There are records of the medicinal uses of alcohol in China even on ancient tortoise shells dating back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. "Alcohol is a good natural solvent, enabling one to get a higher proportion of the therapeutic content out of the raw materials of Chinese medicine," Chen Chun-che says.
中國的藥酒傳統，早在商周出土的甲骨文就有記載。「酒精原本就是很好的溶媒，對藥材可以抽出較高比例的成分。