Can it turn wine into water?

Expert: Internet celebrity "anti-drinking medicine" is not actually a medicine

As the saying goes, "a thousand cups of wine are few when you meet a confidant", and wine has always been a vital presence on the dinner table of Chinese people

The "magic medicine" is rampant

"Turn wine into water, increase the amount of alcohol" Can health products cure alcoholism?

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"It seems to be something that can increase the amount of alcohol or prevent drunkenness.

On the online shopping platform, there are a lot of "hangover artifact" that claim to "protect the liver before drinking, and quickly hangover after drinking" are selling hotly, such as capsules, gummies, etc.

The display pages of almost every related product are marked with words such as "hangover medicine", "hangover medicine" and "liver protection tablets"

Under the reporter's questioning, some merchants provided the ingredient list in the product

Some merchants' comment area only released positive reviews, but some buyers in the "ask everyone" column bluntly said that it is impossible to turn wine into water and increase the amount of alcohol

The "magic medicine" is not a medicine

The efficacy of publicity is not certified, and hangover depends on human metabolism

Many netizens said, can these foods containing the word "medicine" make people stay awake after drinking and avoid uncomfortable situations, so that they can drink freely without worries? What are the ingredients listed? How can it be considered a solution to the wine?

In this regard, Tian Yantao, chief physician of the Department of Pancreas and Stomach Surgery, Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said that clinically, there is currently no drug approved by the National Drug Administration for the indication of hangover.

He introduced that there is such a record for the role of Pueraria in the traditional Chinese medicine book "Compendium of Materia Medica", "to treat qi and nausea, to appetizer and eat, and to detoxify

Ding Qingming, deputy director of the Pharmacy Department of Peking University People's Hospital, also said that Internet celebrities' "drugs for hangover" are not actually medicines, and health food cannot contain pharmaceutical ingredients.

"Prescriptions" are unreliable

may cause liver damage

Ding Qingming introduced that after excessive drinking and alcohol poisoning, drugs such as naloxone, nalmefene, and metadoxine can work clinically, such as "naloxone hydrochloride sublingual tablet".

Tian Yantao added that although metadoxine can enhance the activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in clinical practice, this drug is a prescription drug, mainly used for the treatment of alcoholic liver disease, and can also be used for acute alcoholism, which is not suitable for normal people.