What is the relationship between medicine and wine in ancient times?

I think that some of the ancient medicine was used to make wine, and there is a close connection.

In fact, for ancient Chinese medicine, it is closely related to wine.

I think that ancient medicine was generally combined with wine to make medicinal wine.

Many medicines in ancient times were made from wine.

Regarding the origin of medicinal wine, there are old sayings of the Shang, Tang and Song dynasties. Recently, Chen Hongfei and Chen Ming wrote an article in the "Science Expo", and put forward the theory that medicinal wine originated in the Ming Dynasty. According to them, "medicinal liquor refers to the liquor obtained by macerating the dregs of plant roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and animal carcasses, as well as internal organs and mineral chemical products, in a certain proportion and with wine, for a certain period of time."

According to this definition, they denied that the "snake wine" in the inscription of the Shang Dynasty and the "Snake Wine" in the Tang Dynasty's Li Zhao's "Supplement to the National History" and Tian Xi's "Qu Ben Cao" in the Song Dynasty were medicinal wines from the production method of medicinal wine. However, they only use Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty as evidence to assert that the origin of medicinal wine in the Ming Dynasty is "in line with historical facts", which is probably arbitrary.

In ancient China, there was a custom of drinking Tusu wine on New Year's Day. Tusu wine is a kind of medicinal wine. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" includes the recipe of Tusu wine, and it is specially noted:

Chen Yanzhi's "Sketch Fang" cloud: This Hua Tuo Fang also. "Chen Yanzhi was a medical scientist in the Jin Dynasty.

Hua Tuo was a medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The Han and Jin dynasties are not far apart, and Chen Yanzhi said that Tusu wine was invented by Hua Tuo at the end of the Han Dynasty and should be credible.

In short, the author believes that it is too late to say that medicinal wine originated in the Ming Dynasty. To say that medicinal liquor originated in the Han Dynasty at the latest is probably closer to historical facts.

Medicinal liquor appeared during the Warring States period.

The Yellow Emperor's Neijing has a "Treatise on Soup Mash", which is dedicated to discussing the way of medicine. The so-called "soup" is the decoction of today's soup, and the "mash" is also the medicinal wine. Obviously, in the Warring States period, there was a relatively deep understanding of the medical effects of medicinal liquor.

From wine-making and drinking to wine appreciation and wine-talking, wine has penetrated into all aspects of human beings, and has gradually formed its own unique culture - wine culture. And the ancestors inadvertently ate the fermented melon juice and found that it can ** some diseases such as deficiency and cold abdominal pain, so that the wine and the original medical activities were bonded, and therefore the medicinal wine was slowly formed.

After which dynasty did medicinal liquor appear? [Tang Dynasty].

It is said to be the Shang Dynasty.

Because the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed in the Shang Dynasty have a record of "Hu Qi Wine".

Hanbangu annotated it as "brewed with the fragrance of herbs and tulips", which should be the meaning of blending medicinal wine.