Many parents add sugar when they give their children Chinese medicine. Is this really good?

Traditional Chinese medicine has five flavors: cold, hot, warm, cool, pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Smell is the medicinal characteristics of each medicine, which is summarized after repeated verification according to the actual curative effect. It is a high generalization of the role of drugs in nature. Many parents often add some sugar or honey to the soup to make the taste of Chinese medicine smoother. So when you eat Chinese medicine, can you add sugar or honey? Will it affect the curative effect?

I would like to remind you that adding sugar is not recommended when eating Chinese medicine. First of all, more sugar helps to heat. If the patient has symptoms such as abdominal distension, moderate fullness and thick and greasy tongue coating, it is generally forbidden to add sugar to prevent adverse reactions. Phlegm heat is not easy to take; In addition, white sugar is cool and brown sugar is warm. If white sugar is added to the warm prescription, or brown sugar is added to the cold medicine, the medicinal properties will be weakened, which will hinder the full absorption of the efficacy and affect the curative effect. On the other hand, the chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine is more complicated. Sugar, especially brown sugar, contains more elements such as iron and calcium. Protein and tannin in traditional Chinese medicine can combine with it to have a chemical reaction, which makes some effective components in the liquid medicine coagulate and denature, and then produces turbid precipitation, which affects the curative effect.

For honey, it has the effects of nourishing the middle energizer, moistening dryness, relieving pain and detoxicating, and can be used to treat abdominal pain, lung dryness, dry cough, irritable bowel constipation, and detoxification of aconite drugs. If you drink Chinese medicine, it is used to clear away heat and detoxify, clear away heat and moisten the lungs and the large intestine. Like honey, it will not only affect the efficacy, but also enhance the efficacy; If the medicine you drink has other functions, it is best not to add honey, because honey still contains sugar, which will reduce the efficacy of other drugs.

When parents saw their children crying and not drinking "bitter medicine", they thought of adding sugar. In fact, in every prescription, the ingredients of drugs are different from those of "sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty", and the properties of drugs are also different from those of "cold, hot, warm and cool". Sugar also has certain medicinal properties and curative effects. If sugar has the effects of moistening lung, invigorating spleen and soothing liver, it can be used to treat lung dryness, cough, dry mouth and stomachache. Therefore, Chinese medicine also regards sugar as a blind Chinese medicine. The old Chinese doctor reminded that it doesn't matter if it is an "emergency", and it doesn't matter if you eat a small amount of sugar occasionally. If you are a child with a fat and wet constitution, you should pay attention. Long-term use will affect digestive function and cause abdominal distension, indigestion and other diseases.