Honey is not only a kind of food, but also a kind of Chinese medicine. It is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of tonifying the middle warmer, moistening the lung and relieving cough, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, relaxing bowels, relieving pain and toxic materials, and enhancing immunity. All Chinese patent medicines for treating cough due to lung dryness, chronic cough due to yin deficiency and habitual constipation are recommended to be taken with proper amount of honey and warm water.

The main nutrients of honey are carbohydrates, protein, minerals, vitamins and polyphenols, which help to relieve cough symptoms. Honey is indispensable in many folk cough remedies. For example, steamed Sydney with honey can treat chronic cough caused by lung heat.

Honey can moisten lung, nourish lung yin, reduce lung dryness and heat, and endogenous yin fluid, thus achieving the purpose of relieving or curing cough caused by lung dryness due to yin deficiency.

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Honey also has the functions of promoting digestion, regulating gastrointestinal tract and relaxing bowels. Its efficacy may be related to fructose contained in honey. Fructose can increase the osmotic pressure in the intestine, which is beneficial to fecal excretion. At the same time, fructose acidifies the intestine, accelerates intestinal peristalsis and accelerates fecal excretion.

In ancient Chinese medicine, many traditional Chinese medicine pills for constipation, such as Huomaren Pill, were made with honey. Habitual constipation with traditional Chinese medicine combined with honey water can play a synergistic role.

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