【Shanxi Zhendong Group Wuhe Medical Care Hall】Dragon Boat Festival, healthy summer! These are the main points to be mastered!
Friday, June 3, 2022 (Dragon Boat Festival)
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The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, prayer for blessings and ward off evil spirits, and diet. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle, and it is said that qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu state in the Warring States period, committed suicide by jumping on the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; there are also memorials to Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jiezitui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, contains profound and rich cultural connotations, and mixes a variety of folk customs in the inheritance and development, and there are differences in custom content or details due to different regional cultures.
Dragon Boat Festival, wear sachets, hang wormwood, drink Male Yellow Wine... These folk customs that have been inherited to this day are wrapped in the wisdom of solar terms and health. Do you know? In addition to eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a big festival for the whole people to prevent epidemics and dispel diseases, avoid plague and drive away poisons, and pray for health, which is commonly known as "Health Festival". A phrase "Dragon Boat Festival" makes us cherish health even more. So, what is the emphasis on the health care of the Dragon Boat Festival?
1 Diet to strengthen the spleen and stomach, not greedy
Dragon Boat Festival, eat zongzi. The medicine of the motherland believes that glutinous rice has a good therapeutic effect. Glutinous rice has a sweet and flat taste, which can be beneficial to the spleen and stomach.
The ingredients of rice dumplings also have a health effect. Such as small dates, red beans, etc. have the effect of blood replenishment, diuretic and detoxification, while ham, duck egg yolk, fresh meat, etc. are nutritious foods.
The rice dumpling leaves used to wrap the rice dumplings are more exquisite. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves or lotus leaves are used in the south. Reed leaves can clear heat, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; bamboo leaves can clear heat, eliminate annoyance, diuretic and detoxify; lotus leaves can clear heat and dampness, and calm the stomach.
Food dumplings can be made up in light and cleansed up, which is a timely food supplement and dietary remedy. Of course, there should also be moderation when eating, and diabetics, the elderly and children should not eat more.
The Dragon Boat Festival, at the peak of the Yang Qi of the year, people's appetite decreased, the humidity increased, and the spleen and stomach were weak. The most important manifestations of spleen and stomach fragility are diarrhea and indigestion. Therefore, in daily life, we should pay more attention to the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is very important not to eat cold food, because the spleen and stomach will be cold food, cold drink warm, so that it is easy to digest the process, is the process of consuming yang qi.
In addition, three meals should be regular to prevent uneven hunger and hunger and damage to the normal function of the spleen and stomach. In the diet, you should eat more fruits and vegetables, eat less meat, pay attention to hydration, and reduce the heat accumulation in the intestines.
2 wash perrin baths can prevent skin diseases
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the humid heat gradually flourished, various fungi and bacteria multiplied in large quantities, the human body sweated in the humid heat, the allergens in the air increased, mosquitoes were active, the sunshine increased, and various skin diseases began to occur.
Mixing herbs such as calamus, raw wormwood leaves, and perrin and bathing in decoction water can prevent dermatitis, eczema and other skin diseases.
Asteraceae's Perrin has an aroma, decoction bathing has the effect of relieving heat and heat, reducing dampness and stomach, anti-nausea, and to a certain extent, it can also prevent colds and prevent mosquito bites.
3 Moderate exercise, strong physique
Dragon Boat Festival is the peak of the yang qi of the year, the weather is more boring, if the work pressure is large, the human body's physiological qi and blood operation is not smooth, it is easy to be irritable and melancholy, palpitations and chest tightness. Changes in mood can affect the function of the internal organs and can also cause mental disorders, such as joy and sadness, anger and liver injury, and sadness of the spleen.
Summer health, it is advisable to smooth the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs. Therefore, in addition to medication, dietary therapy and peace of mind, exercise should also be strengthened at the same time. The whole body qi and blood are unimpeded, which can increase cardiopulmonary function, regulate spleen and stomach metabolism, regulate the circulation of qi and blood, and the melancholy mood will also dissolve.
The traditional sports of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as dragon boat racing, duck snatching in the water, hiking and mountaineering, are all good fitness activities. Carry out moderate aerobic exercise, such as jogging, tai chi, baduanjin, etc., people sweat, can be accessible inside and outside, balance yin and yang, and strengthen the body. However, it should be noted that excessive exercise will cause injury, exhaustion, fatigue and heat, which will hinder health.
4 Disinfection and epidemic prevention, drive away pestilence and ward off evil spirits
Chinese medicine believes that wormwood can avoid wind, cold, dampness, prevent miasma poison gas, and prevent the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils, which produce a peculiar aroma that can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants, and purify the air.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the air is humid and the aromatic and fresh mugwort leaves can remove poisonous gases, remove dirt, purify the air, keep the indoor clean and hygienic, and play a role in disinfection and epidemic prevention, and drive away evil spirits.
In addition, many places on the mainland have the custom of hanging sachets, which is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. The traditional sachet contains Cangshu, Sichuan Root, Herb, Evodia, Mugwort, Calamus, Shanna, Gansong, Lingcao, Ice Flakes, Bai Zhi and so on. Chinese medicine believes that these chinese medicines have the functions of dispersing wind and cold, strengthening the spleen and stomach, rationalizing qi and relieving pain, and passing through the nine tips, and after being refined into fine powders, sewn into sachets to wear or hang at the door, indoors or in the car, can play a role in preventing diseases.
5 Empathy, no risk of heat
Summer health, the heart should be quiet, the heart is quiet and cool, there is no too much distraction, the behavior will not be impatient.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, in leisure time, you can properly enjoy the flowers, birds and insect stones, appreciate the calligraphy music to empathize and maintain a comfortable mood; use open-mindedness and smiles to face the surrounding things; go to bed early and get up early, avoid injury and consumption of fluid, yin liquid storage, yang dryness, the body's yin and yang balance, then there is no risk of heat.