Using medicinal wine incorrectly is a disaster.

Medicinal wine is a form of medicine used in traditional medicine for the purpose of treating a certain disease. Medicinal wine is used in 2 ways.

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The first method is medicinal wine used externally, with the purpose of treating injuries, falls that cause pain, and muscle bruises. With this method, people often use medicinal herbs that are spicy, hot, promote blood circulation, and relieve pain, such as cinnamon bark, aconite, strychnine, blood vine, rehmannia glutinosa, etc. Sometimes, animal bile, such as bear bile, is used to massage the injured areas. This method also brings very positive results.

The second way is to use medicinal wine in the form of soaking to drink, for example to treat rheumatism, bone pain, back and knee pain, muscle pain people use "blood tonic and wind-removing wine", including the medicinal herbs Cau tich, Acanthopanax acanthopanax, Tang chi, Achyranthes bidentata, Red polygonum multiflorum, Polygonum multiflorum, Smilax glabra, Blood horn, Dipsacus asper, Hy thiem, and Ke huyet dang.

Or use wine to nourish kidney yang, increase vitality, such as soaking wine with gecko, Morinda officinalis, red polygonum multiflorum, or seahorse with Morinda officinalis, tangerine peel... To nourish qi and the body, you can soak wine with ginseng, deer antler... Although with such medicinal and nourishing herbs, their use must follow the instructions on dosage and usage to promote therapeutic effects and avoid unwanted effects for users.

Even the way to soak the wine to get the most active ingredients must be based on specific procedures, such as the proper processing of the medicinal herbs before soaking. Then the type of wine and the concentration of the wine used for soaking also need to be paid close attention.

Some things to note when using medicinal wine

Some people consider medicinal wine as a normal drink, so they use it arbitrarily, without following the instructions, drinking it whenever they want, or drinking it with friends until they get drunk. That is not good, sometimes harmful to themselves. Because even in medicinal wine, sometimes there are ingredients, if they exceed their limits, they can also bring unwanted effects to the user.

There have been people who have taken this “external wine” and been poisoned. Because external wine itself often contains ingredients that have strong pain-relieving effects (aconitin) in aconite, strychnine in strychnine… all of which are highly toxic to the body.

Soaking wine from animal bile

In fact, there are some types of animal bile that can be used as an ingredient in medicine. For example, buffalo bile, cow bile, and pig bile are used to make the medicine Thien Nam Tinh, which gives us the taste of Dom Nam Tinh used in traditional medicine. Pig bile is combined with Bai Bu to treat chronic cough.

To treat bone and joint pain, muscle numbness, people use bear bile or snake bile (cobra, rat snake, banded krait, etc.) soaked in alcohol to drink. However, at very low concentrations. For example, after processing snakes to soak in alcohol, their bile is taken out, soaked separately in a jar of 35-40% alcohol, and only when the snake wine is finished is this bile mixed in to drink.

About fish gall

Many types of fish bile are not toxic, such as the bile of the banana fish, also known as the snakehead fish. However, there are types of fish bile that are highly toxic, can cause serious toxicity and even endanger human life, such as the bile of the grass carp. Grass carp is very valuable, its meat is delicious and nutritious, but its bile is very toxic. In fact, in previous years, Bach Mai Hospital has issued warnings about cases of acute kidney poisoning and hematuria after drinking grass carp bile.

Therefore, if you soak grass carp bile in wine to drink, it is understandable that you will be poisoned. About 700 years ago, Tue Tinh also wrote: "Grass carp is called thanh ngu... Its bile is toxic."

To avoid unfortunate consequences that may occur when using soaked wine, first of all, talking about medicinal wine in general and wine from animal bile in particular, should not be used arbitrarily. Especially products of unknown origin as well as no experience in use.

According to Health and Life