What is the role of sugar? What medicinal diet can it be made of?

White sugar is extracted from sugarcane juice. White sugar was called stone honey, frosted sugar, frosted sugar and sugar in ancient times.

It shows that sugar is sweet and cold, and enters the spleen and lung meridians. Its ingredients include sugar, protein, calcium, iron and vitamin B2, of which 99% is sugar. Its functions: ① nourishing yin and softening liver, which is suitable for nourishing and treating costal pain and irritability caused by liver yin deficiency. (2) Moistening the lungs and relieving cough, which is used to nourish and treat cough without phlegm or less phlegm and dry throat. ③ It can be used for the treatment of stomachache caused by hunger and chronic pain caused by weakness of spleen and stomach, and for the treatment of limb fatigue and fatigue. Regarding the therapeutic effect of sugar, Li Zhezhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "But its nature and spleen slow down the liver, so the treatment of spleen and stomach should be guided by purging the liver with drugs."

Pay attention to and avoid taboos such as excessive phlegm, abdominal distension, weight and vomiting caused by excessive phlegm.

Formulas and usage

(1) Boiled white sugar chestnuts: 250-300g chestnuts and 50g white sugar. Shelled chestnuts and boiled with sugar. When the chestnuts are ripe, eat them with soup. Chestnuts can also be mashed and boiled with sugar to treat children's indigestion. Chestnuts replenish the spleen and stomach and benefit the liver and kidney; White sugar regulates the spleen and stomach, and the two flavors are used together to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach and help it digest. It is suitable for dyspepsia and diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach weakness.

(2) White sugar lily soup: 30-50g white sugar. Lily 50-100g. The two flavors are decocted in the same water. 1 After the water boils, you can drink soup or drink tea instead. The combination of the two medicines can nourish yin and moisten the heart and lungs, and is suitable for dry cough caused by deficiency of lung yin, anxiety and insomnia caused by deficiency of heart yin and excessive heat.

(3) White sugar drinking of Chinese cabbage: Wash the whole Chinese cabbage, wring the juice, add a proper amount of white sugar every time 1 small cup, and stir well before drinking. Cabbage contains a lot of vitamin U, which can promote ulcer healing. Adding sugar to nourish the stomach and relieve pain is a good way to treat gastric and duodenal ulcers.

(4) Sugar jujube sesame walnut pill: appropriate amount of sugar, 250g jujube (peeled), black sesame, walnut kernel and wolfberry fruit. * * * is fine powder, and refined honey is pills, each pill weighs 10g. Take 1 ~ 2 capsules each time, three times a day 1. The five flavors are combined to moisten the five internal organs, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and nourish the liver and kidney. It is suitable for constipation caused by yin deficiency of five internal organs. People with deficiency of both qi and yin can take it often.