Medicine wine to drink or not to drink

  Old Li, who suffers from lumbar disc herniation, has significantly improved his symptoms after massage treatment. After the massage treatment today, he asked, “Doctor, my friend brought a bottle of medicinal wine from Europe, can I drink it?” Many patients with back and leg pain and lumbar synostosis have similar questions, is there any benefit to drinking some medicinal wine?  Wine itself is a kind of medicine. The Hanshu? Food and Beverage Zhi says: “Medicine, the longest of all medicines.” The Chinese medicine believes that wine is warm, pungent and bitter-sweet, and has the effect of warming the blood vessels, opening stagnation, dispersing medicinal power, warming the spleen and stomach, dispersing wind and cold, invigorating yang energy and eliminating fatigue. Since ancient times, wine and traditional Chinese medicine have been inextricably linked, and the word “t” itself contains the word wine, and curing diseases was one of the purposes of making wine.  In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, written during the Warring States period, there is a record of “mash wine” being used to treat “blockage of the meridians, and illnesses that are not benevolent”. The wine can be directly used as “medicine” to treat aching joints, weak legs and feet, unfavorable movement, cold limbs, cold pain in the belly and abdomen, etc. It can play a role in soothing the meridians, warming the Yang and dispersing the cold.  People are used to dipping some tonic herbs such as astragalus, ginseng and wolfberry into white wine, so that they can be taken at any time for drinking, so that the active ingredients of the herbs can be fully dissolved and the strengthening and tonic effects of the drugs can be enhanced. Such as ginseng wine, three whip wine, etc. In addition, there is a category of some herbs such as Boswellia, Myrrh, Panax ginseng, Chuan Wu, Cao Wu, Wu Zhi Snake, etc. to invigorate blood stasis and relieve wind and pain by dipping them into high white wine and applying them locally to patients with aching joints and numbness, so as to invigorate blood stasis and relieve wind and pain.  This type of medicine itself has the characteristics of being pungent and strong in activating the blood, and individual herbs are even toxic. The topical application has a strong pain-relieving effect without systemic side effects, and the penetrating effect of alcohol, together with the manual treatment, sometimes has a miraculous effect.  This shows that for patients with bruises and chronic back and leg pain, choosing the right topical medicinal wine for application can invigorate the blood and remove blood stasis, soothe the meridians and relieve pain, which can play a very good therapeutic role with the doctor’s treatment, and can also be combined with the consumption of some medicinal wine that invigorates blood and removes blood stasis. However, drinking medicinal wine can aggravate the condition for patients with gout, hypertension and heart disease.  For some acute injuries, the need for braking, cold compresses to control bleeding and exudation, reduce swelling, pain and other symptoms, when the external and internal use of medicinal wine, will increase the damage, is not conducive to future recovery. Therefore, internal and external use of medicinal wine in the acute stage will aggravate the symptoms and is not conducive to future recovery.  Therefore, for patients with cervical, lumbar and leg pain, it is best to use the appropriate medicinal liquor for external and internal use at the appropriate time under the guidance of a doctor to increase the efficacy.