Let's talk about homemade medicinal liquor first. Self-made medicated wine is to take healthy foods such as medlar and ginseng and soak them in wine.
These foods and herbs are rich in some nutrients or contain some medicinal effects. However, soaking these substances in wine will not amplify their efficacy, that is, it will not increase nutrition or enhance the efficacy. It is more practical to soak healthy food directly in water.
Let's talk about the brand medicinal liquor sold in the market. This medicinal liquor is also one of the traditional health care products. The medicinal liquor produced by regular wineries is indeed much safer than the homemade medicinal liquor, and the substances contained will be more clear. As for the function of health care, we won't comment on it, but alcohol does great harm to organs such as liver.
To sum up, medicinal liquor is essentially wine, and the efficacy of brewing medicinal materials is still unclear, but the harm of alcohol is in front of us. Therefore, it is not recommended that you drink medicinal liquor to achieve the health care effect.
As we said above, the essence of medicinal liquor is wine. Some cardiovascular patients may say that drinking medicinal liquor makes them feel warm and even lowers their blood pressure? Is drinking medicinal liquor good for blood vessels?
In fact, these are all normal reactions after drinking. After drinking alcohol, because alcohol dilates blood vessels and accelerates blood circulation, the body warms up. In this way, the heat in the body will be distributed to the body surface through the skin more and more quickly, and people will feel warm. However, it is worth noting that such warmth consumes more calories of the human body, but it will gradually become colder and colder.
Blood pressure drops because blood vessels dilate and blood flows faster, so blood pressure will certainly drop. But this antihypertensive effect is very short-lived. However, the adverse effects of drinking on the three high blood vessels are lasting:
The research shows that the blood pressure level of heavy drinkers (≥3 standard cups/day) is significantly higher than that of moderate drinkers and non-drinkers, and there is a linear positive correlation between alcohol consumption and blood pressure. [ 1]
Because after drinking alcohol, the metabolized acetaldehyde will dilate capillaries and make blood vessels contract, thus raising blood pressure. Acetaldehyde can also activate the sympathetic nervous system, leading to the secretion of adrenaline and the release of angiotensin II, both of which will lead to an increase in blood pressure. Not only that, it will also accelerate the heart rate and easily lead to arrhythmia.
There is no doubt that long-term drinking will make blood lipids abnormal.
On the one hand, alcohol can make the smooth endoplasmic reticulum of the liver proliferate, increase the activity of microsomal enzymes, and cause the increase of very low fat density lipoprotein. The amount of triglycerides synthesized by the liver will also increase. So it will cause blood lipids to rise.
Moreover, when drinking, you will generally consume a lot of meat, oil and high-calorie food, which will also cause dyslipidemia.
Long-term drinking will cause oxidative stress damage to islets, damage islet cells, affect insulin receptors, affect glucose metabolism in the body, and reduce islet function. Thereby causing diabetes.
We all know that we can't take antibiotics such as cephalosporin when drinking. In fact, drinking alcohol is not recommended when taking some cardiovascular drugs.
Like aspirin. Drinking alcohol while taking aspirin will aggravate the damage of gastric mucosa and cause gastrointestinal bleeding.
It is also best not to drink alcohol when taking antihypertensive drugs, because drinking alcohol after taking some antihypertensive drugs will aggravate the reduction of blood pressure, or reduce the effect of some drugs and increase blood pressure. Either way, it will have a bad effect on blood vessels.
Drinking alcohol during taking hypoglycemic drugs may lead to hypoglycemia. Drinking alcohol while taking sleeping pills can seriously inhibit the brain.
Therefore, cardiovascular patients who take drugs for a long time should not drink alcohol.
In addition, long-term drinking will make arterial elasticity disappear, vascular fragility increase, and it will also cause obesity and snoring at night. It is extremely harmful to the cardiovascular system, so it is not recommended for cardiovascular patients to drink alcohol, and medicinal liquor is not good.
Self-made medicinal liquor must be careful for several reasons:
1, material selection is risky.
Some people will soak wine with live scorpions, fish gall, snakes and other poisons. Others will use some plants to soak wine, and some plants use aconitine, which is so toxic that most people can't tell it apart.
These animals and plants themselves contain toxicity, which will not disappear because they are soaked in wine, and some will increase toxicity.
2, the dose is risky
Some people like to soak wine with medicinal materials. Medicinal materials are medicines, so pay attention to the dosage when eating. For example, both Radix Aconiti and Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii are treated with traditional Chinese medicine and have strict dosage requirements. It's not that professionals can't grasp this amount at all, and exceeding a certain amount will kill them.
Although some medicinal materials will not kill people, eating too much will also have an impact on the body.
Therefore, it is not recommended that you brew your own medicinal liquor, and you are not encouraged to drink medicinal liquor or even any alcoholic beverage. If you want to stay healthy, you still have to choose a more reliable method.
References:
Xie Yi, Wang Xue. Relationship between long-term drinking and blood pressure, blood lipid and blood sugar [J]. West China Medicine, 2008(06):284-285.