Speaking of the Dragon Boat Festival, our first reaction was to eat dumplings. In fact, in addition to eating dumplings, there are also many other Dragon Boat Festival customs, such as drinking Chinese yellow wine, wearing sachets, hanging wormwood, etc., but many people may not know that these are Customs actually have very practical significance - to prevent insects from disease.
Yellow wine: disinfection and itching
Traditional practice is to drink realgar, but experts say that it is not advisable to drink realgar. Because Realgar contains toxic substances such as arsenic and mercury, it can easily be decomposed into arsenic trioxide when exposed to heat. It is highly toxic and can cause liver damage even when taken in small doses. The nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea appear in the light, and the central nervous system causes paralysis, confusion, coma, and even death.
Although yellow wine can't be drunk, it can be used externally. Applying realgar directly to the bite of poisonous insects and bites and long burrows and scorpions, it can disinfect and relieve itch.
Wormwood: Insect repellent
In many places, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood will be hung on the portals, calamus, willow leaves in some places, bathed in calamus water, and sprayed in front of the house. The eucalyptus contained in the leaves contains strong inhibition of microbial growth. And kill the role of bacteria, wormwood, calamus to disinfect, can be said to do more with less. Artemisia, Calendula volatilized after burning, has a good anti-mosquito effect.
Sachets: Awakening wet plague prevention
As early as more than 2,000 years ago, folks in our country had the folk customs of wearing sachets to avoid the odious gas. The sachets are commonly used in herbal medicines such as Atractylodes rhizome, shannai, and white peony, etc. Aromatic substances form a high concentration around the brain. The small environment, after the inhalation of Chinese herbal ingredients, has the effect of resuscitating and resuscitating the spleen.
