Wine as medicine is one of the essences of ancient medicine.
White liquor has four actions: enhancing the effect of medicine, promoting blood circulation, warming the spleen and stomach, and dispelling all evils.
The effect of the medicine is boosted by the power of the wine, and the wine enhances the potency of the medicine. Many people like to soak herbs in wine for a long time to make herbal wine, and then drink it slowly.
Actually, this practice is incorrect!
The ancient recipes include methods of boiling with wine, which is a typical way to enhance the effect of the medicine.
But nowadays, trying to soak a genuine medicinal wine involves much more intricacy.
Time, location, and harmony, distilling, storing, and soaking the wine—each step needs strict control, and a slight mistake can ruin everything.
Nowadays, except for a few old traditional Chinese medicine practitioners from generations of transmission, not many people know how to do it.
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