Need to pay attention to several health risks after the Dragon Boat Festival
Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, June 22nd (Reporter Shuai Cai) Dragon boat races, rice dumplings, wormwood... There are many traditional customs on the Dragon Boat Festival. Experts pointed out that the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation and a festival that requires special attention to health.
Tang Xiliang, a nutrition expert and director of Hunan Chest Hospital, introduced that during the Dragon Boat Festival, people have the custom of making dumplings and eating dumplings. Zongzi is mainly made from glutinous rice, glutinous rice has a good therapeutic effect, and zongzi has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving thirst.
It should be noted that some people like to eat dumplings as snacks and desserts, which is wrong. Tang Xiliang suggested that everyone eat some dumplings with coarse grains and vegetables, which can reduce gastrointestinal burden. People with poor gastrointestinal function and diabetic patients are better off eating dumplings.
According to traditional customs, some people drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, which has hidden health risks. Tang Xiliang reminded that as a blind Chinese medicine, realgar contains poisonous arsenic salts, and drinking realgar wine has the risk of poisoning. Realgar is generally not taken orally, but only for external use. For example, applying a bit of realgar wine to the mosquito bites can play a sterilizing and disinfecting role.
The people generally believe that wormwood and calamus can repel snakes, kill pathogens, expel poison and avoid evil. Some people are used to bathing with wormwood in the Dragon Boat Festival or smoking wormwood in the room. Tang Xiliang said that people with allergic rhinitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases are not suitable for smoking wormwood in the room, otherwise it may worsen the condition.