As to the effects of drinking on the cerebrovascular system, the result of studies by Eastern-Western medicine indicate the following conclusions:
1. Oriental medical studies show drinking causes ’Dam-em’, ’Dam-tak’, and ’Seub-yul’ and is, thus related to hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
2. Oriental medical studies also show that hypertension and hyperlipidemia, which includes apoplexy, a dizziness, headaches and ’Gan-yang’, are caused by ’Dam-em’, ’Dam-tak’ and ’Heul-uh’. In most cases of obesity. which is piled ’Seub-dam’ in the spleen and stomach, is caused by alcohol consumption.
3. Large amounts of alcohol consumption is a dangerous factor in many kinds of cerebrovascular attacks but under the middle grade of drinking it is not harmful. And it is a predominant theory that a small quantity of alcohol consumption is good for preventing cerebrovascular attacks.
4. Taking a brain computed tomography after alcohol has been introduced into the system reveals strange symptoms like ventricle dilatation, cerebral atrophy, and pathologic histological degeneration.
5. Alcohol is related to hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity which are dangerous factors in cerebrovascular attacks. This is especially true with hypertension and obesity.
6. Western medicine says, because of the close relations between hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and the grade of obesity, drinking increases the chances of cerebrovascular attacks.
Our findings show that reducing alcohol intake, an environmental factor, will help prevent cerebrovascular attacks.
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