Brown sugar is fire when you eat too much of it.

From the point of view of Chinese medicine, brown sugar is warm, sweet, into the spleen, with the benefit of qi and blood, spleen and stomach, slow in pain, blood, the role of. Help the spleen, blood, dispel cold, break the stasis into the medicine more brown sugar; clear heat, anti-inflammatory, moistening the lungs more white sugar or rock sugar.

Cooking brown sugar into brown sugar water to drink than directly eat more easily absorb the nutrients, pregnant women postpartum blood loss, physical strength and energy consumption, in the postpartum 7 to 10 days if you drink some brown sugar water, can replenish energy. Brown sugar water can also be added to white fungus, wolfberry, red dates or red beans together.

Consumption history

Mr. Ji Xianlin believes that the specific origin of brown sugar in China "began in the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty sometime between the era, at least before the Wei Dynasty." It was not widely consumed at the beginning of its existence, but was basically used for medicinal purposes, and its use is documented in pharmacopoeias such as the Thousand Golden Essentials and the Herbal Medicine of Food Therapy.

Since Emperor Tang Taizong sent an envoy to India to learn the improvement of sugar technology, open-flame boiling method has been popularized, China's sugarcane planting area gradually expanding, brown sugar gradually into the people's homes, but also from the medicinal transition to food.

The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Brown Sugar