Can drinking tea sober up?

Let's first look at how the wine breaks down after entering the body. After the wine enters the body, it enters the liver, and is first decomposed into acetaldehyde by alcohol dehydrogenase, and then decomposed into water and carbon dioxide by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, which completes the decomposition process of wine.

When alcohol is decomposed into acetaldehyde, stimulation to people will make people feel dizzy, headache or nausea, if they cannot continue to decompose acetaldehyde into water and carbon dioxide, drunkenness occurs. According to the decomposition process, as long as enough dehydrogenase is supplemented after drinking, you can avoid drunkenness. People who think that drinking tea can cure alcohol, there is a saying that tea contains a large number of beneficial substances, some of which can cure alcohol, but what the specific substance, no one can say clearly. There is also a saying that drinking a lot of tea can increase urination, thereby taking away some of the alcohol that enters the body, which helps reduce the stimulation of alcohol to the human body.

However, scientific studies have shown that tea not only does not cure alcohol, but may also add fuel to the fire. Alcohol has a strong stimulus to the cardiovascular and stomach, and tea, especially strong tea, can also stimulate the heart and stimulate the stomach.

In addition, theophylline in tea will stimulate the kidneys to accelerate diuresis, due to excessive drainage, will be too late to completely oxidize and decompose acetaldehyde into the kidneys early, stimulate the kidneys, the kidneys are double stimulated by tea and acetaldehyde, resulting in excessive urination, making the kidneys overloaded. This is often the case, damaging the kidneys. At the same time, due to the decrease in water in the body, the residue of harmful substances is formed and deposited in the kidneys, which may produce stones and cause double damage to the body.

In fact, Li Shizhen has long made a clear statement on the harm of drinking tea after drinking in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Drinking tea after drinking alcohol hurts the kidneys, the waist and legs fall heavily, the bladder is cold and painful, and the disease of phlegm and edema, thirst and spasm pain." ”

From this point of view, there is no scientific basis for saying that drinking tea can cure alcohol. After we drink, it is best not to drink tea, especially strong tea, and we should firmly refuse.