Vinegar also makes wine bitter. Tao Hongjing, a master of Taoist medicine, said: "Vinegar and wine are used everywhere. The longer the time, the better. It is also called acyl." Because it is bitter, it is commonly known as bitter wine. Dan's family adds leftovers, which is called Huachi Zuowei. There are several kinds of vinegar: rice vinegar, wheat vinegar, koji vinegar, bran vinegar, fruit vinegar, peach vinegar, grapes, jujube and other miscellaneous fruit vinegar. "Only rice vinegar is the best medicine, and the rest can be vomited, but no medicine is allowed." Vinegar is a liquid containing acetic acid, which is brewed from rice, wheat, sorghum and alcohol. All kinds of ancient millet can be used, but glutinous rice and glutinous rice are the best, followed by wheat and glutinous rice, and the rest are second. Practice, there are steamed and useful raw rice. Rice vinegar is more delicious than other kinds of vinegar, so it can be used as medicine more, and it is also full of food. Its taste is sour, bitter and warm. Chinese medicine believes that vinegar has the functions of removing blood stasis, astringing qi, reducing swelling, detoxifying, reducing qi and promoting digestion. A moderate amount of jealousy is good for health. Compendium of Materia Medica points out that vinegar is mainly used for eliminating carbuncle and swelling, eliminating dampness, killing pathogenic toxin, managing various drugs and disinfection. Treat postpartum blood circulation, remove lumps, eliminate irritability, treat women's heartache and blood gas, postpartum and trauma, bleeding and fainting, kill fish, meat and vegetables. Vinegar grinds Radix Aristolochiae to stop sudden heartache and blood gas pain. Treating aphtha by soaking in cortex phellodendri. Adjust rhubarb powder and apply detumescence poison. Raw rhubarb decoction can cure scabies, disperse blood stasis, treat jaundice and yellow sweat. According to the chemical composition analysis of vinegar, its main components are acetic acid, nonvolatile acid, amino acid, sugar, protein, nicotinic acid, vitamin (B 1, B2) and so on. Therefore, vinegar has the functions of disinfection and sterilization, reducing spicy taste and protecting vitamin C in raw materials from less loss. It can also help digestion, improve the acidic environment in the stomach and inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria. Therefore, proper jealousy is good for human health.

There is vinegar 18 square in Dunhuang suicide note and 2 1 square in Changsha Mawangdui bamboo slips. It can be said that the ancient medical prescriptions of Dunhuang suicide note and Changsha Mawangdui bamboo slips pioneered the use of vinegar to treat internal and external diseases, including beauty and hair care. The functions of vinegar in the ancient medical prescriptions of Dunhuang suicide note can be summarized as follows: ① Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dredging collaterals and inducing resuscitation. ② Nourishing yin and nourishing blood, with yang opening and yin closing. (3) There is table solution and no table convergence. ④ Antibacterial disinfection, stopping dysentery and tonifying deficiency. ⑤ Postpartum blood dizzy, tonifying deficiency and removing blood stasis. ⑥ Eliminating carbuncle and swelling, killing insects and detoxifying. ⑦ Benefiting gan and kidney, Yin rising and Yang rising. 8 beauty and hair care, delaying aging. In daily life, vinegar also has the following wonderful uses: ① On holidays, people in society are highly mobile, and friends and relatives will have a dinner and raise glasses, which will inevitably lead to the occurrence and prevalence of some diseases. Meanwhile, please use vinegar. ② Newly purchased porcelain tableware, tea set and wine set can be boiled in vinegar water containing 10% for two or three hours before use, which can remove trace aluminum from new porcelain and avoid aluminum poisoning. ③ When cooking aquatic products such as crab, shrimp and jellyfish, soak them in a solution containing 1% vinegar for one hour to prevent food poisoning caused by halophilic bacteria. (4) People who drink too much and are already slightly drunk can take 100 ~ 200ml of water containing 50% vinegar, so that vinegar and wine have a chemical reaction of "ethyl acetate", which can relieve alcoholism and nourish liver and kidney. ⑤ Tableware, tea set and wine set after meals can be boiled and disinfected with vinegar containing 1%. Prevent viral hepatitis, dysentery, typhoid fever, enteritis and other digestive tract infectious diseases. ⑥ To prevent the occurrence and prevalence of respiratory infectious diseases, doors and windows can be closed, and each room can be fumigated with 150 ml vinegar (3 ounces), which has obvious preventive effect on influenza, whooping cough and measles.

The medicinal diet method of vinegar is as follows: ① In festivals, cooking peanuts or soybeans with vinegar is a delicious food for patients with hyperlipidemia, obesity, hypertension and coronary heart disease, because it has the medical function of lowering blood fat and blood pressure. ② When eating, if fishbones and bones get stuck in your throat, you can wash your throat with vinegar-fried Chinese medicine Clematis, which can soften the bones without danger. (3) After the banquet, those who feel full of abdominal distension can be diluted with 50 ~ 100 ml vinegar to increase stomach vinegar, promote digestion and eliminate abdominal distension and food accumulation. ④ Warm vinegar soup: vinegar 30-60ml, add a little boiled water, and take it once to cure biliary ascaris. ⑤ Vinegar syrup: 2 tablespoons vinegar, sugar 1 tablespoon, slowly pour into water to prevent roundworms. ⑥ Vinegar Qigui Shaotang: vinegar 100ml, Astragalus membranaceus 30g, Cinnamomum cassia twig 6g, Paeonia lactiflora 20g, decocted in water, one dose per day for one week, to treat yellow sweat, body swelling, fever, sweating and thirst.

At present, many new varieties of health vinegar have been developed by organically combining vinegar with traditional Chinese medicine. For example, "Xiao Yun" brand health vinegar developed by Gansu Liangzhou Yimin Co., Ltd. is a green food brewed with Xiao Yun smoked vinegar, the essence of Gansu famous brand, as a pure natural resource, and 22 kinds of precious Chinese herbal medicines such as ginseng, medlar, poria cocos and Siraitia grosvenorii are used. In the superior geographical environment without chemical pollution, the ginseng in the formula is sweet and bitter, warm in nature, and enters the spleen and lungs, which has the functions of invigorating qi, promoting fluid production and calming the nerves. "Ben Jing" says, "The main body tonifies the five internal organs, calms the mind, stops convulsions, eliminates evil spirits, improves eyesight and delights in wisdom." Honey is sweet and flat, and enters the lungs, spleen and large intestine. Function: tonify middle energizer, moisten dryness, relieve pain and detoxify. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Harmony with nutrition, moistening viscera, dredging triple energizer and regulating spleen and stomach." Jujube is sweet, warm in nature, enters the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, regulating the camp and health, and detoxifying. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said: "Run the heart and lungs and stop coughing." Tonify five internal organs, treat asthenia, and remove stomach and intestines. "Lycium barbarum is sweet, flat, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the functions of nourishing the kidney and moistening the lungs, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight." "The Theory of Medicinal Properties" says: "It can replenish essence, change color, turn white, improve eyesight and soothe the nerves. "Poria cocos is sweet, light and flat. It enters the heart, spleen and lungs, and has the functions of moistening dryness and diuresis, benefiting the spleen and stomach, calming the heart and calming the nerves." "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said: "Make up for five old and seven injuries, prevent miscarriage, warm the waist and knees, enjoy intelligence and stop forgetfulness. "Mulberry tastes sweet and cold, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the functions of nourishing the liver and benefiting the kidney, calming the wind and promoting fluid production." "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" said: "Nourishing kidney, consolidating essence, and taking dark hair for a long time to improve eyesight. "Black sesame is sweet and flat, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the function of nourishing the liver and kidney and moistening the five internal organs." "Ben Jing" says: "Main injury and deficiency, tonify the five internal organs, invigorate qi, promote granulation and nourish the brain. "Nutmeg is pungent and warm, enters the spleen and intestines, and has the function of warming the middle and lowering the qi, promoting digestion and strengthening the intestines." "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said: "Harmony with middle energizer, lowering qi, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. "Siraitia grosvenorii is sweet, enters the lungs and spleen meridians, and has the function of clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines." "Records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine" said: "Stop cough and clear heat, cool blood and moisten intestines, and treat cough, blood dryness and stomach heat constipation. "All kinds of drugs have the functions of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, soothing the liver and regulating qi, strengthening spleen and appetizing, and can enhance immune regulation. This product has been tested by the health care product function testing center of the Ministry of Health. It has a good effect of regulating cellular immune function and NK cell activity (%), and has a certain adjuvant therapeutic effect on the treatment and prevention of various cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and hypertension. Long-term administration can tonify kidney and strengthen yang, soothe the liver and regulate qi, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, reduce blood pressure and eliminate phlegm, nourish blood and beautify face, moisturize skin and remove spots, beauty beauty. It is an ideal health care product for middle-aged and elderly people and the infirm after illness.

Modern medical research has proved that with the increase of age, people's lipid peroxides will continue to increase, producing toxic peroxides, which will reduce the metabolic capacity of the skin, while pigments will accumulate on the surface of the skin, forming senile plaques, weakening the tension and elasticity of the skin, thus increasing the wrinkles of the skin. Experiments show that long-term consumption of rice vinegar can not only inhibit the activity of lipid peroxide, but also reduce skin pigmentation. In addition, acetic acid, lactic acid, amino acids, glycerol and aldehyde compounds in rice vinegar also have a mild stimulating effect on human skin, dilating blood vessels and promoting blood circulation of the skin, thus achieving the purpose of delaying aging.

Therefore, it is good for human health to be jealous often, but it must be moderate and not overeating.