Doan Ngo Tet festival how to eat wine with good health?

The rice is hot, not used for people who may be hot, rash, red tongue without moss or golden tongue, yellow urine .

Doctor Nguyen Xuan Thang, Head of Traditional Medicine Department of Rehabilitation, HCMC People's Hospital 115 said that rice wine is a typical dish on Doan Ngo Tet holiday, along with other dishes depending on the region.

Rice wine according to traditional medicine is hot. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth lunar month, the day of the lunar calendar is the most positive day, the day of the worms flourishes the most, including the parasites that inhabit the body. On this day, people often eat alcohol to prevent parasites from developing. Also encouraging people to catch insects for crops.

On the Lunar New Year, people often eat rice wine to prevent parasites from developing.(Photo: Vu Minh Quan).

According to Dr. Thang, rice wine is hot, so it should not be used for people who may be hot. According to traditional medicine, a person with a hot body is an imbalance between the yin and yang, the negative part cannot control the positive part and the appearance is hot.

This manifestation is usually a feeling of heat, restlessness, restless sleep, or a rash, red tongue without moss or yellow tongue moss, yellow urine . In traditional medicine, there is a phrase "heat and heat" . People with these symptoms should not eat alcohol because it will make the body hotter. For young people, eating rice wine is more acne-prone.

"Scientifically, many studies of rice wine have been noted to reduce bad blood fat, improve cardiovascular function, blood pressure ." , Dr. Thang said. This point is similar to the cardiologist's advice to allow the use of wine with a glass level per day to improve cardiovascular problems.

Dr. Thang said that, in addition to using rice wine, according to traditional medicine, people go to pick up drugs on this day with the concept of the positive ocean, so the medicinal plants thrive and have the most effect. For example, the mulberry leaves picked up on the Lunar New Year for use will reduce eye and eye diseases.