Function and efficacy of sachet

Sacks sewn with silks and satins are usually filled with traditional Chinese medicine spices, such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Flos Magnoliae, Herba Menthae and Borneolum Syntheticum. These drugs used in sachets can emit natural fragrance, which belongs to the category of five fragrances in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and have the effects of inducing resuscitation, eliminating dampness, invigorating the spleen, removing filth and refreshing the mind. Modern medical research has also proved that these drugs have aromatic odor and antibacterial and antiviral effects because they contain a lot of volatile oil.

The principle that sachets can refresh people is that the unique aroma of traditional Chinese medicine in sachets acts on the brain or nasal mucosa, regulating the nervous system and refreshing people. According to the research, the fragrant smell of the medicine in the sachet can stimulate the nasal mucosa, increase the content of immunoglobulin A(SlgA) secreting antibodies on the nasal mucosa, and make it difficult for the virus to survive on the nasal mucosa and respiratory mucosa, thus greatly reducing the chance of people catching a cold.

Chinese medicine experts in the A-H 1N 1 Prevention and Control Group believe that the spices in the traditional sachet of Dragon Boat Festival can prevent colds, hand, foot and mouth disease and so on. , and has a certain mosquito repellent effect. As for the prevention of A-H 1N 1, it has not been scientifically confirmed.