Chinese medicine is bitter can't mess with sugar

Dai Wenjuan Dongyang, zhejiang province, Chinese medicine hospital

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        Chinese medicine is good but the taste bitter, when many people are drinking Chinese traditional medicine can add some sugar. But sugar are medicinal herbs with runfei and medium, the effect of tonifying spleen slow liver, can be used for treatment of phlegm-heat type. Cough, dry mouth and stomach disorders.

        In each prescription drug is composed of "sour, bitter, sweet, bitter and salty" different, medicinal also has "cold, hot, warm, cool" differences. Therefore, when drinking Chinese traditional medicine with sugar, light person reduce curative effect, the person that weigh can produce side effects.

        Sugar will be hot. If a patient with abdominal distension full, stagnation of damp and hot, thick tongue coating in the bored with wait for a symptom, generally it is strictly prohibited to sugar, to avoid the adverse reaction.

        White sugar, brown sugar, cooler temperature. If you add sugar to warm reagent, or add brown sugar to cold potions, will abate medicinal, block effect of full absorption, affect curative effect.

        The chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine is more complex, especially the brown sugar, sugar contains more iron, calcium and other elements, the composition of protein and tannin in traditional Chinese medicine can be, and produces chemical reaction, make some effective ingredient of the solidification degeneration of liquids, which in turn generate turbidity and precipitate, not only affect the efficacy, and a health hazard.

        Some medicine by using bitter to stimulate the digestive gland secretion, thus play a better curative effect. Such as rhizoma coptidis is through the excitement of taste analyzer, and then improve appetite center excited, reflex sexual ground to cause gastric juice secretion increased, so as to play a good role. If sugar, you will lose this role, and to reach the effect of the treatment.

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