page_title: Toso
section_title: Ingredients
hierarchical_section_title: Toso / Ingredients
caption_attribution_description: 屠蘇散の写真 (Picture of Tososan)
context_page_description: Toso, or o-toso, is spiced medicinal sake traditionally drunk during New Year celebrations in Japan.
context_section_description: The recipe is said to have originated as a prescription of the famous Chinese physician Hua Tuo during the Three Kingdoms period.
  Ingredients have changed somewhat over time; some of the original Chinese ones were deemed at one point or another to be too potent for casual consumption. Nowadays it is typically made from Japanese pepper, asiasari radix, apiaceae, cinnamon, dried ginger, atractylodes Japonica, Chinese bellflower and rhubarb, amongst others.
  It is held to be effective medicinally and useful at the onset of colds.
caption: Tososan
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