Make your own oriental medicine bag to protect your health

Everyone, especially the elderly, need to proactively choose to use measures to prevent diseases, including a unique method of using oriental medicine bags.

In winter, the weather is cold, the cold air is strong, all activities of the internal organs tend to decline, blood circulation is difficult, the body's resistance is easily affected in a bad way. These are very favorable conditions for the emergence and development of diseases, especially respiratory and cardiovascular infectious diseases. Therefore, everyone, especially the elderly, need to proactively choose to use measures to prevent diseases, protect and improve health, including a unique method of using oriental medicine bags.

Traditional medicine bags are simply made by sewing soft cloth into a bag of suitable size, putting medicinal herbs inside, sewing it closed and wearing it on the body, as a pillow, hanging it in the house or office. Depending on the formula, each type of medicine bag has different disease prevention uses. Specifically:

Respiratory disease prevention medicine bag:50g each of Chinese clematis root, Chinese angelica root, Chinese clematis root, and honeysuckle. Dry the herbs, grind them, mix them well, and then make 15g of the powder into a small bag to wear on the body to prevent respiratory diseases such as pharyngitis, sinusitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, flu, etc.

Polygonum multiflorum, Chinese clematis, honeysuckle... are medicinal herbs that prevent respiratory diseases.

Longevity sachet:150g honeysuckle, 50g Chinese yam, 100g hawthorn (ground into powder), 100g red salvia (ground into powder), 50g schisandra. Mix the above herbs together, make a medicine bag, use to prop up the head when sleeping, has the effect of preventing high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, coronary artery circulatory insufficiency, cerebral circulatory disorders...

Lung tonic and cough suppressant bag:30g of dried ginger, 15g of perilla leaves, 10g of bupleurum leaves, 15g of Chinese clematis leaves, 20g of Chinese cinnamon leaves, 12g of cinnamon flowers. Grind all of the above ingredients into powder, put them in a cloth bag, tie the mouth tightly, and hang it in the room. It has the effect of nourishing the lungs, eliminating coughs and asthma, preventing bronchitis, asthma, and persistent coughs due to lung deficiency.

Cold medicine bag for healthy body:15g dried ginger, 10g angelica, 8g star anise, 6g cloves, 20g Chinese clematis, 20g honeysuckle. Grind the above herbs into powder, put them in a cloth bag and hang them in the house. The warm, spicy aroma spreads throughout the room, both purifying the air in the house and eliminating the feeling of coldness, and can also kill pathogens in the air, prevent diseases, and at the same time help warm the lungs and relieve coughs, increasing the body's resistance in cold winter days.

According to Health & Life