| Chinese medicine believes that wine is a hot and humid product, and excessive consumption can lead to the accumulation of alcohol poisoning, so long-term drinking of large quantities of alcohol is easy to curb yang qi, impede the pathogenic characteristics of qi; alcohol toxicity can affect the spleen, stomach, liver, gallbladder, kidneys and other internal organs of the function of the toxicity, deficiency, phlegm, blood stasis mixed with each other as a causal factor, which affects the disorders of bone metabolism, accelerate the loss of bone and thus cause osteoporosis. Alcohol-induced osteoporosis is often overlooked by patients because of its non-specific manifestations, and the majority of patients usually do not receive timely treatment to prevent osteoporotic fracture, which leads to a decline in the quality of life of the patients and a high economic burden, and even leads to a high mortality rate. Therefore, it is of great significance to discuss the pathogenesis of osteoporosis from the perspective of "alcohol toxicity causes impotence", and to clarify the research progress of alcoholic osteoporosis from different perspectives of traditional and modern medicine, aiming to draw the attention of people who consume alcohol and to provide ideas for the prevention and treatment of alcoholic osteoporosis. |