{"id":7974,"date":"2025-11-01T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:59:13","slug":"chinese-medicinal-wines-still-have-a-place-in-tcm-treating-arthritis-period-pain-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=7974","title":{"rendered":"Chinese medicinal wines still have a place in TCM, treating arthritis, period pain and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/10\/31\/d1de1fce-c876-4185-90d5-c40af6f4ac2e_3ef7f5c5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">It might sound like the stuff of nightmares: Chinese medicinal shop shelves lined with jars containing snakes and lizards pickled in a murky mix of liquid and herbs. But they serve a healthy purpose.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">To make them, snakes, geckos and other creatures are steeped in alcohol for months or years, along with herbs, to extract their perceived medicinal \u201cessence\u201d. They are used as powerful tonics to treat ailments from rheumatism to <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">arthritis<\/span>, and to boost male vitality by warming the body and promoting blood circulation.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3330998\/chinese-medicinal-wines-still-have-place-tcm-treating-arthritis-period-pain-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might sound like the stuff of nightmares: Chinese medicinal shop shelves lined with jars containing snakes and lizards pickled in a murky mix of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7681,107,7678,276,7682,65,7680,1260,7679],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-arthritis","tag-chinese","tag-medicinal","tag-pain","tag-period","tag-place","tag-tcm","tag-treating","tag-wines","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}