Soon we will be celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, an important traditional Chinese holiday. Traditional Chinese festivals are often instructive in people’s lives, and this is especially true of the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu, the day of the noon, Chonwu, Diwali, Zhongtian, and Danyang Festival, signifies the beginning of the most vigorous time of the year for Yang energy. Life experience also tells us that once the Dragon Boat Festival is over, the sun will look especially bright. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the heat of the sky down on the ground, the ground moisture to the air steaming, moisture and heat, most likely to breed germs, brewing all kinds of evil, making people sick. We know that the word “disease” contains a “C”, C is also fire, so disease and fire have a close relationship. Dragon Boat is the beginning of the hot season; if you are not careful, then it is the beginning of disease. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival comes, must pay attention to health and disease prevention. 1, hanging incense bag. Many places in China have the custom of hanging incense pouches on the Dragon Boat Festival, is also a method of preventing infectious diseases. Homemade Dragon Boat Festival incense sacs used in Chinese herbs such as atractylodes, patchouli, dogwood, mugwort, cinnamon, sand, dahurica, clove, etc., has the function of dispersing the wind and dispelling cold, strengthening the spleen and stomach, relieving pain and orifices. These herbs are finely ground, then placed in a dense cloth bag and sewn together. Can be worn on the chest, waist or navel, you can also hang the incense bag in the door, indoor or car, so as to play a role in preventing disease. 2, eat zongzi Dragon Boat Festival eat zongzi, is the custom handed down from ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival zongzi main ingredient: glutinous rice, the seeds of glutinous rice for the grass family herb. It is sweet in taste, warm in nature, enters the spleen, stomach, lung meridian; has the benefit of lung energy, tonic, spleen and stomach, stop the effect of sweating. Indications: Weakness of the spleen and stomach, physical fatigue, poor appetite, diarrhea, and spontaneous sweating due to Qi deficiency. Bamboo leaf is sweet, light, cold. Indications: feverish heart trouble and thirst, pharyngitis, stomatitis, swollen and painful gums, sores on the tongue and mouth, and scarce red-yellow urine. The ingredients can be chosen at will, there are jujube, hazelnut, coix seeds, peanuts, lotus seeds, gorgonians also have nourishing health. However, zongzi is sticky and difficult to digest food, can not eat more, especially the usual indigestion people, but, zongzi taste beautiful, but should not eat more, women preferably not more than 3 a day, men preferably not more than 5. The actual fact is that you will be able to eat dumplings with vegetables and fruits to help the intestines and stomach peristalsis, and you can avoid indigestion in the gastrointestinal tract caused by eating dumplings. In addition, two hours before bedtime, it is best not to eat rice dumplings, do not touch the cold melons containing a lot of water, such as watermelon, so as not to cause diarrhea or abdominal pain. For diabetic patients, red bean dumplings and sweet dumplings are not suitable to eat more. People with stomach problems can eat rice dumplings or grain dumplings; patients with gallstones, cholecystitis and pancreatitis are advised not to eat meat dumplings, egg yolk dumplings and other overly greasy and fatty, protein-rich dumplings, which may cause indigestion and flatulence. In addition, cardiovascular disease patients, the elderly and children should not eat more, eat chew slowly to facilitate digestion. In short, you need to be flexible. 3, insert moxa calamus Folk proverb says: “Qingming insert willow, Dragon Boat Festival insert moxa”. In the Dragon Boat Festival, families are sprinkling the court, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrows, hanging in the hall. Chinese medicine to moxa into medicine, there is a rational blood, warm the uterus, dispel cold and damp function. Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, is a refreshing orifice, bone stagnation, insecticide and sterilization of drugs. This is also an important element of ancient Chinese health epidemic prevention. 4, drink Xiong Huang Chinese folk have “early Dragon Boat Festival, late Mid-Autumn” said, that Chen is the dragon, Chen is the time of the dragon rain, in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival Xiong Huang wine banquet, is the people hope that the wind and rain, a good year. The method of preparing Xiong Huang wine is very simple, for adults to drink, then take a small amount of water fly treatment of Xiong Huang fine powder, the current pharmacopoeia regulations within the amount of 0.05 grams – 0.1 grams into a small bowl or cup, and then add 15 ml – 20 ml of white wine, stirring it with chopsticks to dissolve, and then the upper layer with a slight red-yellow liquor poured into the quantitative white wine, the bottom of the bowl or cup of sediment is discarded, the amount of drinking About 15 ml. The purpose of drinking Xiong Huang wine is to let the strong Qi of Xiong Huang and wine kill the evil virus and strengthen the body’s resistance at the same time. However, the main chemical component of Xiong Huang is the toxic arsenic disulfide, which becomes arsenic trioxide, or arsenic, by chemical reaction after heating. As we all know, arsenic is a highly toxic substance and is extremely poisonous. If people take it by mistake, 5-50mg can cause acute arsenic poisoning, which is characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea or watery stool, blood in the stool, accompanied by liver, spleen, kidney function damage, blood pressure drop and circulatory failure, and even central nervous system paralysis, blurred consciousness, coma and so on. For external use, it is not suitable for large-area rubbing and long-term continuous use. For first aid after poisoning, take 1 part of raw licorice and 2 parts of mung beans in a decoction of thick juice frequently. And promptly go to the hospital. 5, dragon boat paddling Dragon Boat Festival is the year’s yang to the time, the weather is more boring, if the work pressure, the human physiology qi and blood is not running smoothly, easy to irritable depression, palpitations and chest tightness. Emotional changes can affect the function of the internal organs and can lead to mental illnesses, such as happiness and sadness, anger and liver injury, and spleen injury. In summer, it is advisable to keep the qi of the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs in tune. Therefore, in addition to medicine, food therapy and a calm mind, you should also strengthen exercise. Dragon boat paddling can make the whole body blood and Qi flow smoothly, which can gain the function of heart and lung, regulate the metabolism of the spleen and stomach, and regulate the circulation of blood and Qi, so that the melancholy emotion can be opened. 6, pay attention to head health care “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” said: “May June, the weather is strong, high ground gas, popularity in the head.” Summer to pay great attention to head maintenance, good maintenance, can make people clear and refreshing, bad maintenance, will make people confused, headache, dizziness. Because the head for all the yang will, fire inflammation, the head bears the brunt, so keep the head cool after the Dragon Boat Festival is very important, hanging mugwort calamus, wearing incense pouches, dragon boat and other sports can play a role in keeping the head cool, eat some mint, drink a little tea, make a mugwort tea pillow, are a good way to lift the head dizzy. In short, the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival when Chinese medicine health an important point in time, to the Dragon Boat Festival as the beginning, do a good job of health, will benefit throughout the year, wishing friends a healthy Dragon Boat Festival.