What is brown sugar?
Brown sugar, dark in color and burnt. Brown sugar contains a lot of nutrients and has a unique effect on skin health and nutrition. It can accelerate the metabolism of skin cells, provide energy for cells, supplement nutrition and promote regeneration. Brown sugar contains unique natural acids and pigment regulating substances, which can effectively regulate the metabolism of various pigments, balance the secretion and distribution of pigments in the skin, and reduce the abnormal accumulation of local pigments.
What is brown sugar for?
1, regulating menstruation and warming uterus to treat dysmenorrhea
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm and sweet, and has the effects of enriching blood, regulating menstruation, promoting blood circulation to dispel cold, invigorating middle energizer, promoting blood circulation to relieve pain, removing blood stasis, strengthening spleen and warming stomach. Especially in summer, it can dredge meridians and improve blood circulation without causing dysmenorrhea. Black sugar water is of great help to women's smooth menstruation. Drinking hot black sugar water can warm the body, increase energy, activate qi and blood, speed up blood circulation and make menstruation smoother.
2, qi and blood, cold.
Brown sugar has always been considered as a good blood tonic, and it is also the first choice for gynecological food supplement and cold elimination. People who suffer from cold and abdominal pain and are prone to catch a cold during menstruation can also use brown sugar and ginger soup to dispel cold and improve immunity. People with qi deficiency, qi stagnation and blood stasis are most suitable for eating brown sugar. However, people with yang deficiency and internal heat, obesity and diabetes should not eat more.
3. Detoxify and moisten dryness, tonify deficiency and remove blood stasis
Brown sugar has a special function of detoxification and moistening, mainly because of its natural components, which can remove free radicals and toxins from blood vessels. From the perspective of TCM health, brown sugar has many functions, which is quite helpful to the human body, especially to women. Eating brown sugar can replenish blood and detoxify, and has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on dysmenorrhea.
Is there a difference between brown sugar and brown sugar?
1, color depth: the color depth between brown sugar and brown sugar is caused by the different time of boiling syrup. The brown sugar is boiled for a long time, and the sugar brick made from concentrated syrup presents a nearly black appearance.
2, refining method: whether it is brown sugar, brown sugar, yellow sugar, white sugar or rock sugar, the initial refining method is the same. The reason why it becomes different colors and different kinds of sugar is because the degree of decoloration is different in the final refining.
3, nutrients: Brown sugar retains more nutrients in sugarcane, which is more easily digested and absorbed by the human body and can quickly replenish physical strength, so it is called "chocolate of the East". In addition, it also contains malic acid, riboflavin, carotene, folic acid, manganese, zinc, chromium and other indispensable trace elements for human growth and development.
Is there anything to pay attention to when eating brown sugar?
1. The dosage should be reduced for patients with yin deficiency and internal heat, and the dosage can be appropriately increased during female physiological period. Obesity, patients with various eye diseases need to reduce the dose.
2. Brown sugar and milk can't be eaten at the same time, because protein and brown sugar in milk can undergo glycosylation reaction at high temperature, resulting in glycosylation intermediates, which can lead to vascular endothelial damage and accelerate atherosclerosis.