White sugar is generally made of brown sugar through several processes, while rock sugar is made by dissolving white sugar into liquid, removing impurities, then evaporating water and freezing and crystallizing.
High-quality rock candy, translucent, with crystal luster. It is best to eat nourishing food with clear white rock sugar. Long-term use of rock sugar water can also effectively clear fire and provide the body with the required glucose, but it is recommended to eat it in moderation.
The role of rock sugar
1, edible
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.
2. Medicinal use
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: Tonifying middle warmer, nourishing stomach, moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
2. Taste: sweet, flat and non-toxic. Meridian tropism: entering lung and spleen meridians.
3, efficacy: nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
4, indications: dry cough in the lungs, dry cough without sputum, blood in sputum.
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