Does rock sugar increase or reduce internal heat?

We all know that rock sugar is indispensable in our lives. When we were young, our family had no money and whenever we wanted to eat snacks, our grandmother would give us a piece of rock sugar. Not only that, rock sugar can also be used to make candied haws. When making some desserts, you can also melt the rock sugar and add it to the desserts, which is better than cotton candy. So, does eating rock sugar frequently cause or reduce internal heat?

Rock sugar is made from the crystallization of granulated sugar. It is generally used to increase the sweetness of food. The characteristics of rock sugar are that it is not easy to deteriorate and it has good health effects. Rock sugar can be used to make various fructose and can also be used for seasoning. In particular, we can add rock sugar when drinking coffee. Rock sugar is not only edible but also medicinal.

Does rock sugar cause internal heat?

Since rock sugar has such comprehensive benefits, will it cause any harm if we often eat it? For example, getting "internal heat" (internal heat) is a term used in traditional Chinese medicine, which means that the internal heat in the body is too strong. Generally, the internal heat is liver fire or heart fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, clearing phlegm, and removing heat.

It is also an auxiliary ingredient for making medicinal wine and stewing tonics. Rock sugar has the functions of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, relieving restlessness and thirst, clearing away heat and reducing turbidity, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid, stopping sweating and detoxifying. It can be used to treat symptoms such as insufficient middle qi, cough due to lung heat, coughing up blood, long-term cough due to yin deficiency, dry mouth and throat, sore throat, night sweats in children, toothache caused by wind and fire, etc.

1. Function: tonify the middle and replenish qi, harmonize the stomach and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

2. Nature and flavor: sweet, neutral, non-toxic. Meridians entered: enter the lung and spleen meridians.

3. Efficacy: nourishes yin and produces body fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves cough.

4. Indications: dry cough due to lung dryness, dry cough without sputum, and bloody sputum. Rock sugar is mild in nature and has the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It is widely used in high-end supplements and health products produced by the food and pharmaceutical industries.

The elderly can also relieve dry mouth by chewing dissolved rock sugar.

Pharmacological action: It can replenish water and sugar in the body, and has the effects of replenishing body fluids, supplying energy, replenishing blood sugar, strengthening the heart and promoting diuresis, and detoxifying. Indications: Its 5% solution is an isotonic solution, used for various acute poisonings to promote the excretion of poisons; 10%~50% is a high solution, used for hypoglycemia, malnutrition, or for the treatment of heart failure, cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, etc.