According to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty, goat's milk can relieve adult's retching and nausea, as well as children's hiccups and tongue swelling. The main function of goat milk is to protect and treat digestive tract diseases, including nausea, burping and loss of appetite.
It is generally believed that goat milk can improve physical fitness, but it has been recorded in earlier China ancient books, pointing out that goat milk has the effects of nourishing the heart, lungs and kidneys, treating fatigue, enhancing immunity, strengthening trachea and treating asthma.
The immune effect of goat milk is difficult to prove, and the ingredients may be destroyed after heating.
However, TCM Zhou said that the goat's milk referred to by the ancients should be fresh pure goat's milk, not goat's milk powder that is common in the market now. Although modern research believes that goat milk contains immunoglobulin, which can enhance human immunity, in the process of processing fresh goat milk into goat milk powder, the immune components may be destroyed by heating and other treatments, so it is difficult to really achieve the effect of enhancing immunity.
Even if it is replaced with fresh goat milk, it may retain more immune components. However, there is not enough evidence to prove that drinking goat milk can really enhance immunity and even improve allergies. Therefore, not everyone will have obvious feelings after drinking goat milk.
Pay attention to people who drink too much goat milk, have constipation and have poor gastrointestinal peristalsis.
On the other hand, goat milk is warm and not suitable for everyone. Excessive drinking is easy to constipation, especially for people with poor gastrointestinal motility. Dr. Zhou pointed out that from the perspective of Chinese medicine, people with yang deficiency constitution are more suitable for drinking goat milk.