Flowers in ancient China, curing illness

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Floral treatment is the rise in the 1970 s a new type of therapy. It is to use a variety of plant flowers or emanating from a variety of plant, to adjust the person's psychology, physiological function, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases. At present, Russia, France, Germany, Japan and other countries in some beautiful scenery of a nursing home, opened one after another "floral hospital", and cured many cardiovascular disease, hypertension, bronchitis, asthma, neurasthenia, insomnia patients. China's xi 'an, guangzhou, lushan, beidaihe, also have this kind of hospital.

Floral cure has anciently existed in our country. Dragon Boat Festival and the double ninth festival is said to have originated in the warring states period (403 ~ 221 BC), when people have on the door frame, the eaves hanging moxa and calamus and carry dogwood, sweet bursa, customs. Legend is for the sake of insecticide ward off evil spirits, disinfection sterilization. In the cases of deloitte was alarmed the jingchu age "in the cloud:" May 5, in thought, hanging on the portal to rid gas." This kind of folk custom continues today.

Modern scientific research prove that ai contains eucalyptus oil, such as aromatic essential oil, water dropwort dogwood contain dogwood xi, dogwood ester, such as volatile oils, has inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria and fungi. Calamus from aromatic gaseous substances, effect on chronic bronchitis has good ping xiao. Families hang aromatic plants, old children capes sweet bursa, actually contains a disease prevention and the significance of a clean environment.

The han dynasty to the tang dynasty, China has imported from Persia and daqin (roma) for more than 10 kinds of herbs, such as tulips, nutmeg, jasmine, amomum villosum, malaytea scurfpea fruit, radix aucklandiae, einar incense, ageratum, etc., and is widely cultivated and application. Past dynasties doctors, such as zhang zhongjing, tao hongjing..., by streams, Ye Tianshi etc, also prepared with these herbs has a unique efficacy of drug pillow, used to treat high blood pressure, insomnia, neurasthenia, heart palpitations, infantile diarrhea disease, have greatly enriched the contents of the motherland medicine. Medical experts li shizhen in Ming dynasty in the "compendium of materia medica, aromatic article also lists the various has clear heat, sterilization, analgesia herb plants. Physician in the qing dynasty Wu Shangxian in book Richard Yue pianwen said: "the disease of seven emotions, see flowers, smell sweet refreshing, listen to the song deserve it, better than medication." Visible the ancients understanding of floral treatment for a long time.

Why do flowers can cure? In the original, plant flowers or leaf oil cells can break down in the sun a kind of volatile aromatic oil, this kind of material after nasal olfactory cells in contact with people, to produce a specific function. First of all, many of the volatile oil itself has cure and health care function. For example, turpentine oil, peppermint oil suction can stimulation organs inflammation, diuretic effect, lemon oil has good curative effect to the bronchitis, geranium oil has a calming effect, lavender oil to treat headache, heart palpitations, and so on. The second is the psychological effect. Due to human activities are controlled by the nervous system, so the patient's mental state, has important meaning for treatment. Gorgeous flowers, the scent of Chinese, through the human sense organs, the limbic system and the adjustment of the reticular structure has certain effect, can improve the excitability of nerve cells, make the person's mood improved, at the same time by neurohumoral regulation, can promote human body to secrete a variety of healthy hormone, enzyme and acetylcholine has a physiologically active substance, improve various functions of the human body.

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