Guajiu, Gua means lonely and single, so the meaning of not eating Guajiu is that you cannot drink alone without meat or vegetables to accompany the wine. The wine here refers to rice brewing, usually above 50 degrees, not the current beer.
Why do Hakka people often say this? Why do they advise people not to drink plain wine? In fact, wine is the best for promoting qi, just like aconite, which can reach everywhere. Therefore, people who often drink rice wine are generally not afraid of cold, because their qi and blood are unobstructed. Just like in cold weather, we drink a few sips of wine before going to bed, and you can see that our hands and feet are warm. This is the effect of wine in promoting qi.
Because alcohol has the effect of promoting blood circulation, when blood flow is accelerated, it will inevitably consume blood, just like when we drive a car, the car speeds up when we step on the accelerator, so the process of speeding up will inevitably consume electricity or oil, this consumption is just like the consumption of blood.
So how do you replenish the blood after it is consumed? That is to eat food, and eating meat will replenish it faster. If you only drink alcohol, or someone is addicted to alcohol, drinking all day long without eating meat or vegetables in time, you will lose weight in a few years. If you see old alcoholics, which one is not thin?
Unlike now, when we drink beer, our stomachs are all big, haha! But we don’t know that beer is heavy in water and moisture, and it is just right for northerners to eat, and peppers can remove moisture. Southerners don’t eat peppers. The terrain in the south is low, and moisture is heavy, so drinking too much beer will cause back pain. But we don’t know that the alcohol content of beer is only about 10 degrees, and the rest is all water. Drinking too much will make the moisture heavier, so people will have more back pain.
Why does drinking too much rice wine make you lose weight? Drinking white wine (rice wine) is just like the warming effect in Chinese medicine, which can promote the flow of qi and blood. If you always take warming medicine, don’t add meat and vegetables in time, and eat vegetables and fruits every day, I tell you, you will lose weight all of a sudden, and your body will also get worse. Therefore, Chinese medicine talks about balance, which is to balance yin and yang, and it can’t be too much.
So when you use warming medicine and your physical symptoms are relieved, you should eat some meat to replenish your body. It is just like when a child catches a cold, we need to replenish the child’s energy and increase nutrition. Only after the deficit is replenished can the body recover and avoid catching a cold again. But people nowadays don’t have this concept. They just ignore the cold after it is cured, but they catch a cold again soon.
Why can’t we drink light alcohol? Isn’t it the same as taking warm medicine? So I often tell everyone that I can prescribe medicine to relieve your pain, but you can’t think that as long as you feel pain, you can take medicine and it will be fine? You must strengthen your nutrition in order to recover. You must know that medicine is only temporary.
In the past, there was no other way. We lived in poverty and had no money to buy anything we wanted to eat. So after we got sick, the condition improved and we continued to work. Soon, it came back again. We called it a chronic illness. But didn’t people in the past know how to replenish their body? Of course they knew, but what could they use to replenish their body? In an era when we couldn’t even drink enough porridge, and there were so many children, how could it be easy?
So many people died of jaundice in the past, but it was actually just malnutrition and edema. In modern medicine, it is a lack of protein and potassium. This disease is rare now because our living standards have improved.
