In China, medicinal liquor has been used to treat diseases or health care for a long time. In the earliest Chinese medicine classic "Huangdi Neijing", there is a special article about the dietotherapy function of wine-On Tang Lao Zao (Wu Kun's note: "Anyone who makes wine from the valley is famous for Lao Zao." )。 It can be seen that the history of using wine for health care and treatment can be traced back to ancient times. Among the thirteen prescriptions recorded in Huangdi Neijing, there are medicinal liquor, such as Su Wen's theory of abdomen and Miao Ci's theory of treating chicken swelling and corpse syncope. Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases in the Eastern Han Dynasty also recorded a lot of medicinal liquor, such as Trichosanthes kirilowii garlic liquor soup, red and blue flower wine and so on. Later generations, more and more people used wine as medicine or wine preparations, and their application and treatment were increasingly extensive, with high curative effect, which greatly enriched the dosage forms and treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Medicinal liquor has become one of the common dosage forms for people's health care and clinical treatment.

In the voluminous ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine, there are rich records about health care or clinical treatment of medicinal liquor, and various secret recipes and prescriptions of medicinal liquor are even more colorful. On the basis of inheriting predecessors' experience in using medicinal liquor, modern physicians have also given full play to the health care or clinical treatment function of medicinal liquor, and new ideas, innovative methods and prescriptions have emerged one after another, greatly enriching the content of disease prevention and treatment of medicinal liquor. However, most of these contents are scattered in various books or newspapers and magazines, and it is not easy for people to review and use them, just like a treasure house to be explored, inherited and carried forward.

Li Shizhen said, "Wine is a beauty in the sky. This kind of wine, dough koji, will promote blood circulation, strengthen the heart against the cold and dispel worries; Drinking too much hurts the mind and consumes blood, hurts the stomach and kills sperm, and makes a fire. " It is incisively pointed out that drinking less is beneficial and drinking more is harmful. For medicinal liquor, the dosage should be strictly controlled, and it must not be drunk at will.