Wine, often used as a drink at the feast, has a long history of use in medicine. As early as 2,000 years ago, in the thirteen directions of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", it was recorded that wine was used to treat diseases, such as the "mashing" of the "Suwen Tang Liquid Mash", the "Left Corner Wine" of the "Suqin Miao Thorn Theory", the "Chicken Ya liquor" of the "Suqin And Abdominal Treatise", the "Horse Paste Paste" method of the "Lingshu Jingjian Chapter", the "Cold Paralysis Ironing Method" of the "Lingshu Shou Tian gang soft article", etc., all of which used wine, which not only had internal administration agents, but also external uses, which for the development of medical liquor in later generations. It has had a profound impact.
Later Han Zhang Zhongjing on the basis of the "Inner Classic", he wrote "On Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", he recorded more prescriptions for the use of wine, such as "Typhoid Fever Theory : Identification of Sun Disease Pulse Evidence and Treatment" contains: "Typhoid Pulse Generation, Heart Palpitation, Hot Licorice Soup Master" The licorice soup recipe is fried with sake and water, and the sake is the aroma of rice wine, taking wine to publicize the hundred pulses, circulating qi and blood, making the meridians smooth and introducing medicines to work better, qi and blood, through tunnels, then yin and yang are flat, the pulse is restored and the heart palpitations are at ease. Over the years, when I was witnessing, I compared the use of licorice soup with wine and no wine, and I felt that there was a difference in its efficacy.
To give an example, Yao Jinxiu, a member of the Lisheng Brigade, suffers from palpitations and pulse knots. I use the hot licorice soup recipe, at first several diagnoses did not ask to add wine, and the effect is not obvious, and then when the diagnosis is again, it must be added to the wine when decocting, and the effect after taking is remarkable, which shows the rigor of the combination of the jingfang, the compatibility of the medicine, and if the party does not add wine to fry, the efficacy is also there, but it is relatively slow.
Another example is the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever, Discerning the Evidence and Treatment of Yin Disease Pulse Evidence": "Those who are cold in the hands and feet, and those whose veins are delicate and desperate, angelica is the lord of the four reverse soups." If there is a person who has been cold for a long time, it is advisable to add wu zhu ginger soup with angelica four reverses." This recipe is fried with sake, and it helps the medicine to invigorate the blood and disperse the cold for a long time. Another example is the "Golden Shortage of Essentials , Chest Palsy Heartache Shortness of Breath Disease Pulse Evidence and Treatment" said: "The disease of chest palsy, wheezing and coughing, chest and back pain shortness, the pulse of the mouth is heavy and late, close the small tight number, including the white wine soup master." "Chest paralysis can not lie down, heartache through the back, melon and white half summer soup lord." The above two parties are based on liquor as medicine, and the liquor called in the party is called liquor, according to the "Qianjin Fang" and "Outer Terrace Secrets": "Liquor is the first ripe rice wine", and rice wine is now mashed. The liquor sold in the market is also called shochu, but it is very inconsistent in clinical application, using sorghum wine and Shaoxing wine. However, in terms of use, it should be appropriately selected according to different conditions such as condition, physique, nature, etc., and should not be restricted.
When Yu was studying medicine, when he was studying with his teacher, he encountered an elderly patient one day, who suddenly suffered from chest tightness and severe heartache, shortness of breath, sweaty head, cold hands and feet, and severe illness. According to its veins are tight and the tongue is greasy, the teacher asks the patient whether he will drink alcohol. A: "Yes". The teacher then prescribed six dollars for melon, four dollars for white flowers, three dollars for half a summer, five points for light tablets, five points for dried ginger, and four or two points for white wine, and asked his family members to add water and fry them quickly, and taught me: This is the chest palsy heartache evidence contained in the "Outline of the Golden Plateau". The square is flavored with white half summer soup with melon and grass. Among them, liquor is a must-use medicine, because the wine is hot, it can pass through the blood veins, and help the medicinal power, the blood veins are smooth, and the general is not painful. The next day, his family invited a follow-up consultation, and after Yun took the medicine, his heartache gradually stopped, and he was able to lie down last night and asked to go to the follow-up consultation. In this way, I yixin teacher is familiar with the scriptures, and deeply understands the essence of zhongjing formula medicine.
Another example is the "Golden Plateau: Evidence and Treatment of Women's Pregnancy Diseases and Cures": "The teacher knows: Women have leaks, there are those who continue to bleed after half-childbirth, there are those who bleed under pregnancy, if the pregnancy is painful, it is a cell obstruction, and the glue soup is the master." "Jiao Ai tang fang uses sake to carry out medicinal potential, combined with the whole party, can stop bleeding with blood, can also warm the palace to adjust menstruation, but also can treat abdominal pain, safe the fetus, so this formula is an effective formula commonly used in gynecology."
Another example is the "Golden Kuai Jiao: The Evidence and Treatment of Women's Miscellaneous Diseases": "The woman has sixty-two kinds of winds, and the blood in her abdomen is stinging, and the red and blue flower wine lord." "One or two medicinal safflowers, a large liter of wine, frying halved, not stopped to take again." According to this formula, wine is also used, wine can be bloody, safflower can activate blood and relieve pain, and the combination of the two drugs will cure the wind and cure the blood first, and the blood will also destroy itself. When I usually testify, where the woman due to wind chill caused by amenorrhea abdominal pain, or menstrual period, less abdominal cold pain, often use this formula decoction, or with safflower one or two, sorghum wine a pound, soaked in the morning and evening to take half two, (the specific dose flexible grasp) can often receive satisfactory results, this formula is cheap and beautiful, sincere prescription also. Unfortunately, some clinicians now rarely use it.
Folk in our township, often use brown sugar shochu to stew warm internally, in order to cure the abdomen by the cold pain, often get results, because brown sugar sweet temperature, wine heat, warm blood, that is, take the sweet to slow, heat to cure the will of the cold.
According to preliminary understanding, in some areas, such as Yixing and other places, there is such a traditional habit that women must drink some wine after giving birth. (Exception of not drinking) What is the reason for this? I think: wine is warm, can activate blood stasis, Chinese medicine has "blood stasis does not go, new blood does not grow" theory, drink some wine after childbirth, is conducive to nourishing blood and blood, early recovery of health!
Comrade Wang Baochuan, secretary of the party branch of our hospital, began to suffer from coronary heart disease in October 1975, (diagnosed by many electrocardiograms and cardiovascular physicians) often felt that the chest and chest were tight and bloated, the left shoulder and back were uncomfortable, the fingers were numb, the limbs were cold, the pulse was knotted, the heart rhythm was irregular, and the early beat sometimes reached 8 to 10 times per minute, especially at night. He has taken western medicines such as panshengdine, xindening, and lactic acid heart, but can only temporarily reduce the nodal pulse (premature beat). Since 1976 began to take traditional Chinese medicine, according to the dialectics, has been used melon and white liquor soup, hot licorice soup and other additions and subtractions (FangZhong often added danshen, safflower, red peony and other blood-activating stasis drugs), after taking a period of time, and then with white ginseng soaked in sorghum wine (the proportion is one pound of wine, ginseng one or two) every day when sleeping and half two during the day, after taking the knot vein no longer appears, and with a stethoscope often reviewed, pre-period contraction is indeed eliminated, night and can sleep peacefully, so far more than five years have not occurred, good health.
Since February last year, the author has often had a vein vein at night, and felt that there was a sense of oppression in the precordial area, and at that time, he also used white ginseng to soak in wine, 10 ml before going to bed at night, often drank a small amount of beer during the day, often did jogging exercises in the morning and after dinner, and after that, the knot vein and other evidence gradually disappeared.
Wine, in medicine is indeed very widely used, Yu in the early years of medical practice, every time the sores and initial onset of patients, often instructed to take "xian fang live drink", with wine each half decoction, external vinegar to adjust Chen xiao powder (starch) to apply to the affected area, so that the combination of internal and external treatment, the effect is very good. For example, before the liberation of malaria epidemic in our township, I tried to add or subtract "malaria seven treasure drinks", decoction in an appropriate amount of wine, and took it two hours before malaria was received, one dose stopped, and then the dose was healed, and the effect was both rapid and reliable. This side of the wine, one can make the active ingredients of Changshan and other drugs easy to release, the second can stop the side effects of Changshan easy to induce vomiting, three wine can be the most bloody, auxiliary power, after taking can quickly introduce drugs into the blood, has the effect of accelerating the inhibition and killing of malaria parasites, and make malaria symptoms timely control. If you do not add wine and frying, one is easy to make patients vomit, and then often can not control the symptoms of malaria in time, which is a valuable experience accumulated by the predecessors, and I have only further verified it through practice.
Usually encounter dizziness tinnitus insomnia forgetfulness, waist acid weakness, pulses of patients, Yu often ordered to walnut meat with rice wine steamed after taking, twice a day, the effect is also very good. Li Shizhen, a famous pharmist in China's Ming Dynasty, said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": Walnuts have the effect of "replenishing qi, nourishing blood and beneficial life". "Famous Doctors" contains: the wine owner "the essence of medicine". With walnuts warm, wine can pass through the blood veins, and the combination of the two medicines will replenish qi and nourish the blood, benefit the kidneys and cure weakness, and complement each other.
For patients with wind chill and wet paralysis, Yu often uses the addition and subtraction of paralysis soup according to different situations such as the partial victory of wind, cold and wet evil, the strength of righteous qi, the rise and fall of qi and blood, and the medicinal qianghuo, windproof, turmeric, angelica, red peony, astragalus, ginger, etc. as the basic formula. For example, those with heavy winds reuse windproof, sea breeze vine, Qin Gang, Wujiapi, etc. to dispel wind, and those with cold bias plus dried ginger and guizhi are mainly used to dispel cold; those who are wet and partial to add raw amaranth, Cangshu, and Amaranth are mainly used to reduce dampness, those with upper body joint pain use Qiang live, and those with lower body pain use solo life; those with waist pain add chuan break, dog ridge, eucommia, and mulberry parasitism; those who are not weak in righteous qi can go to astragalus; those who are sick for a long time and have two deficiencies of qi and blood add beneficial qi and blood nourishing medicine. In addition, such as the snake, Aoki Xiang, Welling Immortal, Millennium Jian, ox knee, self-defense, etc. can be appropriately selected, the above drugs, the dosage can be flexibly mastered according to the specific condition, and instructed to use sorghum wine soaked often, soaked for two weeks in summer, soaked for three weeks in winter, or put the medicine and Shaoxing wine in a casserole pot sealed and covered tightly, steamed for three hours in water, and then filtered out the dregs, you can take. However, the wine should choose a good quality one, which is easy to store, otherwise it is easy to deteriorate and fail. In this way, the dialectical drug is soaked in wine, and more effects can be obtained after taking. However, for a certificate of heat paralysis, it is not advisable to use wine, and it is appropriate to fry the medicine with water. According to pharmacological reports, the active ingredients of some chinese medicines often need to be extracted from wine and alcohol, such as schizandra water frying is not as good as alcohol extraction, salvia decoction is not as good as tinctures, etc., so at present, new drugs (including some Chinese medicines as raw materials) are extracted from wine and alcohol.
Wine, if concentrated through processing, becomes 95% medicinal alcohol, which is also called ethanol. Alcohol topical rubbing bath can dilate capillaries and promote heat dissipation and cooling, so it is often used for adjuvant treatment of patients with high fever. And Chinese medicine and folk massage, also commonly used shochu, take its dredging qi and blood, relax the muscles and activate the blood, eliminate the role of disease and evil. Alcohol is diluted to a concentration of 75% and is often widely used in skin disinfection. Sorghum wine is generally about 60 degrees, Shaoxing wine is about 30 to 40 degrees, beer is about 5 to 6 degrees, (the degree on the label is the number of wheat precision) Rice wine is fermented and becomes rice vinegar.
Rice vinegar is also known as bitter wine, such as "Typhoid Fever Theory, Identifying and Treating the Pulse evidence of Shaoyin Disease", which says: "Shaoyin disease, throat injuries, sores, can not speak, can not speak, the bitter wine soup master." "Medicinal use of the acid of bitter wine, take the acid to collect it, and astringent the sores of the throat." With the spice of half summer, take the spice to scatter it, match the chicken with sweetness, take the sweetness to slow it, make a sound, and ease the sore throat. Vinegar can also be used to prevent and treat certain diseases, such as winter and spring, colds, influenza and other respiratory diseases are more likely to occur, how to prevent? In addition to strengthening exercise, strengthening physical fitness and taking certain necessary medicines, fumigating the room with vinegar has a good disinfection effect. Experiments have proved that vinegar fumigation rooms do have obvious effects in killing influenza viruses.
Vinegar, but also can prevent dysentery, in the summer and autumn dysentery epidemic season, you can often eat some vinegar to increase the power of the stomach to kill dysentery bacillus. According to the theory of Traditional Chinese medicine that "roundworms get acid and then volt", vinegar can relieve the colic pain of biliary intestinal roundworm disease, and roundworms can get acid and be quiet. Alcohol, after oral administration, can be absorbed by the stomach and intestines, enter the bloodstream, and quickly spread throughout the body. Take the treatment of "coronary heart disease": because wine is absorbed quickly in the body, enters the bloodstream, passes through the heart, promotes rapid heartbeat, promotes coronary artery expansion and smoothness, and can make the formation of collateral branch circulation. As a result, the coronary blood flows smoothly and the nodal vein (premature beat) disappears. In modern times, some cardiovascular experts also advocate drinking a small amount of grain wine, such as beer, etc. for "coronary heart disease", which has a certain therapeutic effect.
Wine, a small amount of drinking, can make the spirit uplifted, a large number of excessive drinking, can cause anesthesia poisoning, so the use of wine to treat the disease, must be based on the tolerance of each person is different, and properly grasp its dose, the treatment of disease is better to start in a small amount, and then a small amount of gradual increase. Chinese medicine believes that wine, internal use, are generally suitable for yin, cold, blood stasis and other evidence. (Exception to drug preparation) And patients with high fever hemorrhage, yin deficiency liver and yang hyperactivity, thirst quenching, epilepsy, fever, drug poisoning, infants and young children, and patients who do not take alcohol (people with allergic reactions to spilling), should be contraindicated. Therefore, drinking less is beneficial, and drinking too much is harmful.
In modern times, there are many kinds of drugs made of wine, and there are countless, such as those used to tonify and strengthen, there are ten complete tonic wine, Shouwu wine, berry wine, multi-whip wine, etc., used to treat rheumatic bone pain, such as tiger bone papaya wine, Shi Guo Gong liquor, Feng Sex Medicinal Liquor, etc., as well as clinical stomach such as gentian herb made of bitter tincture, used for anti-emetic such as ginger tincture, etc., used for diarrhea such as bayberry wine. I used to taste chicken ya vine soaked in wine, which was also used to treat pain evidence. In terms of injuries, injury medicine is also commonly used to take rice wine and so on. In short, they all take its effect of activating blood and relieving muscles and performing stasis and pain.
Wine, according to the "Chinese Medical Dictionary", said: wine can disperse cold stagnation, open stasis knots, eliminate diet, dredge meridians, and reconcile camp guards. The Dictionary of Practical Medicinal Properties contains: wine is the blood vein, the auxiliary power is the medicine, and the Chinese Medicine (Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, edited in 1959) contains: wine, sexual taste bittersweet and spicy, big heat, into the Twelve Classics, function and blood circulation, auxiliary power, indications for the treatment of tendon cramps and other evidence.
Wine, also used in the processing of traditional Chinese medicine, can improve the efficacy, reduce side effects, or change its function, for example: angelica wine stir-frying can more live blood, Huanglian wine stir-fried good cure mu chi, skullcap wine stir-fried lung fire, rhubarb wine system can line the upper part, Qing shang scorched heat, Yanhu wine stir-fry can relieve pain and blood. Pills loose wine, can strengthen the effect, such as potato pre-pills, rhubarb insect pills, red pills, angelica peony powder, angelica powder, white art scatter, potato root scatter... In addition, Chinese medicine vinegar stir-fry, can be into the liver and astringent, and enhance the effect of pain relief. Such as Yanhu vinegar stir-fry, both pain relief and hemostasis, fragrant vinegar stir-frying, kidney pills into the liver meridian, etc., and the current traditional Chinese medicine, processing, it is difficult to be authentic, really regret!
In summary, the use of wine in medicine is very extensive, it can involve internal, external, gynecological, child, injury, acupuncture and massage, traditional Chinese medicine processing, prevention and other subjects of partial adaptation of the disease. It can be seen that wine is indeed a good medicine. It has been used for a long time since ancient times. And now some Chinese medicine books, but the wine is excluded from the drug, it is too neglected!
This article is excerpted from the "Suzhou Old Chinese Medicine Experience Anthology", published in 1988. Author/Shi Zhile, All-China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Branch, Jiangsu Province