What medicine can help sober you up the fastest?

If a person drinks too much, it may cause alcohol poisoning, so it is not appropriate to drink too much even in social occasions. Drinking every day can also cause great harm to your body. For example, it is obvious that decreased liver function is caused by drinking. Therefore, if you want your consciousness to not be controlled by alcohol after drinking, you need to sober up. Which drugs in the pharmacy have the most significant effect in sobering up?

8 Chinese medicines to sober you up

1. Fructus Aurantii Immaturus

Zhizi can cure drunkenness

Zhizi can treat drunkenness, irritability, thirst, vomiting, and constipation. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" clearly states that it "can treat all kinds of left paralysis and right paralysis, rheumatism and numbness, and can detoxify alcohol." "The Effective Prescriptions of World Doctors" proposes Zhimu Juzi Pills to treat "constipation caused by excessive drinking." In addition, the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn tree can also help to sober up.

2. White lentils

White lentil strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness and kills alcohol poison

White lentils can strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and relieve heat. The Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica states that it "treats leucorrhea in women. It can also kill alcohol poisoning and relieve pufferfish poisoning."

3. Pueraria flower

Pueraria root flower is good at detoxifying alcohol

Pueraria flower is good at detoxifying alcohol, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and quenching thirst. It is mainly used to treat excessive drinking, headaches and dizziness, thirst and vomiting, chest fullness, etc. "Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach" has Kudzu Flower Decoction for Relieving Drunkenness (drunkenness: being unconscious after being drunk) and "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" has Kudzu Flower Pills for Clearing Heat, etc., all of which are used to treat drunkenness. In addition, Pueraria root and Pueraria seeds also have the effect of sobering up.

4. Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum clears away heat and detoxifies

Chrysanthemum can dispel wind-heat, soothe the liver and improve eyesight, clear away heat and detoxify. The "Yaojian" records that it "…can cure drunkards who are unconscious and wake them up easily, boiled with dried kudzu (yi kudzu flower) for decoction."

5. Sophora flavescens

Sophora flavescens clears heat and dries dampness

Sophora flavescens has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, killing insects and promoting diuresis. The "Ming Yi Bie Lu" records that it "eliminates latent heat and intestinal distress, quenches thirst, and sobers up." The "Ben Cao Jing Shu" also records that Sophora flavescens "eliminates alcohol, quenches thirst, improves eyesight, and is very effective in stopping pure bloody dysentery and malnutrition dysentery."

6. Galangal

Galangal dispels cold and relieves pain

Alpinia officinalis has the functions of dispelling cold, relieving pain, warming the middle and stopping vomiting. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it "warms the stomach and dispels cold, helps digestion and sobers up, and treats cold pain in the stomach."

7. Nutmeg

Nutmeg Intestine Strengthening and Diarrhea Stopping Injection

Nutmeg has the functions of warming the middle, promoting qi circulation, strengthening the intestines and stopping diarrhea, and helping food. The Rihuazi Materia Medica states that it “regulates the middle, relieves Qi, stops diarrhea, stimulates appetite, and helps digestion. It can penetrate the skin, relieve Qi, detoxify alcohol, and treat cholera.” The Depei Materia Medica also states that it “helps digest stagnation and detoxify alcohol.”

8. Amomum villosum

Tsaoko treats spleen cold and dampness

Tsaoko has the functions of drying dampness and dispersing cold, removing phlegm and stopping malaria. Because of its aromatic smell, it has the property of dispelling turbidity. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" quotes Li Gao as saying: "It warms the spleen and stomach, stops vomiting, treats spleen cold and dampness, cold phlegm, eliminates food stagnation, eliminates alcohol poisoning and fruit accumulation, and also dispels malaria and plague."