Many drinks in the market suggest that they can help reduce the alcohol concentration in the body in a short time after drinking, but the ingredients in the hangover solution are mostly vitamins and liver-protecting nutrients, which can not metabolize alcohol immediately, and only have a "comfort" effect. Chinese medicine practitioners point out that adequate rest after drinking is the best way. If you wake up the next day with a hangover and feel dizzy and unwell, you can use Gehua Jiexing Decoction to relieve it.

After alcohol enters the human body, 9% of it is metabolized by the liver. At present, there is no drug or food that can directly accelerate the alcohol metabolism in the liver. Most of the drinks on the market suggest that they can relieve alcohol. If you want to help alcohol metabolism, Lin Shungu, a Chinese medicine practitioner in Renai Hospital of North United Hospital, pointed out that it is still necessary to rely on adequate rest and drink plenty of water to keep the liver from working excessively, which can naturally help alcohol excrete.

regarding the hangover symptoms the next day after drinking, Dr. Lin Shungu said that Gehua Jiexing Decoction can be used to relieve hangover discomfort, but its purpose is to improve symptoms, which cannot decompose alcohol components, accelerate alcohol metabolism and reduce blood alcohol concentration. In addition to Gehua Jiexing Decoction, the prescription composed of Gehua can also strengthen the spleen and stomach. Gehua and Hovenia dulcis each cost 3 yuan and add two bowls of water to make a half bowl. After taking it, it can also relieve vomiting, abdominal pain and headache caused by hangover.

Gehua Jiexing Decoction

Ingredients: 1 yuan for Gehua, 1 yuan for Amomum cardamom, 1 yuan for Amomum villosum and 1 point for Radix Aucklandiae; 4 points for green tangerine peel, dried tangerine peel, ginseng, fried atractylodes and Poria; Fried Massa Medicata Fermentata, Dried Ginger, Polyporus and Alisma orientalis each scored 3 points.

Efficacy: it can invigorate qi and spleen, promote diuresis and relieve dizziness; It can relieve dizziness, chest distress, nausea, vomiting, poor diet, diarrhea, and dysuria caused by excessive drinking, stagnation of alcohol, and spleen deficiency and dampness. The prescription is mainly based on strengthening the spleen, supplemented by diuresis and improving indigestion.

Flos puerariae lobatae, the main medicinal material, can awake the spleen, while Amomum villosum, Massa Medicata Fermentata and Zingiber officinale can evaporate dampness, promote digestion and eliminate accumulation. Polyporus umbellatus and Alisma orientalis can remove dampness and promote diuresis. The combination of various drugs can strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, which can relieve the symptoms caused by hangover and accelerate the discharge of alcohol accumulated in the body. Dizziness and malaise caused by hangover, Gehua Jiexing Decoction can strengthen the spleen, promote diuresis and improve symptoms. (Photography/Huang Zhiwen)