The old Chinese medicine reveals the medicine pillow health legend

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people's head and neck are meridian, and the points are complex. The long-term medicine pillow can make use of the temperature of the head during sleep to promote effective dispersion of the medicine and slowly and permanently stimulate the acupoints to achieve the purpose of prevention and treatment.

Ancient Chinese Buddhists and Taoists had the tradition of lying medicine pillows. The monk Yi Jing introduced the monk's commonly used medicine pillow, the occipital sac. This is a kind of straight bag sewn with rayon or cloth, filled with wool, cotton, soft leaves, dry moss, cassia seed, beans and other things. Sleeping pillow is not only soft and comfortable, but also can receive the effect of eyesight.

Taoist medicine pillows are unique.

According to records, there are two types of medicine pillows used by ancient Taoists: a magnet pillow and a cedar pillow. The magnet pillow is made by mounting the magnet on a wooden pillow. Kashiwagi pillows are made of cypress planks, and 120 holes are left on the four walls. They contain 32 drugs, such as angelica, Chuanxiong, windproof, white peony, paeonol and chrysanthemum. It is said that the pillow will have a shiny face after 100 days; in one year, the body stroke disease will naturally heal.

The medicine pillow is also highly praised by the literati.

Historical records, the popular "sleepers" customs in the Tang Dynasty. A pillow is a pillow that sews incense into the fabric. Huang Tingjian, a writer from the Song Dynasty, wrote in his poem: "The name is due to jug wine, and the winds are used to make pillows." Ma Yuanchang, a literary writer from the Yuan Dynasty, also praised himself: “At the middle of the night, my heart is three miles away.

Chrysanthemum drying for the pillow is called "Kiyo pillow", is one of the common medicine pillow.

Chen Yuanyu of the Song Dynasty said: “(Private) often takes chrysanthemums as pillows on September 9. Most of them can go to the wind and see the eyes.” Every time in the Qing Dynasty, Cixi’s Empress Dowager Chrysanthemum blooms in full bloom, always killing people to take big chrysanthemums and tearing them out. The petals are dried and crumbled and filled into bags to fill the pillow core. The ancients like to use the chrysanthemum pillow, take their characteristics such as clearing heat and clearing wind, benefiting the liver and eyesight, and resisting infection, and stimulate the head and neck skin through the “drug gas” contained in trace amounts of borneol, camphor, and chrysanthemum oil. , "Li stagnation" role, to promote the coordination of nerves, muscles and joints function, received pain relief rickets effect. When folk is used as a chrysanthemum, it is usually added with a small amount of Chuanxiong, Danpi, Baiji and so on. This three-flavored traditional Chinese medicine has the effects of promoting blood circulation, cooling heat and cooling blood, dampness and pain relief, expelling wind and relieving the symptoms, and promoting blood circulation. They are compatible with chrysanthemums and have a strengthening effect.

Chrysanthemum pillow can also cure dizziness, at night urging people to sleep, waking up in the morning to clear the eyes. Therefore, folks have a cloud: "Krypton pillow is under the head all year round, and old people don't have to take light eyes."