[A textual research on drinking disease and antidrinking remedies]

This subject is investigated through three aspects, viz., definition of drinking disease, its manifestations and treatment, and recipes and drug for antidrinking. The term "drinking disease" (Jiu Bing) was first recorded in Wang Shuhe's Canon of Pulsology, while abnormal drinking (Jiu Bo) was mentioned in Miraculous Pivot (Ling Shu). On Pathogenesis Manifestation of all diseases (Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun) gives the pathology and etiology. Great influence was exerted from Jin-yuan dynasties concerning its treatment. Zhang Jiebin expounded the comatous syndrome due to drinking (Jiu Jue). The earliest antidrinking drug was recorded in Shen Nong's Classic of Herbology. Through investigation, the commonly applied drug for relieving drunk include Flos Puerariae, Fructus Hovenariae, while the famous recipe for relieving drunk is Anti-tipsy Decoction of Flos Puerariae.