Wish you peace and health on Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Chinese folk festival Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is not only called Duanwu and Duanyang, but also has many nice nicknames, such as Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival and Bathing Orchid Festival.
In addition to eating zongzi and racing dragon boats, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a big festival for the whole people to prevent diseases, avoid plague and drive away drugs, and pray for health and longevity. It is commonly known as the "Health Festival". To this end, the Dragon Boat Festival health also has some special stress.

Have a light diet, strengthen spleen and stomach.
Zongzi is a traditional food during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating Zongzi can be balanced in lightness and clear in balance. It is indeed a timely tonic and dietotherapy recipe, and it is the best health food around the Dragon Boat Festival.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice is sweet and flat, and has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, appetizing and promoting digestion. As far as the ingredients of zongzi are concerned, it also has a good health care function. For example, jujube, adzuki bean, mung bean, etc. have the effects of enriching blood, calming nerves, diuresis and detoxification. It is worth mentioning that the leaves used to wrap zongzi are more exquisite. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves or lotus leaves are mostly used in the south. These leaves have good medicinal functions. Reed leaves can clear away heat and promote fluid production, remove troubles and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify; Lotus leaves can clear away heat, promote diuresis, and soothe the stomach. However, everything is in moderation. If you eat too much zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, it will be detrimental to digestion, hinder the ascending and descending of the spleen and stomach, and lead to constipation, bloating and other symptoms.
Moderate exercise can strengthen the body.
To celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, sports and entertainment activities are undoubtedly an important content.

Traditional sports during the Dragon Boat Festival, such as dragon boat race, duck grabbing in water, hiking and mountaineering, are all good recreational and fitness activities. Moderate aerobic exercise, sweating, can achieve internal and external access, balance between yin and yang, and strengthen the body; However, excessive exercise will cause physical injury, gas consumption, fatigue, dryness and heat, which is harmful to health.
Epidemic prevention and disease elimination, plague prevention and exorcism
Since the Dragon Boat Festival, there has been a folk custom of "hanging Ai people, wearing Ai Hu, drinking Ai wine, eating Ai cake and smoking Ai Ye". Wormwood is a kind of medicinal plant, which is bitter in taste, slightly warm and nontoxic, and has the functions of warming qi and blood, expelling cold and dampness, and fragrant and avoiding filth. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the air is humid, and the fragrant and fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi can get rid of poisonous gas, remove pollution, purify the air, keep the room clean and sanitary, and play the role of disinfection and epidemic prevention, expelling plague and evil spirits. In addition, Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in the Dragon Boat Festival include Acorus calamus, Artemisia annua, citronella, pomelo leaves, etc. After being decocted in water, they can be used as tea or soaked in wine, all of which have good health care effects.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the damp heat gradually increased, various fungi and bacteria proliferated, and dermatoses such as dermatitis, eczema and tinea of hands and feet began to occur frequently. Mixing herbs such as Acorus calamus, Artemisia argyi and Eupatorium odoratum, decocting in water and taking a bath can prevent these dermatoses.
Empathy and cultivation, mental adjustment and fitness
Dragon Boat Festival is a time when the sun is rising in a year. The weather is stuffy, and modern people are under great work pressure, which is easy to cause boredom and depression. People’s emotional changes will affect the function of zang-fu organs, and also lead to mental illness. As the Huangdi Neijing said, "Anger hurts the liver, likes to be sad, thinks about hurting the spleen, grieves the lungs and fears hurting the kidney". Generally speaking, if you keep healthy in summer, your mind should be calm, calm and cool, and you don’t have too many distractions, your behavior will not be anxious.
In this season, you can enjoy flowers, birds, insects and stones in your spare time, appreciate calligraphy and music to empathize and maintain a good mood; You may wish to face the things around you with an open mind and a smile, then "the righteousness stays inside, and the evil can’t be done"; At the same time, we should pay attention to going to bed early and getting up early, so as to avoid damaging body fluids and consuming fluids. If there is vaginal fluid, there will be no yang dryness, and the body will be balanced with yin and yang, so there will be no worry about annoying heat and bone steaming hot flashes.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, pay attention to diet, exercise properly, keep a good mood and use wormwood properly to dispel filth with fragrance, avoid plague and exorcise evil spirits, so that you can stay away from diseases and enjoy the beauty of the seasons.
Expert introduction: Zhou Bingduo

Deputy Director of Gastroenterology, Yueyang Hospital
Deputy director of medical doctor, tutor of master students, associate professor
Postdoctoral fellow at Mayo Clinic, USA, the first batch of "National Innovative Talents of Traditional Chinese Medicine", the first "Shanghai Xinglin Rising Star" and the first batch of "Xinglin Inherited Talents of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine". He is also the vice chairman of the Youth Committee of Spleen and Stomach Diseases Branch of Chinese Medicine Association, the standing committee member of china association of traditional chinese medicine Digestive Diseases Drug Research Committee, the standing committee member of Spleen and Stomach Diseases Branch of Chinese Ethnic Medicine Association, and the standing committee member and secretary of Spleen and Stomach Diseases Branch of Shanghai Chinese Medicine Association. He presided over 2 national natural science foundations, 3 scientific research projects of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, published nearly 30 papers, and won the first prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Award for Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Original title: "[Dragon Boat Festival Science Popularization] Dragon Boat Race with fragrant leaves, keeping healthy and moving during the Dragon Boat Festival"
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