When I was a child, I saw my grandpa brewing medicinal wine, including snakes and wolfberries, in a big dark jar.
I didn’t understand it at the time and thought it was mysterious and even a bit scary.
Now think about it, what was in that jar was not wine, but a jar of greed for time.
Yes, greed.
I want to retain my strength, have a good sleep, and live a few more years with that yang energy.
For this state, Chinese medicine calls it "replenishing deficiency and dispelling cold", and also calls it "replenishing essence and strengthening yang". In fact, this means that we are competing with God for time.
The recipe for medicinal wine is as trivial as daily life.
The wolfberries must be washed and sealed for a week, two small cups a day.
Burdock seeds need to be fried, dendrobium seeds need to be lightly fried, and soybeans need to be fried.
There are only a few dozen words. After reading it, I feel it is simple, but when I start using it, it is all a matter of course.
Which one hurts and which one is cured? Not really
Have you noticed that those prescriptions rarely say what disease they are specifically for?
It said "cold and pain in the heart and belly, hiccups and vomiting", and even "the grain will not melt".
It does not just treat head pain, it is responsible for dealing with the cold air in your belly, which is the "qi" that can cause your entire body to become abnormal.
Just like the recipe of light dried ginger and aconite, paired with rice wine.
The warming properties of ginger and aconite, and the warming effect of rice wine, are not meant to kill viruses, but to ignite a fire inside your body, thus allowing the frozen river to melt on its own.
Alcohol is the king of medicines and also an intestinal toxin
The ancients said that "wine is the best of all medicines".
This sounds heroic, but you have to read the second half of the sentence - it is medicine that is three parts poison.
Currently, popular science work is being carried out on the Internet, claiming that patients with high blood pressure should not drink it, patients with liver disease should not drink it, and stroke patients must not touch it.
Even if you take cephalosporin, don't even touch the medicinal wine for a few days, it will kill you.
You see, the most nourishing things are often the most dangerous.
Just like loving someone, he can make you live like a god, or he can make you fall into hell in an instant.
Behind those strange names
White quartz, lodestone, and calamus can be soaked together to treat uneasiness.
The octagonal maple, the black bones, Jianxuefei, and a sprig of wormwood on the snow, these names sound reckless.
I estimate that the first person to use a sprig of mugwort on the snow to make wine was most likely because the pain was too much and he had no choice but to take the risk by fighting fire with fire.
People at that time lived a rough life, but they also lived seriously.
They don't know the chemical formulas, but they firmly believe that among the things that grow in the mountains and fields, one thing restrains the other.
The so-called "targeting the symptoms" is nothing more than "targeting the heart"
Some people brew kirsch, while others brew eleuthero bark.
The bright cherries look very festive after being soaked. They are specially designed for menstrual congestion with low menstrual flow, purple-black color and lumps.
Combining Acanthopanax bark with many medicinal materials, including antelope horn and Pittosporum bark, can treat more complex paralysis.
In fact, whatever prescription you drink will reveal your inner ailments.
If your body is afraid of cold, drink a drink that can help warm your yang. If your body is blocked, drink a drink that can activate blood circulation. We are not choosing alcohol, but we are choosing a way to talk to our bodies.
Don’t be superstitious about the year
Don’t think that the longer you soak it, the better.
The room temperature is about 20 degrees, and soaking for fifteen to thirty days is enough.
Medicinal materials can also breathe. If soaked for a long time, the alcohol content will decrease, and they will become moldy easily.
The same is true for feelings. The longer they last, the stronger they become. Sometimes, the right few days are just right.
That last mouthful was warm
When drinking medicinal wine, pay attention to "warm drinking".
It's not a cold cup, it's a small cup, put it in hot water and sip it slowly.
Let the warmth slide from your throat to your stomach, and then slowly spread to your limbs.
This "dispersing" process is more important than the wine itself.
Modern science has also confirmed that there is indeed a way to use liquor as a solvent to extract flavonoids and alkaloids in medicinal materials that are difficult to dissolve in water.
Our ancestors, who never knew what "extraction rate" was, relied on their tongues and bodies to try out this formula after generations of hard work.
So, medicinal wine.
People who believe in it think it is a treasure; people who don't believe it think it is superstition.
However, whether you believe it or not, once the cup is lifted, the smell of medicine and alcohol will always remind you of something -.
Recalling a certain winter, recalling the rough hands of a certain elder, recalling the humble thought of wanting to be entangled with this world for a few more moments.
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