Sugarcane clear heat and diminish inflammation 
 
 
Source: Beijing business today 

        "Sugar cane is sweet, sweet, clear heat and diminish inflammation, couldn't say for sure is the creator of this proverb eat sugar cane or sugar cane, is estimated by selling sugar cane. It is a product of modern, it is after the introduction of Chinese and western medicine have considerable popularity, because of the word "inflammation" are not innate in TCM theory. 
 
        Sugarcane name a lot, such as potato sugarcane, sugarcane, rod cane and sugar, intestinal grass, etc., according to the statistics, the name of not less than 30. Cane sugar content is about 18%, is mainly composed of three to composition, cane sugar, fructose and glucose after food easily absorbed by human body break down and converted into heat energy, for the body's metabolism. Besides sugar, sugar cane, beneficial to human body contains a variety of other nutrients, amino acids, in particular, to ensure that the needs of the human body tissues and organs physiological activities, make the body function of normal play, the human body senescence process is very important. 
 
        Sugarcane medicine early, use is very wide also, the spectrum with interest in the diet called sugarcane juice "born after pulse soup". After pulse soup for medical sage zhang zhongjing created, just as its name implies, the complex pulse, make the lost city of arteries and veins, is vital to life. The party by the main licorice, donkey-hide gelatin, codonopsis, radix rehmanniae, cassia twig, dwarf lilyturf, cannabis, jujube, ginger and so on many kinds of drug, treatment is less gas hemopenia, palpitations, shortness of breath, consumptive lung important formula of impotent, and modern Chinese medicine treatment of functional arrhythmia, extrasystole party, the basis of its curative effect of precise attention to a subject at home and abroad. 
 
        Sugar cane has been widely used in hurt, upset, tianjin thirst fever, high fever is not retreated, phlegm-heat type. Cough, stool stem node on the treatment of TCM ancient books of material medica and the solar corona son compendium of material medica and daily compendium of material medica and south yunnan were recorded in "new materia medica". Sugarcane has and stomach gas, for indigestion, nausea, vomiting, malaise showed symptoms of swallowing with ease, and improve, eliminate and treatment effect. And recorded in the medical books sugar cane with drug therapy, solution of fugu poison, boils the fire detoxification function, is the meaning of the proverb "clear heat and inflammation in the typical embodiment. 
 
        Sugar cane as edible and medicinal functions, have been recited by all previous dynasties scholars. The earliest mention of it is the patriotic poet qu yuan "evocation fu", FuZhong have "zhe (the ancient" cane "and pass) pulp xi" words. Wang wei in tang dynasty "diet, need not worry about internal heat, government and sugarcane pulp with cold" verse, not only revealed the sugar cane and cold resistance, it helps the spleen and stomach, muggy solution are summarized.
 
(selected from the traditional Chinese health folk saying words keeping in good health"
 
Written by wen long China press of traditional Chinese medicine)
 
 
 
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