As early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, people realized that processing drugs with wine can increase the efficacy of drugs. Even now, many traditional Chinese medicines in Chinese medicine stores still need to be processed with wine. There are nearly 5 kinds of commonly used Chinese medicines made of wine in China Pharmacopoeia, and there are many Chinese medicines made of wine in famous prescriptions. Because wine has the effect of warming and activating blood vessels and promoting drug potential, when taking some traditional Chinese medicines or Chinese patent medicines, if you can soak them in wine and drink them or take them with warm wine, you will better play the role of drugs in preventing and treating diseases and get twice the result with half the effort. Tonifying the kidney is not a "yang-strengthening" theory of traditional Chinese medicine. It is believed that taking Chinese medicine with wine or soaking Chinese medicine with wine can adjust the nature and taste of Chinese medicine by virtue of its pungent and hot nature, and wine has the property of ascending, which can lead the medicine to ascend, so that the medicine can quickly reach the meridians of the whole body, so as to enhance the functions of promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, expelling wind and dispelling cold. Therefore, there has been a saying since ancient times that "wine is the length of a hundred medicines". For example, although Salvia Miltiorrhiza has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, its taste is bitter and cold, while Chinese medicine believes that blood is "coagulated when it is cold, but it is ok when it is warm". If Salvia Miltiorrhiza is taken with warm wine or soaked in wine, its functions of removing blood stasis and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and dredging channels can be enhanced by virtue of the pungent and hot nature of wine. Another example is Chuanxiong, Angelica sinensis, Radix Clematidis, Achyranthes bidentata and other drugs for promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, expelling wind and dampness, and relieving pain. If you take them with warm wine or drink them after soaking in wine, it will be more convenient for the drugs to reach the disease site, and the curative effect will be better and faster. In addition, wine can also enhance the effects of traditional Chinese medicine on warming liver and kidney, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals. For example, tonic drugs such as Rehmannia glutinosa, Cornus officinalis and Ligustrum lucidum, which are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, can ease their acidity, thicken their taste and enhance the function of nourishing liver and kidney after soaking in wine; Soaking Angelica sinensis and Zaocys dhumnades in wine can not only enhance their functions of promoting blood circulation and qi circulation, expelling wind and relieving pain, but also correct the fishy smell of Zaocys dhumnades, which is convenient for taking and storing. Modern medical research believes that many effective components of traditional Chinese medicine, such as alkaloids and their salts, glycosides, tannins, organic acids and volatile oils, are easily soluble in wine. If the effective components of traditional Chinese medicine are taken with wine or soaked in wine, the curative effect can be improved. 1. Drugs with the functions of promoting blood circulation and qi circulation, removing blood stasis and dredging veins, such as native copper, Yunnan Baiyao and Qilisan, which are used to treat traumatic injuries; Rhizoma Cyperi Pills, Tongjing Pills, Dingkundan, etc. used to treat dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation; Salvia miltiorrhiza, Spatholobus stem, peach kernel, safflower, Chuanxiong rhizome, angelica, pangolin scales, Dahuoluo pills, ginseng zaizao pills and the like are used for treating numbness of hands and feet and hemiplegia due to apoplexy. 2. Drugs with the functions of dispelling rheumatism and relieving arthralgia, such as Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Clematidis, Fructus Chaenomelis, Agkistrodon, Zaocys, Zhuifeng Pill, Qufeng Shujin Pill, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis Jisheng Pill, Qiangjin Zhuanggu Pill, etc. 3. Drugs with liver and kidney tonifying effects, such as Fructus Lycii, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Corni, Semen Cuscutae, etc.