu in qing dynasty palace basis is given priority to with calamus preparation of changchun longevity cream, delay aging life paste health plasters, etc. Calamus role before the tang dynasty was made fully understand and use, and its main effect is phlegm switched on, and with wet. The collected Taoist scriptures there is a "flag", in the book to take pill calamus wine, disappear a month, two months of phlegm, bone marrow, color filling jersey for five years, white hair black, fall chi. Although this is exaggeration, but the benefits of moderation calamus wine to the body.

(the author is the traditional Chinese medicine, chief physician, professor, writer, academic advisor and chief health science experts of China association of Chinese medicine)

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