“Midsummer Duanwu. Duan is also the beginning.” –The “Record of Customs and Lands”. Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, one of the twenty-four festivals. A mention of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing that comes to the people’s mind is to eat zongzi and dragon boat racing. In fact, the ancients believed that the lunar calendar in May is a malicious season, snakes, insects, rats and ants proliferate, disease and plague is also easy to spread. May 5 is because of the “Yang” and is considered to be poisonous month of the poisonous day, is the most toxic day, there are claims that the name of “Dragon Boat” by the “dodge noon” evolved, there is to avoid The meaning of the poisonous summer days. Because the Dragon Boat Festival is such an easy time to get sick, giving rise to the use of traditional Chinese medicine, so the Chinese medicine community called the Dragon Boat Festival “Chinese medicine festival” is not too much. So how should we take care of our health on the Dragon Boat Festival? Here we look at the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival from the general knowledge of health care! Zongzi taste beautiful, should be appropriate for each person Duanwu is just after the summer, eating zongzi can be in the light in the flat supplement, in the flat supplement in the clear, is indeed a timely food supplement, food therapy wonderful prescription, but also necessarily become the “Dragon Boat Festival” before and after the best health food. Chinese medicine believes: glutinous rice is the best food in the grain, has a very good therapeutic effect. The medicinal analysis in the “Materia Medica”, glutinous rice is sweet and flat, and has a beneficial effect on the spleen, appetite and appetite. As far as the ingredients of the dumplings are concerned, they also have a very good health effect. For example: dates, red beans, mung beans, etc. has the effect of blood and tranquility, diuretic detoxification; and ham, duck egg yolk, fresh meat, etc. are nutritious food; more noteworthy is that the dumpling leaves used to wrap the dumplings more elaborate, the north mostly reed leaves, the south more bamboo leaves or lotus leaves, these leaves have very good medicinal functions. For example, the reed leaf can clear heat and produce fluid, remove annoyance and quench thirst; bamboo leaf can clear heat and remove annoyance, diuretic detoxification; lotus leaf can clear heat and dampness, and stomach and calm the mind. However dumplings are good, there are also troubles! The following groups of people should not eat more: 1, obesity and cardiovascular disease patients: zongzi high energy, adjuvant often fatty, high salt, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease people eat more, will increase blood viscosity, affect blood circulation, increase the burden on the heart and the degree of ischemia, often inducing angina and myocardial infarction. 2, diabetic patients: dumplings often add ingredients such as red dates and bean paste, plus glutinous rice itself is high in sugar, when eaten in excess, it is easy to cause a rapid rise in blood sugar. 3, gastrointestinal tract disease patients: dumplings oily and viscous, not easy to digest, gastrointestinal emptying slow, easy to cause excessive stomach acid, bloating and other symptoms of indigestion. 4, biliary tract diseases and pancreatitis patients: meat dumplings, egg yolk dumplings and other fat, protein content is too high, high protein high fat food when ingested at the same time, often aggravate the gallbladder stones, cholecystitis and pancreatitis patients, bringing danger. 5, the elderly and children: dumplings viscous high, for the elderly and children with weakened swallowing function and underdeveloped, prone to throat and cause life-threatening, in addition to their weak digestive function, eating too much is very easy to cause indigestion. It is capricious, just want to eat how to do? 1, three high (hypertension, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high blood sugar) and cardiovascular disease patients, the best choice in line with the “three less a more” (less oil, less meat, less sugar, more fiber) of the dumplings, the main ingredients to part of the mixed grain rice, taro or sweet potatoes instead, to reduce the intake of sugar, fat and salt. 2, patients with gastrointestinal and biliary system diseases, eat dumplings optional mixed rice dumplings, do not dip sugar, be fully heated to soften, do not eat meat dumplings, egg yolk dumplings and other dumplings with excessive fat and protein content. 3, the elderly and children: try to choose small dumplings or mini dumplings, eat with a spoon into small pieces, chew slowly, easy to digest. 4, dumplings are best eaten in the morning, lunch, should not be eaten before bedtime; eat can best drink tea at the same time, or with radish, green vegetables, to help digestion, relieve gastrointestinal discomfort. Mugwort for health. Repel mosquitoes and insects, strong body Folk proverb says: “Qingming insert willow, Duanwu insert mugwort.” Mugwort, as a herb commonly used in Chinese medicine, is warm in nature and has the effect of dispersing cold and removing dampness, warming menstruation and stopping bleeding. 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 mugwort leaves are smoked can inhibit the spread of viruses and bacteria in the air and is harmless to humans. In addition to smoking, moxa leaves are pounded into velvet and made into moxa strips and pillars, and external moxibustion can disperse cold and relieve pain and warm the qi and blood. 1. Moxa leaf balm to refresh the mind. Mugwort leaves are polished into moxa velvet and stuffed into a bag sewn with rags. 2, Mugwort leaf foot bath, nourish Yin, tonify kidney and clear down deficiency fire. 3.Bathing with mugwort leaves to expel cold and help sleep. 4.Boiled egg with mugwort leaves to help regulate menstruation. 5, mugwort salt pack, relieve back and leg pain. Take edible salt (salt can be used repeatedly) 1 catty, fry hot and add mugwort leaves 1 tael, wrap it in cloth and put it on the affected area until the salt is cool. Moxibustion for health is simple and effective: the method is simple and easy to learn, and you can operate at home yourself. Light one end of the moxa stick, burning end from the acupuncture point or local 2 ~ 4 cm smoked, so that the local skin warm flushed, to no burning sensation as degree, each acupuncture point moxibustion 5 ~ 15 minutes. Pay attention to the timely cleaning of the burning end of the moxa ash, to avoid shedding on the skin caused by burns. Mugwort cushion (sitting pad, lying pad) to increase yang energy. Sports health recommended walking Race dragon boat, cueball, pearl ball, fighting grass are passed down from ancient times in China to carry out sports at the Dragon Boat Festival. From ancient times to the present, Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to promote sports. Chinese medicine will be the essence, qi, spirit called “three treasures”, and human life is closely related. In daily life, “walking” is a simple and effective way to exercise, China’s traditional medicine that “walking for the ancestors of a hundred refinements”. Walking fitness, exercisers can choose to exercise in the morning or evening, relaxed body, head square, eyes forward, the natural swing of the two arms, the natural stride of the two legs, the pace is slightly larger than the ordinary step, the pace is slightly faster than ordinary walking, keep the spirit full, natural rhythm of breathing. When walking, it is best to achieve the state of “head and eyes are fresh, feet are hot, the whole body is slightly sweating, and the mood is happy”. In addition, playing the Eight Duan Jin or Taijiquan, jogging, swimming and other ways can also be health care body and mind.