Elderly people should consult their doctors to see if they can consume medicinal wines, and people with gastrointestinal, liver and kidney diseases as well as those who are allergic to alcohol should not consume medicinal wines.
Medicinal wines are mainly wines made from Chinese herbs that are soaked in wine. Although they have certain medicinal properties, they cannot be used as a means of treatment due to the low content of Chinese herbs and can only play a certain role in health care.
As the liver and kidney functions of the elderly will deteriorate to varying degrees, long-term excessive consumption of health care wine may cause some damage to the body, especially alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis patients should not drink. At the same time, alcohol can cause some stimulation to the gastric mucosa, peptic ulcer, gastritis people are not recommended to drink alcohol.
In addition, because alcohol affects the absorption of vitamin D and calcium, the elderly if long-term consumption of medicinal alcohol may also aggravate osteoporosis, the elderly with bronchial asthma should also avoid drinking medicinal alcohol in order to avoid triggering asthma.
Therefore, the elderly should not blindly drink medicinal wine, and if necessary, need to follow the doctor’s advice for regular treatment.