Is Soju good for my constitution? Or beer?


Everybody knows that beer is made by barley. Barley has cold nature as the bud comes out frozen ground. Therefore beer has cold character either.

Beer is worst not only for so-um person, who has cold nature but also for tae-um person. Soju and whisky are better for them.

They should drink proper quantity of alcoholic as soju and whisky makes you hot in the beginning, but it's getting cold. Beer is better for soyangin or tae-yang person with hot nature.

However rice wine is proper for all constitution as it has warm character and don't need to care of side dishes. On the other hand, wheat flour wine with cold nature is bad for people with weak digestion system. Please keep in mind that you should choose alcoholic according to your constitution for health. Proper kind of alcoholic for each constitution is as follows.




The herbal medical way for hangover.

The hang-over is caused by irresolved excessive alcoholic. Furthermore hot temparature with damp-heat and heat-toxic in the resolving process also has an effect on body.

Oriental medicine says the pathological symptom as alcoholic intoxication and lots of ways for resolving it are handed down.


1. Drink a lot in and after drinking.

Body needs lots of water or juicy food in the morning after heavy drinking as our body has suffered from heat-toxin caused by hot natured alcoholic since the night. (Body feels lack of water and thirst as body moisture is used in the liver during resolving process of intoxication.

It's better for drinking lots of water in drinking for faster resolving hangover. It helps you to sober up quickly and is also good for thirst.

One of herbal medical way for hang-over is well urination, which eliminate damp-heat caused by drinking . The more you drink water, the more you urinate. It helps to resolve intoxication naturally.




2. Take a warm shower next morning of drinking.

Oriental medicine recommends perspiration for alcoholic toxin caused by excessive drinking.

However people misunderstand perspiration therapy as souna. It's not bad for healthy people or tae-um person but weak people with slime body figure or so-um person should be careful as temporary cerebral anemia can be caused by decreasing body moisture and disturbing alcoholic resolution.

Taking a hot shower is recommendable for every constitution. It makes you feel more fresh than souna and has no side effect.




3. Eat proper food for hangover.

Arrowroots are generally known as the best herbal medicine for a alcoholic toxin. It quenches thirst of drinking and get out of hangover by the way of neutralizing intoxication for alcoholic. You just need to drink arrowroot juice or dried and boiled arrowroot. It's better for drinking on empty stomach in the day after drinking.

The most common prescription for alcoholic toxin "gal-hwa-hae-sung-

tang" and "dae-gum-um-ja".

Green tea is also good for hangover. The cool nature of green tea lowers the temperature of alcoholic toxin, quench thirst, and help being sober by the way of stimulating urination. It’s quick in effect in drinking two or three cup of green tea before sleeping right after drinking and two or three cup of it in the next morning.

Cucumber is also good for alcoholic toxin with the cool nature. You can eat it fresh or grind it. The other way is to drink cucumber soju .

The research says that a dried pollack soup, sea shell soup, ox-blood soup and bean sprouts soup, which was the ancestor's way are good for relieving hangover.

Dried persimmons are the best for neutralizing intoxication of alcoholic. Drinking alcoholic with dried persimmons makes you get drunk slowly. It's also good for you to drink cinnamon flavored persimmon punch after drinking. As fruits such as pears, peaches, apples include much more aspartic acid than bean sprouts. It's also good for drinking fruit as a side dish or drink grinding fruit after drinking.