Before the word "Kokyoyuki" was "hung on the lips of millions of people and rusted in the water vapor they breathed," its earliest source was Haruki Murakami's use to describe his sense of well-being after jogging.
Drinking, is a magnifying glass, but also a playground, all kinds of emotions and imagination can be wandering in it; drinking, is an extremely test of skill, aside from the drinking method, type, drinking scene aside, on the level of personal experience, from sober to slightly drunk to drunk, where the boundary is difficult to grasp, the amount of alcohol is often related to the mood of the day, can not be measured.
At the end of the year, various corporate liquor bureaus and enterprise annual meetings can always see some people being "persuaded to drink a glass of wine" and their faces are red and scattered, and they don't even have to wait until the end of the year, casually walking in Sanlitun at night, which is a wild anthropological drunken recording scene.
The saying "how to relieve worries, only Du Kang" has long ceased to be fashionable, alcohol is not the enemy of contemporary young and middle-aged people, "how to relieve alcohol" is.
Hangover coping strategies - from soda water to honey water, from small tomatoes to white rice porridge, the effect is mainly based on luck.
I remember waking up from a hangover and remembering that I had agreed with a friend to punch a Korean restaurant. The decanting soup that I have seen countless times in Korean dramas was finally brought to my eyes this time, waiting for the heat to dissipate, more realistic - in fact, it is just a bowl of simple bean sprout clear soup, with a little garlic, a little green onion, and some pepper that stimulates the taste buds. It is not false to return a little after drinking, but that deep sense of exhaustion can not be saved by many cans of Red Bull.
The value of the existence of liquor soup and liquor dishes has never been truly proven, and it is more like a psychological compensation after drunkenness. Of course, this did not hinder people's firm belief in it, and in human history, the problem of hangovers appeared even earlier than words.
Jamaica, 1890s. ©A. Duperly and Sons
In ancient times, the basis for people to dissolve alcohol mainly came from traditional medical texts. For example, the Tang Dynasty physician Sun Simiao's "Preparation for Emergencies and Thousands of Golden Recipes" has the saying that "sugarcane, sweet and astringent and non-toxic, lower and neutral, tonify the temper, benefit the large intestine, quench thirst and annoyance, and detoxify alcohol", and also gained a number of loyal fans, including the poet Li Qi's "Love perch fat with meals, sober wine is still pitiful to sugarcane ripe", and poet Yuan Shu 's sense of hangover after "sugarcane is sold and drunk, and Daigo wakes up and sleeps early".
In the Song Dynasty, with the prosperity of banquets and drinks, the toasts at the banquet became more and more popular, and there were also special "persuasion wine glasses", and the guests and hosts played games together, and the atmosphere was not warm. In addition, at this time, the distillation technology was still in the initial stage, and people's daily drinking was mainly based on rice wine, rice wine, and fruit wine, which was not high in degree and easy to enter, which also contributed to the high-quality drinking culture at that time.
People who have drunk rice wine may have experienced that this is a kind of alcoholic drink that is beautiful when drunk, and after drinking it, it is the same as brandy, which belongs to the style of "seeing the wind fall". Therefore, the Song Dynasty people specially invented the liquor soup "Cong", which was cooked together with sugar cane and white radish. Although "compliment" was not a positive word later, at the beginning, it was originally the dew at night, which was quite a bit of silence. Lin Hong of the Southern Song Dynasty specifically described this application scene in the "Mountain Family Qing Offering": "Snow night, Zhang Yizhai drinker. Drunk, the book He Junshifeng came out of a scoop of shoal, shared a drink with the guests, and did not feel that the drinkers were sprinkled with it. When asked about the method, it is said that the water is in the forbidden garden, and the sugar cane and the white lotus are stopped, and each one is cut into squares, and it is only boiled with water. Cover cane can make wine, and radish can also make food."
One world, one hangover. Distant similarities can be found in various countries and regions.
The soup in the Seoul area is generally made with beef bones and boiled with bean sprouts, radish, Chinese cabbage, green onions, beef blood clots, and bean paste. ©Gearpatrol.com
For example, in South Korea, in addition to the aforementioned bean sprout decanting soup, there are also such as Mingtaiyu decanting soup, bone decanting decanting soup, dried cabbage decanting soup, etc., these decanting soups have another way, relying on appetizing effects to alleviate nausea and loss of appetite after drinking. The eighth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Aunt Xue gave Baoyu a few glasses of wine, and then made sour bamboo shoot chicken skin soup to give Baoyu a solution to the wine, sour appetizer, Baoyu drank two bowls. As for the sour cucumber juice that Americans often drink when they hang out, it can also be roughly classified into this category.
In addition to learning about sake soup, there are many dishes that people use to relieve sake. In Thailand, there is a fried wide noodle called Pad Kee Mao, Chinese literal translation is "fried drunkard", I have the impression that many friends around me like to throw themselves into the fried noodles of the roadside stall after a big drink, with a drunkenness that has not dissipated to dry a bowl of greasy carbs, I think it is similar to Pad Kee Mao in Thailand.
Pad Kee Mao is usually made from pho, chicken, pork, beef or seafood stir-fried with garlic, pepper, pepper, beaten leaves, etc. ©Recipetineats.com
This spicy stir-fried powder is paired with a glass of cold beer and is the most common method used by Thais to "decant" after getting drunk in the middle of the night. It is understandable to supplement carbs after drinking to relieve temporary hypoglycemia, but the behavior of decanting with alcohol is absolutely confusing. The Soviet novelist Bhucharkov once described the ideal breakfast for hangovers: "white bread, compacted black caviar, white pickled mushrooms." Finally, there is a wine dispenser with vodka", which is a unique feast of liquor drinking belonging to the fighting peoples.
According to many people from shandong and northeast, a major drinking province, the locals do have a tradition of drinking more on the first day and then renewing two bottles the next day, commonly known as "penetrating one". Drinking liquor hangover is to drink color wine to return to the soul, drinking color wine hangover is to drink beer back to the soul (Note: color wine relative to liquor, generally refers to wine and other low degree of colored wine), in short, is "downgraded back to the soul".
Bloody Mary is a cocktail that can be served in the morning with a lower alcohol content, and many bars have secret modified recipes. ©The Blonde Cook
The same approach can be seen in many Western countries. At the 1878 Paris World's Fair, there was a method of swallowing raw eggs, putting a raw egg in a cup, plus whiskey and peppers; and the popular way of drinking with a bloody Mary. This cocktail with tomato, lemon, vodka, french clear soup, celery, chili sauce and more is refreshing just thinking about it.
Regarding the practice of drinking alcohol to detoxify alcohol, there are many studies behind it. One of the most common is to let patients ingest a large amount of alcohol in the first aid of alcohol poisoning, and use ethanol to dissolve methanol, but in this way, the situation is often that just sober and start a new round of sobering, it is still not advisable for ordinary hangovers.
According to a sample survey, even if each person had a hangover once a month, the total amount of time spent suffering over it in their lifetime would add up to two years. So let's go back to the original question, all kinds of anti-wine soups, anti-wine dishes and even anti-wine, can they really dissolve alcohol?
To understand this problem, we must first analyze several concepts: drunkenness, alcohol, and hangover.
Alcohol consumption refers to the maximum amount of alcohol that a person can consume before getting drunk, and its size is related to the speed at which the human body metabolizes and decomposes alcohol. ©Pinterest
In general, drunkenness is mainly caused by the inability of alcohol to completely decompose. After the cup of wine falls, the alcohol enters the bloodstream through the small intestine and stomach, resulting in an increase in the concentration of blood alcohol in the body. What we call "drunkenness" is that under the stimulation of alcohol decomposer (acetaldehyde), the function of nerve receptors in the brain is affected, hindering the transmission of information, making people unresponsive and out of control.
We are usually divided into "people who drink well" and "people who don't drink", which involves the process of alcoholization. After alcohol enters the human body, the liver begins to exert an antidote, relying on two liver enzymes, alcohol is first decomposed into acetaldehyde, which is then decomposed into water and carbon dioxide, and finally excreted.
This process can also explain why some people do not pour a thousand cups, and some people blush when they drink. Mainly depends on whether the body lacks enzymes to break down alcohol, in other words, people with good alcohol consumption are the chosen children, written into the genes, and cannot be demanded. As for those friends who claim that the amount of alcohol can be practiced, in fact, it is not that your liver enzymes have increased, but that the brain is no longer sensitive to alcohol, just like the more alcoholics drink, the stronger the body's tolerance is also stronger, but this is more harmful to people who are missing enzymes.
Hangover is better understood, the essence is a mild acute alcoholism, the previous night's drinking of wine is not completely decomposed and excreted, resulting in a series of chain reactions such as dehydration, causing mental and physical discomfort.
Coconut water contains a large amount of natural electrolytes that can help maintain the balance of water solvents in the body and reduce the symptoms of dehydration caused by alcohol consumption. ©Mynewroots.org
Whether it is anti-wine soup, anti-wine dishes, or various online folk remedies and life tips, if you want to solve the hangover problem, you must undertake the above logic to be successful - one is to speed up alcohol metabolism, and the other is to solve the problem of dehydration.
For the first point, people who want to get liver enzymes can basically give up, the world's various legends containing alcoholase health care products, there is no way to improve the congenital lack of enzymes, and it is even more impossible to supplement enzymes through the digestive tract, remember the enzymes that were popular in previous years? It's all the same thing.
Supplementing enzymes is not OK, let the enzyme "996" always work, right? When we opened Baidu and searched for "how to relieve hangovers," some of the answers seemed promising. For example, eating more fruits with high sugar content is like the song dynasty's collated pulp and today's watermelon juice. This claim is based on fructose's ability to speed up alcohol metabolism, but the latest research findings have found that metabolizing alcohol with fructose greatly increases abnormal metabolites in the human body and even leads to more serious metabolic X complications (Syndrome X). There is also soda, although it can improve the activity of alcoholase in the body in mouse experiments, but it cannot guarantee the effect after entering the human body.
The first path did not work, and improving dehydration became the only way. From this level, all kinds of liquor soups are preferable, one is to replenish water, the other is that the sodium and potassium elements in food are dissolved in the soup, and the lost electrolytes are also supplemented by the way.
However, it should be understood that the panacea for an instant cure for hangovers does not exist, and it is much more transparent to prevent it in advance, not to drink alcohol, or at least not to drink on an empty stomach, and to drink a lot of water in the process of drinking, than in the process of drinking. Why is it anti-alcoholic? Only painful and long waits can be relieved from fatigue after a day or a week.
Finally, I want to conclude with a quote from a bartender I like: "In a world full of hypocritical idealism, you must drink rationally."
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