Table 1.

Consequences of wine drinking according to traditional Iranian medicine

Type of wine	Consequences
Fresh	Bloating and difficult digestion, phlegmatic diseases
Fragrant	Headache
Fresh, cloudy, and dark	Bladder stones
Sour-sweet	Difficult digestion, harm to nerves, madness
Wine in an amphora buried in the ground or in snow and ice and not been exposed to sunlight	Difficult digestion, cramps, chronic fever
Wine exposed to sunlight after boiling	Fast passage through digestive organs, fever
Aged	Harm to organs, stomach and intestinal ulcers, harm to senses and nerves
Condensed and aged	Difficult digestion
Foul-smelling wine	Harm to the body, headache, fatal disease
Used with water	Ascites and weakness of the organs