Abstinence After Drinking Alcohol
Abstinence After Drinking Alcohol
After drinking alcohol, one becomes excited and loses self-control, often indulging excessively in sexual activity, seeking complete exhaustion of essence. Excessive depletion of essence severely impacts physical and mental health. The "Plain Questions: On the True Nature of Ancient Times" states: "Treating wine as water, making recklessness a habit, engaging in sex while drunk, exhausting essence, dissipating true qi, failing to preserve abundance, neglecting spiritual discipline, pursuing momentary pleasure, violating natural joy, living without rhythm—thus declining by fifty years old."
Tang dynasty physician Sun Simiao said: "Do not engage in sex when drunk. Drunkenness combined with sex causes mild cases to turn pale and cough, severe cases to damage internal organs and endanger life." Ming dynasty physician Gong Tingxian also said: "Sexual activity after extreme intoxication exhausts the liver and intestines. Men experience reduced seminal fluid and impotence; women suffer diminished menstruation, retained blood, and develop sores."
Alcohol is sweet, spicy, and bitter in taste, hot in nature, capable of promoting blood circulation and dispersing cold and stagnation. However, its excessive heat can burn essence and blood, deplete bone marrow, and stimulate lust, heightening sexual desire. Meanwhile, sexual activity consumes substantial physical energy and refined substances. Engaging in sex after drinking combines alcohol and sexual excess, like pouring soup into a leaking pot over intense fire—necessarily shortening lifespan. Modern clinical data also confirm that male and female sexual dysfunction, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and osteomyelitis are linked to sexual activity after excessive drinking. When one partner is intoxicated and mentally excited, with heightened libido, they may impose excessive demands on the other, even acting roughly, harming the other's feelings.