Is drinking "for illness" or "for death"?
As far as the general view of traditional Chinese medicine is concerned, drinking is more in the category of treating diseases.
First of all, most ancient medical masterpieces in China defined the efficacy of wine as "dredging blood vessels, warming stomach and preventing cold". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Wine is warm, hard, warm can drive away cold, pungent can disperse stagnation, promote qi and promote blood circulation".
Simply put, ancient Chinese medicine believed that drinking can play a certain degree of heat preservation effect, which is very suitable for drinking in autumn and winter, especially for people in cold areas.
Secondly, the wine tastes spicy and sweet. Spicy taste can help the body dissipate moisture, and sweet taste can supplement the body's blood gas. It can be said that the ancient people's evaluation of wine has always been positive.
Furthermore, the largest encyclopedia in ancient China, Natural History, also records: "One person drinks, one person is full, and one person is empty. People who eat on an empty stomach die, people who are full are sick, and people who drink are healthy. This wine is more evil than anything else. " Through an experience story, it tells the role of drinking to repel insects and strengthen the body to avoid evil spirits.
To sum up, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, drinking does have many benefits.
Put it here.
There may be some friends who like to drink.
Can't wait for a drink.
Please calm down.
Although the ancients advocated drinking more
But it is still different from what we call wine.
first
The raw materials are different.
In ancient times, wine was called "the essence of five grains" by the ancients. That is to say, in ancient times, most of the drinks were alcohol produced by grain fermentation, which belonged to natural distilled liquor, and chemical additives and artificial ethanol naturally did not exist. Drinking it will cause a certain metabolic burden on the liver, but drinking it properly is not easy to cause hidden dangers.
Nowadays, most of the liquor is artificially blended alcoholic liquor, and the content of chemical ethanol is very high, which undoubtedly causes a huge burden on the liver.
then
They have different purposes.
According to the description of ancient books, it is not difficult to find that the wine used in ancient medicine in China was mostly used for curing diseases and preserving health. This means that the varieties of ancient wine are mostly medicinal liquor. There are many traditional Chinese medicine ingredients that are beneficial to the human body. As mentioned above, most of the functions of alcohol, such as warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, killing insects and strengthening the body, are contained in medicinal liquor. It is precisely because of this that the ancients and wine, like modern people's views on "medicine", have some drawbacks, but they are always a good cure.
Modern wine, on the other hand, exists as a food culture, and the dosage and time of drinking are not clearly defined, just like the ancient "drug abuse". Over time, the burden of alcohol intake in the liver is getting heavier and heavier, which is naturally harmful to health.
It can be seen that ancient people's drinking methods and views on wine are basically different from those of modern people, which will naturally lead to polarization of wine health.
pass by
If we drink,
What should I pay attention to?
Drink "health wine" when drinking.
What is health wine? From the above conclusions, we can find the answer. For example, the grain wine brewed by the ancients purely by hand, such as yellow rice wine and grain wine, or adding medicinal liquor suitable for soaking in traditional Chinese medicine on this basis, all belong to the category of health wine.
Drinking some health wine properly can not only make good use of its efficacy, but also achieve the effect of expelling cold, tonifying middle energizer and nourishing blood, and also avoid the stronger metabolic burden and carcinogenic influence brought by modern alcohol to some extent.
Drink and watch the time.
Ancient Chinese medicine attaches importance to wine, just as we modern people attach importance to medicine. Taking medicine requires time, and alcohol is no exception. According to the records of related Chinese medical classics, wine belongs to warm and cold grains and body fluids. It can dispel cold and tonify middle energizer, and the corresponding time period is naturally from night to bedtime.
Chinese medicine believes that during the period from night to bedtime, the yang of the human body will be reduced and lost more. If we can drink some wine properly and improve the operating efficiency of human yang, we can ensure that the yang will remain more at this peak of yang loss. When sleeping at night, yang protects the body temperature, which can naturally play a role in warming the middle and driving away the cold and keeping warm.
Drink alcohol in moderation.
This is also the most important point, which is also classified as the nature of drugs. Chinese medicine uses wine just like western medicine. It depends not only on the time, but also on the dosage.
here
Here comes a new problem.
How to grasp the "quantity" of drinking?
don't worry
Chinese medicine teaches you to measure.
In fact, strictly speaking, everyone's liver health is different, and the standard of "healthy metabolism" of natural alcohol is also different. The so-called healthy metabolism is the normal amount of alcohol that the liver can metabolize without affecting its specific metabolic function.
Everyone can accept different amounts of alcohol, and naturally the acceptable standards are different, but the doctor reminds everyone here that drinking is still "less" rather than "more". Even if the amount of alcohol is good, it is better to drink less.
The doctor set a reference value for everyone: it is best not to exceed 50g every day.
Although the current mainstream view is that
Drinking is harmful to health.
But from the perspective of Chinese medicine,
Everything is dialectical.
From the point of view of the ancients
Change your drinking style appropriately.
It is possible to reduce injuries.
Good for health.
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