However, beer is wine after all. Wine is alcoholic, and if it is drunk into the gastrointestinal tract in large quantities and absorbed into the blood, it will also cause diseases. Therefore, experts believe that beer is not liquid bread, and excessive drinking is also very harmful.
1. Drinking a lot of beer leads to a high risk of cancer. Not long ago, American cancer experts issued a shocking warning: people who drink a lot of beer have a higher risk of oral cancer and esophageal cancer than those who drink hard liquor. Arthur Mashberg, an American cancer expert, has studied the health records of a large number of beer drinkers and found that people who drink more than 6 bottles of beer every day are very likely to develop these cancers. Australian scholars also found that people who drink more than 10 bottles of beer every day are most likely to suffer from rectal cancer. Recent studies have found that this is mainly because the nitrosamine content in beer is higher than that in other drinks.
Drinking a lot of beer is also very harmful to the liver. Experts warn people that people who drink a lot of beer are more likely to die of liver disease than those who drink the same amount of wine. A survey was conducted in six hospitals in the United States, and it was found that 24% of the people who had hepatitis due to alcoholism but only survived for five years were beer drinkers. Dr. Mendenhall of Cincinnati Medical Center and his colleagues followed up 370 patients with hepatitis caused by alcoholism, 65 of whom drank beer for a long time.
3. Dr. Cui Bo from Heidenborg University Hospital suggested that drinking more beer would promote the occurrence of kidney calculi. In the wort of brewing beer, there are not only calcium and oxalic acid, but also a large number of guanine nucleotides, which can more than double the amount of uric acid in the human body, thus promoting the occurrence of stones.
4. Damage to oral and esophageal mucosa When you drink too much beer in one day, the alcohol in it will directly damage the oral and esophageal mucosa. In addition, the alcohol used to prepare beer is impure, and chemicals such as pigments and nitrosamines contained in smoked products such as salted fish, bacon, sausage and braised pork, which are commonly used in drinking beer, are easy to damage the mucosa of the mouth and esophagus under the interaction with alcohol.
People who drink a lot of beer usually have bigger hearts, which are called "bull hearts" or "beer hearts". Although the alcohol content in beer is not too high, if it is drunk in large quantities for a long time, the heart will continue to be damaged by alcohol, thus weakening the function of fat cells in myocardial tissue and causing tachycardia.
Therefore, attention should be paid to timely, moderate and moderate drinking of beer, and it is generally appropriate to drink 1-2 cups each time. Fresh vegetables, fresh fish and meat and eggs are the best appetizers, and pickled products are used as little as possible. In short, you can't drink too much beer. If you drink bottle by bottle, it will not play the role of "bread", but will play the role of "chronic poison".
Health, although the initial drinking behavior of human beings can not be called health drinking, it is closely related to health care and disease prevention. Because many wild fruits have medicinal value, the original wine can be called natural "medicinal wine", which naturally has certain protection and promotion effects on human health.
Although the initial drinking behavior of human beings can not be called health drinking, it is closely related to health care and disease prevention. Scholars generally believe that the original wine is the natural fermentation of wild fruits collected by human beings in the remaining time under suitable conditions. Because many wild fruits have medicinal value, the original wine can be called natural "medicinal wine", which naturally has certain protection and promotion effects on human health. Of course, although human beings benefit from drinking at this time, they may not have a clear health purpose.
The nature of wine There are many kinds of wine, which are similar in nature, taste and efficacy. Generally speaking, wine is warm and pungent, and those who are warm can dispel cold and drain, while those who are pungent can disperse drain, so wine can dredge meridians, promote qi and blood circulation, dissipate stagnation, warm yang and cold, soothe the liver and relieve depression, and express feelings; Moreover, wine is the essence of grain brewing, so it can also benefit the stomach. In addition, wine can kill insects and drive away evil spirits. It is recorded in natural history that Wang Su, Zhang Heng and Ma Jun went out in the morning in the fog. One drinks, one eats, and one is on an empty stomach; People who eat on an empty stomach die, people who are full are sick, and people who drink are healthy. The author believes that this shows that "the potential of wine is better than the effect of food."
The combination of wine and medicine is a great progress in drinking for health. Wine has three main functions in medicine:
● Wine can play the role of medicine. The ancients said that "wine is the best medicine". Wine can make the efficacy of drugs from the surface to the top, so as to better play the role of regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, and replenish deficiency without stagnation.
● Wine contributes to the precipitation of active ingredients in drugs. Wine is a good organic solvent. Most water-soluble substances and some substances that need to be dissolved in nonpolar solvents can be dissolved in alcohol. Many components of traditional Chinese medicine are easily soluble in alcohol. Alcohol also has good permeability, easy to enter the tissue cells of medicinal materials, play a role in dissolution, promote replacement and diffusion, and is conducive to improving the leaching speed and leaching effect.
● Wine also has antiseptic effect. Ordinary medicinal liquor can be preserved for months or even years without deterioration, which brings great convenience to drinkers.
■ Common preparation methods of medicinal liquor
The common preparation methods of medicinal liquor mainly include cold soaking, hot soaking, percolation and brewing.
Low cold dip method:
Chop the medicinal materials, process them, put them into a porcelain jar or other suitable containers, add a specified amount of Chinese liquor, seal and soak them, and stir them 1 ~ 2 times a day, and after one week, stir them 1 time a week; * * * Soak for 30 days, take the supernatant, squeeze the residue, mix the squeezed liquid with the supernatant, add a proper amount of sugar or honey, stir and dissolve, seal, stand for more than 14 days, filter and fill.
● Hot dip method:
Take the decoction pieces of medicinal materials, wrap them in cloth, hang them on the upper part of the container, and add white wine until they are completely immersed in the package; Cover, soak the container in human water, slowly heat it with slow fire, soak it for 3-7 days and nights, take it out, let it stand overnight, take the supernatant, squeeze the residue, combine the squeezed liquid with the supernatant, add ice enamel or honey to dissolve it, let it stand for at least 2 days, filter out and package. This method is called suspension impregnation. This method was later reformed to take it out immediately after heating it in water until it boils, pour it into a vat, add enamel or honey to dissolve it, seal the vat, soak it for 30 days, collect the clear liquid, combine it with the squeezed liquid of the residue, let it stand for a proper time, filter and fill it.
● Infiltration method:
Pulverizing the medicinal materials into coarse powder, placing in a container with a cover, adding 60-70% of the extraction solvent of the coarse powder, wetting uniformly, sealing, and standing for 65-05 minutes to several hours to fully expand the medicinal materials for later use. Then take a mass of absorbent cotton, moisten it with leaching solution, gently spread it on the bottom of the infiltration filter cartridge (cylindrical or conical funnel with outlet at the bottom, and control the liquid to flow out with piston), then put the wetted and expanded powder into the infiltration filter cartridge several times, and flatten it after each input. Cover it with filter paper or gauze after loading. When the solvent is slowly added to the percolating cylinder, the piston at the outlet of the percolating cylinder should be opened first to remove the residual air in the cylinder, and the piston should be closed when the solution flows out from the outlet. Continue to add the molten medium until it is several centimeters higher than the powder, cover it and let it stand for 24-48 hours to make the solvent fully permeate and diffuse. Then open the piston and let the leachate flow out slowly. If the concentration of leachate is to be increased, the primary leachate can also be used as a solvent for new powder for the second or multiple leachate. Collecting percolate, standing, filtering and filling.
● Brewing method:
That is, medicinal materials are used as raw materials for brewing wine, and distiller's yeast is added to brew medicinal liquor. For example, white bamboo wine and wolfberry juice wine recorded in Fang Yi are all brewed in this way. However, due to the difficulty in making this method and the complicated steps, it is rarely used by ordinary families now.
Matters needing attention
● Moderate drinking:
This is crucial. There are many disputes about the harm of drinking, ancient and modern, at home and abroad, and the key to the problem lies in the amount of drinking. Drinking less is a good thing, drinking more is a bad thing. Shao Yong's poem day in Song Dynasty: "People are not good at drinking, but only like to drink it all;" People are either good at drinking, but it is hard to like the sum of drinking. If you drink too much, you will feel sore. If you get drunk after drinking, you will be embarrassed. The "harmony" here is moderation. Not too much, not too much. Too much harm to the body does not mean that you don't drink alcohol and can't play a health care role.
● Drinking time:
It is generally believed that wine should not be drunk at night. "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: People know to give up drinking early, but they don't know to drink alcohol late. When you are drunk, you sleep on a pillow, which hurts your eyes. The night gas converges, and the hangover with wine will clear the gas, relieve the spleen and stomach, stop the dampness and produce sores, and help the desire with fire, so there are many people who are sick. It can be seen that the reason for abstaining from drinking at night is mainly because the air converges at night. On the one hand, the wine you drink can't be dispersed, and the heat is trapped in the room, which has the disadvantage of hurting your eyes; On the other hand, wine is a divergent thing, which disturbs people's convergence and calmness at night and hurts people. In addition, there are two different views on drinking festivals. Some people think it's cold in winter, so it's suitable for drinking to warm the yang and dispel the cold.
● Drinking temperature:
On this issue, some people advocate cold drinks and others advocate warm drinks. Advocates of cold drinks believe that alcohol is inherently hot, and hot drinking will be even hotter, which will easily damage the stomach. If you have a cold drink, use cold to heat it, so there is no danger of overheating. Zhu Zhenheng, a medical scientist in Yuan Dynasty, said: "Wine has three benefits". If the lung enters the stomach too much, it will be slightly warm, and the lung will get the cold in the warm first, which can benefit qi; The second time, the temperature in the cold can nourish the stomach. Cold wine is too late for people to drink. However, Xu Wenbi of A Qing Dynasty advocated warm drinking. He said that wine "had better be taken with warm clothes", "Hot drinking hurts the lungs" and "Cold drinking hurts the spleen". A more eclectic view is that although wine can be drunk warm, it should not be drunk hot. As for what is suitable for cold drinks and what is suitable for warm drinks, it can be treated differently according to personal circumstances.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, health-preserving drinking is more suitable for the elderly, those with slow qi and blood circulation, those with weak yang, and those with cold, obstruction and blood stasis in the body. This is pure wine, not medicinal wine. Medicinal liquor has different properties such as nourishing blood and yin, warming yang and benefiting qi, resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness, regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, resolving food stagnation and so on, so it cannot be used universally. The weak use tonic wine, and the blood vessels are blocked with medicated wine that promotes qi, blood circulation and collaterals; For cold people, wine should be warm and clear for hot people. People who are interested in the health care of medicinal liquor had better make a choice under the guidance of a doctor.