"The sages of ancient times are lonely, but the drinker keeps his name"... Wine culture has a long history since ancient times. The ancient Chinese people classified the role of wine into the following categories: wine to cure diseases, wine to pension, wine to become a gift, wine to become happy, wine to forget worries, wine to strengthen courage, wine also makes people indulge, fall, hurt the body, etc., reasonable drinking is pleasant and healthy, drinking out of control endangers health. With the improvement of people's living standards, people are also paying more and more attention to their own health, and antidote products have also come into being.
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China's ancient medical works have recorded natural medicines and prescriptions for anti-alcohol and anti-drunkenness, and the most talked about the role of liquor in ancient literature is kudzu root and kudzu flower. In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", there are about 107 kinds of antidotes, which are widely distributed among mineral medicines, animal medicines, and plant medicines[1]. The author introduced the effect of traditional Chinese medicine kudzu root in relieving wine and protecting the liver.
Definition of the drug name
Kudzu root is one of the common Chinese medicines in China, which was first published in the "Shennong Materia Medica" of the Han Dynasty, which is a dual-use medicinal and food medicinal material. Sweet, spicy and cool. Return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridians. It has the effect of relieving muscle fever, quenching thirst, diaphragm, shengyang and antidiarrhea, passing through the meridians, and detoxifying alcohol. At present, there are two kinds of medicinal kudzu in the medicinal market: wild kudzu and pink kudzu; wild kudzu refers to the dried root of the leguminous plant kudzu. Kudzu refers to the dried root of the legume kudzu vine.
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Since the 2005 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, wild kudzu and pink kudzu have been listed separately, and kudzu has been single-handedly referred to as wild kudzu in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. According to clinical efficacy feedback: the antidote and liver protection effect of pink kudzu is much worse than that of wild kudzu!
The source network of the figures, for the pink kudzu
The antidote effect of kudzu root is recorded in ancient books. Ancient texts talk about the most effective role in relieving wine is kudzu root and kudzu flower. "Prepare for a Thousand Golden Formulas": Cure drunkenness: Kudzu juice one bucket and two liters, drink, wake up, stop. "Materia Medica": Sick wine and thirst are very good. The "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" records: "Kudzu root steamed to eat, eliminate alcohol poison". "A Thousand Golden Recipes" uses fresh kudzu root mashing juice to cure drunks; "Materia Medica" uses kudzu powder to cure drunks, saying: "Sick wine and thirst, do very well." Because kudzu root has a good thirst quenching effect, it is often used to treat thirst after drunkenness. For symptoms such as headache and dizziness after drinking, diarrhea and abdominal pain, red face and thirst, kudzu can play the role of "the right medicine".
China's earliest medical monograph "Shennong Materia Medica" listed kudzu root as a medium quality, and recorded the sexual taste and efficacy of kudzu, and kudzu began to be applied to treat diseases. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" created the famous formula "Kudzu Root Soup"; Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty, conducted a systematic study of Kudzu root, believing that the stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots of Kudzu root can be used in medicine [2].
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The antidote effect of kudzu root is recorded in ancient books. In ancient texts, the most talked about the role of liquor is kudzu root and kudzu flower. "Prepare for a Thousand Golden Formulas": Cure drunkenness: Kudzu juice one bucket and two liters, drink, wake up, stop. "Materia Medica": Sick wine and thirst are very good. Kudzu root scatter: kudzu root, kudzu flower, licorice root, sand kernel, and guanzhong are divided into equal parts, for coarse powder, fried in water. Can detoxify alcohol. The "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" records: "Kudzu root steamed to eat, eliminate alcohol poison". Because kudzu root has a good thirst quenching effect, it is often used to treat thirst after drunkenness. It has a certain effect on headache and dizziness after drinking, diarrhea and abdominal pain, red face and thirst.
Anti-alcohol liver protection example application
01 Citrus aurantium drink: composed of citrus aurantium, kudzu root, goji berries, hawthorn in a ratio of 1: 1: 0.4 : 0.4, drinking before drinking can prevent drunkenness, drinking after drinking can shorten the time of drunkenness; the mechanism of its role is to enhance liver detoxification and enzymatic action, accelerate ethanol catabolism in the body, increase blood flow to brain and coronary blood vessels, and alleviate the symptoms of poisoning.
02 Liquor tea: with kudzu flowers, kudzu root, citrus aurantium, xylitol oligosaccharide and other main ingredients processed by modern biotechnology, it can quickly excrete alcohol from the body, eliminate the accumulation of residual alcohol in the liver and stomach, and achieve the purpose of sobering up the liver, strengthening the stomach and maintaining health.
03 Anti-alcohol liver preserver: Made of ginseng, red dates, licorice, mung bean, tangerine peel, goji berries, kudzu, etc. decoction in a certain proportion, it can not only reduce the alcohol concentration in the blood of drinking mice, but also resist the damage of carbon tetrachloride to the liver [3].
Why does kudzu dissolve alcohol?
Modern pharmacology has also been extensively studied on the effect of kudzu root in the treatment of alcoholism, and numerous animal experiments have proved that kudzu root extract has the effect of inhibiting alcohol absorption in large mice, accelerating alcohol metabolism, improving alcohol tolerance, reducing mortality and reducing liver damage, so as to achieve the effect of antidote and liver protection. Total flavonoids are the main active ingredient [3].
The flavonoids in kudzu root can decompose ethanol (the main component of wine), can inhibit the body's absorption of alcohol, reduce the damage of ethanol to the brain, and the effect of dialysis and antipyretic, which can well alleviate the burning sensation in the stomach caused by alcohol, reduce the stimulation of alcohol to the stomach and intestines, promote metabolism, promote blood to excrete alcohol toxins, relieve discomfort the next day after drinking, and is a natural liver alcohol metabolism enhancer.
Kudzu root can also regulate the abnormal situation of enzymes in the liver, long-term use can completely discharge the residual toxins in the liver, is a natural medicinal and food homologous herbs, is an essential health care product for drinkers. The active ingredients such as soy, soybean glycosides, and kudzu contained in kudzu root can improve the regeneration ability of liver cells and restore normal liver function; can improve myocardial ischemia, and can be used to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, angina, and myocardial infarction. It has been found that kudzu root also has the effects of delaying aging, promoting hematopoietic function, and preventing osteoporosis [4]. According to relevant literature reports, kudzu is often used in combination with naloxone, which can effectively and quickly relieve the symptoms and signs of acute alcoholism, rapidly improve the respiratory and circulatory disorders of patients with severe poisoning, and also alleviate symptoms such as headache, dizziness, and limb weakness, and has few toxic side effects, making it an ideal drug for rescuing acute alcoholism [5].
Tips for unwinding the liver of the bartender
The antidote to the liver of kudzu root is described in the following points:
01 For liquor, it is generally drunk with fresh kudzu mash juice, or only with kudzu powder.
02 It is used for vomiting and stomach discomfort caused by drunkenness, which is related to the anti-alcohol effect of kudzu root and the efficacy of kudzu root in regulating the spleen and stomach.
03 For the treatment of alcoholic liver disease, more compatible with some drugs for the treatment of related liver disease, less alone; it can also be used for the treatment of other liver diseases.
04 Kudzu has a better antidote effect than kudzu root, but kudzu flower is not as effective as kudzu root in treating liver disease.
Kudzu root has been a commonly used medicinal and food product since ancient times, as the saying goes, "there is ginseng in the north, kudzu root in the south". Kudzu was once used as a tribute to the court, and was often used as a vegetable in some areas of the south, often used as a soup. But relatively speaking, its edible value is more in modern applications. It is eaten in a variety of forms, and the more famous kudzu is eaten in the form of osmanthus kudzu powder soup, kudzu porridge, kudzu rice, and kudzu soup [6].
In addition to its good efficacy in relieving alcohol, kudzu root can also be used clinically to treat diseases such as insufficient blood supply to the vertebro-basal artery, sudden deafness, glaucoma, coronary heart disease, angina, diabetes and so on. Therefore, strengthening the research of kudzu root and developing various preparations and health care products will have good social benefits.
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