In ancient China, besides being a drink, wine was once regarded as medicine. Besides being a drink, its biggest function is to treat diseases. Wine is brewed from grains and distiller's yeast. It is strong and clear, sweet and pungent, and hot and non-toxic. It has the effects of warming blood vessels, invigorating spleen, warming stomach, removing blood stasis, resolving hard mass, relaxing bones and muscles, relaxing joints, moistening skin and eliminating cold and dampness. Ban Gu called wine "the master of all kinds of medicines" in Hanshu Shihuo. In ancient times, doctors often used wine to treat diseases. In ancient times, the word "medicine" was one yuan (wine), which shows the close relationship between wine and medicine.
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Red wine and yellow wine are one of many health wines. However, the health function of red wine is mainly anti-oxidation, and related research shows that red wine has the function of protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Compared with imported red wine, yellow wine originated in China and has a longer history. As a health wine since ancient times, it is more in line with China people's understanding of the concept of health preservation.
Yellow rice wine, brewed from glutinous rice, japonica rice and millet, is a low-alcohol wine with an alcohol content of 14%-20%, which is more suitable for daily health care. In the brewing process of yellow rice wine, various nutrients in grain raw materials are retained, and saccharifying gum can be produced, which is beneficial to human health.
There are various drinking methods of yellow rice wine, and different drinking methods will produce different effects. Drinking yellow wine cold can promote digestion, dissolve accumulated food, and calm the nerves. Hot yellow rice wine can dispel cold and dampness. Cooking rice wine with longan or litchi, red dates and walnuts can play a certain role in invigorating qi and blood. Taking yellow rice wine as a drug guide and adding Chinese herbal medicine, it is easier to dissolve the effective components in the drug and is easy to be absorbed by the human body. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that "all kinds of wines are different, but rice wine is used as medicine". Yellow rice wine is yellow rice wine. It can be seen that people have always used yellow rice wine as a wine base to make health care wine, which shows that yellow rice wine has a natural blending factor or affinity with Chinese medicine.
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