A MAN who drank two litres of spirits a day has shown just what excessive drinking can really do to your body.

For more than 30 years, Hong Shu consumed two litres of the Chinese spirit, baijiu, a day.

And now the man from Guangzhou in southern China is paying the price, The Mirror reports, developing a fatty tumour described as a “horse’s neck”.

The distilled spirit is made from rice, sorghum or other grains, and has an ABV (alcohol by volume) of anywhere between 40 and 60 per cent.

Over the course of 30 years, Shu consumed tens of thousands of litres of the hard liquor, which triggered the rare Madelung disease.

Shu has struggled to eat, sleep or breathe after being diagnosed with the disease, which causes fatty deposits to accumulate in numerous parts of the body including the neck, arms and legs.

It was a decade ago when the 53-year-old started to see the changes in his body. It began with swelling behind both of his ears, but slowly spread to around his throat area.

In time, the fatty deposits took over his neck, leading him to be called “the man with the horse’s neck”.

The swelling around Shu’s throat was more than 15 centimetres wide and around 14 centimetres long. He also had two lumps on his neck that measured 18 centimetres inches wide.

This has caused him to became withdrawn, depressed and he rarely went outside.

But since being diagnosed doctors have no performed three successive surgeries on Shu to remove the fatty deposits.

He is due to be discharged from hospital, the People’s Daily Online reported.

There are only around 400 instances of the extremely rare disease worldwide.