Five Spice Herbal Wine: A Traditional Remedy for Heat, Pain, and Swelling

【Prescription Name】

　　Five Spice Herbal Wine

　　【Ingredients】 Five spice herb, white wine

【Preparation】

　　Cut the five spice herb into small pieces and put it into a cheesecloth bag. Tie the bag tightly. Place the herb bag into a jar and pour the white wine into the jar. Cover the jar tightly and let it soak for 10-15 days.

【Dosage】

　　Oral administration, one dose per day, warm consumption.

【Efficacy】

　　Clears heat and detoxifies, relaxes tendons and promotes blood circulation, reduces swelling and relieves pain.

【Ingredients of the Prescription】

　　Five spice herb: It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relaxing tendons and promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is used to treat influenza, snake bites, rabies bites, rheumatism, numbness, bruises, irregular menstruation, abscesses, and sores.

　　① "Yunnan Medicinal Herbs": "Root: Clears heat and detoxifies, reduces swelling and relieves pain. Prevents meningitis, influenza, treats snake bites, nameless swelling and poison, external bleeding, and fractures."

　　② "Selected Yunnan Medicinal Herbs": "Root and herb: Relax tendons and promote blood circulation, reduce swelling and relieve pain; leaves: stop bleeding and disperse stasis."
 

【Precautions for Drinking Medicinal Wine】

　　1. Patients who should not drink alcohol should not drink medicinal wine

　　For patients with chronic nephritis, chronic renal insufficiency, chronic colitis, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, digestive system ulcers, infiltrative or cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis, epilepsy, heart failure, hypertension, etc., drinking alcohol, including medicinal wine, is not suitable and may worsen the condition. However, this is not absolute. Some patients with specific conditions can take low-alcohol medicinal wine without harm and may even benefit from it. However, caution should be exercised. In addition, people who are allergic to alcohol or certain skin diseases should also avoid or use medicinal wine with caution.

　　2. People who should not drink alcohol should not drink

　　Not everyone is suitable for medicinal wine or alcoholic beverages. Those who are not suitable should refrain from drinking. Pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and children should not drink medicinal wine or alcoholic beverages. The elderly and those with weak constitutions should reduce their consumption of medicinal wine due to their relatively slow metabolism. They should not drink too much.

　　3. How much medicinal wine to drink at once

　　The optimal dosage is about 20 milliliters (half a liang) per day, and long-term use should be avoided to prevent damage to the heart, liver, kidneys, and nervous system caused by alcohol. For those who are not good at drinking alcohol and preparing tonifying medicinal wine, it is advisable to use low-alcohol fermented wines such as yellow wine and rice wine. For those who can drink alcohol and prepare medicinal wine for treating diseases, high-proof distilled spirits such as baijiu and daqu liquor can be selected according to specific conditions, with a degree of about 50 degrees being appropriate. Tonifying medicinal wine should be taken before meals so that it can be absorbed quickly by the body and exert its medicinal effects faster. It should not be taken with meals to avoid affecting the efficacy. The optimal dosage is about 20 milliliters (half a liang) per day, and long-term use should be avoided to prevent damage to the heart, liver, kidneys, and nervous system caused by alcohol. Those using therapeutic medicinal wine should prepare and take it according to the doctor's prescription or empirical formula.

　　The method of taking medicinal wine should also be determined based on physique, age, etc. Those with chronic hepatitis, fatty liver, acute and chronic nephritis, hypertension, and gastric ulcers should use caution, and those allergic to alcohol should not take it. The elderly, women, and children should take it in small amounts, preferably with low-alcohol beverages. If you have a cold, fever, sore throat, or bronchitis, you should stop taking it. Women with excessive menstrual flow should use blood-activating medicinal wine with caution.

　　4. Select medicinal wine based on the condition, do not drink indiscriminately

　　Each type of medicinal wine has its own range of applicability and should not be consumed indiscriminately. For example, those with symptoms such as cold, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea should choose appropriate medicinal wine and should not consume tonifying medicinal wine.