Effects and functions of rock sugar and how to eat it

The raw material of rock sugar is granulated sugar. We use the crystallization of granulated sugar to make rock sugar. Rock sugar is a common food, so what are the effects and functions of rock sugar, and how should we eat rock sugar? Rock sugar has very high edible value and medicinal value. Eating rock sugar regularly can help reduce phlegm and relieve cough. Rock sugar has a good effect of removing fire.

Rock sugar can nourish the middle and moisten the lungs. It has a good stomach-nourishing function. We can use rock sugar to detoxify. Rock sugar can also help with symptoms such as hypoglycemia, malnutrition, and pulmonary edema.

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: Enters 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.

Fungus steamed duck eggs effective recipe:

Take a little black fungus, 1 duck egg and rock sugar. Add water and steam it in a steamer and eat it twice a day. It can cure cough caused by yin deficiency and dry lungs. This folk remedy is also effective for dry throat and less phlegm.

Rock sugar can be used as candy or as a snack. The most famous snack is Tanghulu, which is made of plums or hawthorns wrapped in rock sugar. However, the sugar used to make candied haws is merely boiled sugar and does not have as high a sugar content as real rock sugar.

Rock sugar can be used to cook soups, stews or make desserts; the famous "Ring Sugar Xianglian" is a delicacy of Hunan cuisine among the eight major cuisines. There are also dishes such as "Rock Sugar Snow Pear" and "Rock Sugar Bird's Nest".

Rock sugar can be boiled into a soup and taken internally, as a side dish with meals, or made into pills or pastes.

Rock sugar is sweet and neutral in nature. It enters the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effects of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs. Rock sugar nourishes yin and produces body fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on dry cough, dry cough without sputum, and sputum with blood. It is used for cough and asthma caused by dry lung, lung deficiency, wind-cold and fatigue, malaria in children, lockjaw dysentery, mouth ulcers, and toothache caused by wind and fire.

Rock sugar can be put into coffee, and it is sweet and delicious.

Above, we introduced what rock sugar is. We know that rock sugar is made from the crystallization of granulated sugar. The above also introduced the effects and functions of rock sugar. We also understand and know how to eat rock sugar. After a comprehensive understanding of rock sugar, everyone should know how to make good use of rock sugar.