Edible efficacy of rock sugar
Rock candy can be used as candy or snack. The most famous snack is Sugar-Coated Berry, which is made by wrapping plums or hawthorn with rock sugar. But Sugar-Coated Berry's sugar is just boiled sugar, which is not as high as real rock sugar.
Rock sugar can be used to make soup, stew or dessert; The famous "rock sugar Xianglian" is a delicacy of Hunan cuisine in the eight major cuisines. There are also dishes such as "rock sugar Sydney" and "rock sugar bird's nest".
Rock candy can be taken by decoction with meals, or made into pills and ointments.
Rock sugar is sweet and flat, and enters the lungs and spleen; Has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung; Rock candy can nourish yin and promote fluid production, moisten lung and relieve cough, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on lung dry cough, dry cough without phlegm and expectoration with blood; Can be used for treating cough and asthma, infantile malaria, dysentery, aphtha and toothache caused by lung dryness, lung deficiency and wind-cold fatigue.
Medicinal efficacy of rock sugar
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.
1. Function: tonify middle energizer, strengthen stomach, moisten lung, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.
2. Sexual taste: sweet, flat and non-toxic. Meridian tropism: entering lung and spleen meridians.