Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar has the functions of moistening lung and relieving cough, resolving phlegm and removing fire. It is also an auxiliary material for brewing medicinal liquor and stewing tonic. Crystal sugar has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and turbidity, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, stopping sweating and detoxicating, and can be used for treating diseases such as deficiency of middle warmer, cough due to lung heat, expectoration with blood, chronic cough due to yin deficiency, dry mouth and sore throat, night sweats in children, toothache due to wind-fire and so on.
Rock sugar is flat, has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is widely used in high-grade tonics and health products produced by food and pharmaceutical industries. Old people can also quench their thirst by containing rock sugar.
Rock candy can supplement water and sugar in the body, and has the functions of supplementing body fluids, supplying energy, supplementing blood sugar, strengthening the heart and diuresis, and detoxifying. Indications: its 5% solution is isotonic solution, which is used for all kinds of acute poisoning and promotes the excretion of poisons; 10%~50% is a high solution, which is used for hypoglycemia and malnutrition, or for treating heart failure, brain edema and pulmonary edema.