Can the Chinese medicine Pueraria root sober up?

Some people like to drink, while many people drink out of necessity. In any case, drinking is harmful to your health, so you should pay attention to learning how to reduce the harm of alcohol to your body. You can learn some ways to drink without hurting your body. If you are drunk, you should learn how to sober up. In fact, Chinese medicine can also sober up. Can Pueraria root sober up? Which Chinese medicines can help to sober up? Here are 7 Chinese herbal medicines that can help you get rid of alcohol.

Pueraria root, a plant of the leguminous family Pueraria, is a common vegetable in some southern provinces of China. It tastes sweet and cool and is often used to make soup. So what are the effects and functions of Pueraria lobata? Let’s take a look at it below.

Effects of Pueraria root:

It can raise yang and relieve muscles, clear rashes and stop diarrhea, relieve restlessness and quench thirst. It is used to treat typhoid fever, fever, headache, stiff neck, restlessness, thirst, diarrhea, dysentery, rashes that do not break out, hypertension, angina pectoris, and deafness.

The role of Pueraria root:

1 Effects on smooth muscle

Daidzein in Pueraria root has anti-acetylcholine effect and can significantly contract smooth muscle. It is considered to be the main component of Pueraria root's antispasmodic effect.

2 Effects on coronary circulation

Pueraria root decoction, alcohol extract, total flavonoids and puerarin all have obvious effects on dilating coronary blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and reducing vascular resistance.

3 Effects on myocardial infarction and arrhythmia

Pueraria alcohol extract, soybean aglycone and puerarin all have obvious effects against arrhythmias induced by aconitine and barium chloride. Puerarin can also significantly shorten the duration of arrhythmias induced by chloroform and adrenaline in rabbits. Puerarin can significantly reduce the scope of myocardial infarction and is considered to be a β-adrenaline receptor blocker.

4 Effects on cardiac function and myocardial metabolism

Pueraria lobata total flavonoids and puerarin can slow down the heart rate, reduce the total peripheral resistance of the heart, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, and improve myocardial working efficiency. Puerarin can also significantly reduce the production of myocardial lactic acid caused by ischemia and improve the metabolism of the infarcted myocardium.

The Chinese medicines for hangover relief are as follows:

1. Chrysanthemum: clearing away heat and detoxifying

Chrysanthemum can dispel wind-heat, soothe the liver and improve eyesight, clear away heat and detoxify. The "Yaojian" records that it "…can cure drunkards who are unconscious and wake them up easily, boiled with dried kudzu (yi kudzu flower) for decoction."

2. Sophora flavescens: clearing away heat and drying dampness

Sophora flavescens has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, killing insects and promoting diuresis. The "Ming Yi Bie Lu" records that it "eliminates latent heat and intestinal distress, quenches thirst, and sobers up." The "Ben Cao Jing Shu" also records that Sophora flavescens "eliminates alcohol, quenches thirst, improves eyesight, and is very effective in stopping pure bloody dysentery and malnutrition dysentery."

3. Amomum villosum: Treats spleen cold and dampness

Tsaoko has the functions of drying dampness and dispersing cold, removing phlegm and stopping malaria. Because of its aromatic smell, it has the property of dispelling turbidity. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" quotes Li Gao as saying: "It warms the spleen and stomach, stops vomiting, treats spleen cold and dampness, cold phlegm, eliminates food stagnation, eliminates alcohol poisoning and fruit accumulation, and also dispels malaria and plague."

4. White lentil: Strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness

White lentils can strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and relieve heat. The Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica states that it "treats leucorrhea in women. It can also kill alcohol poisoning and relieve pufferfish poisoning."

5. Citrus aurantium: can cure drunkenness

Zhizi can cure drunkenness, irritability, thirst, vomiting, and difficulty in defecation and urination. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" clearly states that it "can treat all kinds of left paralysis and right paralysis, rheumatism and numbness, and can detoxify alcohol." "The Effective Prescriptions of World Doctors" proposes Zhimu Juzi Pills to treat "constipation caused by excessive drinking." In addition, the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn tree can also help to sober up.

6. Nutmeg: Strengthens the intestines and stops diarrhea

Nutmeg has the functions of warming the middle, promoting qi circulation, strengthening the intestines and stopping diarrhea, and helping food. The Rihuazi Materia Medica states that it “regulates the middle, relieves Qi, stops diarrhea, stimulates appetite, and helps digestion. It can penetrate the skin, relieve Qi, detoxify alcohol, and treat cholera.” The Depei Materia Medica also states that it “helps digest stagnation and detoxify alcohol.”

7. Alpinia officinalis: dispels cold and relieves pain

Alpinia officinalis has the functions of dispelling cold, relieving pain, warming the middle and stopping vomiting. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it "warms the stomach and dispels cold, helps digestion and sobers up, and treats cold pain in the stomach."

The above introduces 7 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines that can help to sober up. If there are drunk people at home, you can use these traditional Chinese medicines to sober up. But let me remind you again that drinking is harmful to your health, so it is better to drink less. What you need to do after drinking is to sober up. The purpose of sobering up is to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. So how do you sober up? This time we recommend a method of sobering up with Chinese medicine. There are several hangover sobering prescriptions to choose from. You can always keep some hangover sobering Chinese medicine at home to use in emergencies when you are drunk.