Nine herbs that can “relieve alcohol”

     Alcoholism and drunkenness cause physical discomfort, which has been called “alcohol poisoning” in traditional Chinese medicine. Throughout the ages, medical practitioners have found that certain herbs are effective in relieving excessive alcohol consumption, but their mechanism has yet to be studied. This is recorded here for reference.    Citrus aurantium can treat drunkenness, fever, thirst, vomiting, and unfavorable bowel movements. The “Diannan Materia Medica” clearly states that it “treats all left paralysis and right paralysis, rheumatism and numbness, and can relieve the poison of alcohol ……”. In addition, hedgehog wood with seeds can also solve alcohol.     It is good at detoxifying alcohol, waking up the spleen and stomach, and quenching thirst. It is used to treat excessive drinking, headache and dizziness, irritation and thirst, vomiting, and fullness in the chest and diaphragm. In the Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach, there is a soup of Pueraria Mirifica to relieve the effects of drunkenness, and in the Diannan Materia Medica, there is a pill of Pueraria Mirifica to clear the heat, both of which are used to treat drunkenness. In addition, kudzu root, kudzu grain (kudzu seeds) also has a sobering effect.     Three, grass fruit With dry dampness, dispersing cold, remove phlegm and cut off malaria, because of the aromatic gas, has the nature of turbidity, the Materia Medica quoted Li Gao Yun: “warm the spleen and stomach, stop vomiting, cure the spleen cold damp, cold phlegm …… eliminates the hangover, solve the poison of alcohol, fruit accumulation, as well as to ward off miasma and solve the plague.”     Fourth, galangal has the function of dispersing cold and relieving pain, warming and stopping vomiting. The herb “from the new” contains this product “warming the stomach to disperse cold, eliminate food and wake up wine, treating cold pain in the stomach and epigastrium.”     Fifth, chrysanthemum can disperse wind-heat, calm the liver and brighten the eyes, clear heat and detoxify. The “Drug Guide” contains its “…… to solve the drunken man unconscious, easy to wake up, together with dry kudzu (Yi kudzu flower – author’s note) decoction.”     Sixth, the bamboo rhizome has the function of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, removing annoyance and stopping vomiting, which is effective for vomiting caused by stomach heat or phlegm heat.     The “De-matching Materia Medica” cloud its “get chicken seed, cure drinking headache.” The medicine also contains its “vomiting from wine injuries”.     Seven, white lentils can strengthen the spleen, resolve dampness, and eliminate summer heat. The Materia Medica Tujing states that it “is used for women’s dysbiosis. Also kill wine poison, also solve puffer fish poison.”     Eight, bitter ginseng with clearing heat and dry damp, kill insects and diuretic function, “the famous doctor’s record” contains its “in addition to fever intestinal restaurant, quenching thirst, wake up ……” the “Ben Cao Jing Shu” also contains bitter ginseng “eliminate wine, thirst, bright eyes, stop pure blood dysentery, noma dysentery very effective. ”     Nine, nutmeg has warmth and circulation, solid intestines to stop diarrhea, the function of eliminating food. The “Rizhuazi Materia Medica” contains its “regulate the middle, down the gas, stop diarrhea and dysentery, appetite, eliminate food. It is also used to treat cholera.” The book of “De-matching the Materia Medica” also considers that it “eliminates hungover food and detoxifies wine.”