Alcohol is a double-edged sword. When consumed in moderation, it can invigorate the blood and remove blood stasis, invigorate the meridians and eliminate wind-dampness. Modern research also suggests that moderate alcohol consumption may reduce the risk of certain chronic diseases, but these benefits are limited and still controversial. So overall, the “net effect” of alcohol on human health is considered negative. China has a long history of brewing and drinking alcohol, and alcohol culture has become an important part of Chinese culture. Today we will talk about how to drink alcohol in winter in a healthy and enjoyable way. First of all, we need to know the classification of alcohol According to the production method alcohol can be divided into three categories, distilled spirits, fermented spirits and prepared spirits. White spirit belongs to distilled spirits, which is a liquor made from raw materials that are fermented to turn sugar into alcohol and then distilled to get liquor, then aged and blended. Beer, yellow wine, wine, etc. are fermented spirits, which are made by fermenting raw materials to turn sugar into alcohol, and then using pressing methods to separate liquor and sugar to obtain liquor, and then aged and blended into liquor, with a nutritional value higher than that of distilled spirits. Medicinal wine is a formulated wine, which is made from edible alcohol or distilled or fermented wine, with other raw materials (such as traditional Chinese medicine, flowers, fruits, etc.). Secondly, we need to know how to reasonably drink wine in winter 1, hot red wine Hot red wine is a red wine drinking method passed down from Germany, usually at Christmas when the German family has done Mass will drink this kind of wine. Together holding hot wine while drinking and chatting, from head to toe hot up, as if a fire in the winter. Mulled wine is red wine heated, then add cinnamon, cloves, lemon, orange peel, a little sugar, open the pot that is ready. Mulled wine has a sweet taste, which is perfect for the Chinese winter solstice when everyone has to eat sweet food such as soup dumplings, and this way of drinking makes red wine taste like Chinese elements. Suggested hot red wine, you can choose cheaper or open the bottle after drinking the rest, it is best to choose a slightly sweet red wine. 2, hot yellow wine Yellow wine, can pass the blood, warm limbs, relieve the feeling of cold. In the winter often appear gastrointestinal cold pain in the people, daily drinking a small cup of hot yellow wine, can be dispersed cold pain. When drinking hot yellow wine in winter, it is usually scalded in water to about 70℃. Yellow wine in the scalding process, which contains a very small amount of organic compounds that are not beneficial to human health, will be volatilized as the temperature rises, to reduce the harm to the body. 3, hot white wine in winter to hot white wine before drinking, because the composition of white wine is more complex, in addition to alcohol, there are a number of health hazards, such as methanol, acetaldehyde and other substances. The boiling point of acetaldehyde is only 21 ℃, the boiling point of methanol is 64.7 ℃, when heated with boiling water, they will become gas evaporation. As the Qing Dynasty Zhu Yizun that: “drinking raw wine, cold wine for a long time, two feet skin cracks, out of the water crazy paralytic swelling, more than untreatable, or damage to the eyes”. Of course, there should be a certain limit to the wine heating, not too hot, because the boiling point of alcohol is 78.3 ℃. Too hot will make the main ingredient in the wine ethanol most or all volatile. 4, it is best not to drink beer Beer is a high-calorie alcoholic beverages, 1 liter of beer calories equivalent to 200 grams of bread or 500 grams of potatoes, known as “liquid bread”. Winter people often eat hot pot and high protein food, if you drink beer, it is easy to make people fat, produce “beer belly”, can also induce gout. 5, medicinal wine should be different from person to person “Han Book – Food and Wine” said: “wine, the longest of all medicines.” There are blood, pain, cold, help Yang’s efficacy. According to its role, medicinal wine can be roughly divided into two categories: therapeutic medicinal wine and tonic medicinal wine. Therapeutic medicinal wines are medicinal wines whose main function is to treat or prevent diseases, and have certain requirements in their formulation. Although tonic medicinal wines have a certain preventive and curative effect on certain diseases, they are mainly used to nourish the human body. Therefore, it is important to recognize the symptoms of the disease and to drink. Once again, it is important to know how much and how little to drink. Children and teenagers, pregnant women and lactating mothers should not drink alcohol. If adults drink alcohol, the amount of alcohol consumed in a day should not exceed 25g for men and 15g for women. Lastly, it is important to know how to deal with drunkenness. 30g of Radix Bupleurum root, 10g of Rhubarb, and 30g of Rhizoma Puerariae root. Decoction of 200 m L of water. Take it at once when you are sober, or inject it into the stomach through the gastric tube if you are not sober. Wine poison attacking the heart: delirium or coma, unsteady gait, tremor, profuse sweating, cold extremities, pale face, incontinence of bowels, reddish-red or dark tongue, white moss; pulse or rapid counting or slight extinction. Pathogenesis: Wine poisoning obscures the orifices, injuring qi and depleting yin. Treatment: Wake up the brain and open the orifices, benefit the qi and consolidate detachment. Recommended formula: Angong Niuhuang Pill (“Articles on Warm Diseases”) or Huiyang First Aid Soup (“Reform and Error in Medical Sciences”) with additions and subtractions. 2, wine toxic liver and gallbladder syndrome: irritability and irritability, rude behavior, head and eyes distension, red face and eyes, bitter and dry mouth, abdominal distension and burning pain, yellow urine, tinnitus, or vomiting blood, or gangrene, tongue red or reddish-red, moss is yellow, pulse is stringy. Pathogenesis: Wine poison turns into heat and spreads to the liver and gallbladder. Treatment: clearing the liver and gallbladder, detoxifying alcohol. Recommended prescription: gardenia rhubarb soup plus subtractions (“the golden chamber”) plus subtractions 3, wine poison spleen and stomach certificate: nausea and vomiting, whoosh, vomit has alcohol flavor, limbs sleepy, warmth and anorexia, bad cold and body warmth, courtyard and abdominal plumpness, stools or ponds or knots, odor foul smell, tongue red, moss is thin, pulse is slippery. Pathogenesis: Wine poison congestion, damage to the spleen and stomach. Treatment: eliminating food and sobering up alcohol, regulating the spleen and stomach. Recommended formula: Ge Hua Xie Liang Tang (“Discussing and Confusing Internal and External Injuries”) plus subtractions. Li Shizhen pointed out in particular: “Alcohol is also a beautiful commodity of heaven. Drinking it sparingly will harmonize the blood and vitality, strengthen the spirit to protect against cold, and dispel sorrows. Drinking it painfully will injure the spirit and deplete the blood, damage the stomach and kill the vitality, and generate phlegm and fire, which is both beneficial and detrimental to the body.” So let’s not drink too much alcohol over a long period of time, especially in the winter, and remember what we said about how to warm up the wine in winter.