title: History of Chinese medicinal wine.
abstract: Chinese medicinal wine is one type of a favorable food-drug product invented by Chinese ancestors for treating and preventing diseases, promoting people's health and corporeity, and enriching people's restorative culture. In the course of development of the millenary-old Chinese civilization, Chinese medicinal wine has made incessant progress and evolution. In different historical periods, Chinese medicinal wine presented different characteristics in basic wine medical applications, prescriptions, etc. There are many medical and Materia Medica monographs which have systemically and specifically reported on Chinese medicinal wine in past Chinese dynasties. By studying leading medical documents, this article made an outline review on the invention, development, and characteristics of Chinese medicinal wine.
authors.affiliation: School of Basic Medical Sciences, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. xiaxunli@126.com
authors.forename: Xun-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D049669:History, 16th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D014920:Wine / Q000266:history*