Be careful with the sugar. Traditional Chinese medicine adopts the method of "syndrome differentiation and treatment" when diagnosing diseases. Diseases are divided into cold and heat deficiency and excess, and the right medicine is given. Cold medicine is used for fever and hot medicine for cold. Once confused, it will affect the curative effect. Chinese medicine believes that sugar also has medicinal value. White sugar is cool and can dispel "fire", while brown sugar is warm and can dispel "cold". If cool drugs are added with brown sugar and hot drugs with white sugar, the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine will be affected. Therefore, when the family refuses to take Chinese medicine, it is ok to add some sugar to the medicine, but we must find out what sugar to add.

Because: ① sugar can inhibit the efficacy of some antipyretics, interfere with the absorption of minerals and vitamins, and have diuretic effect. (2) Some drugs have bitter taste or other peculiar smell stimulation. For example, some stomach-invigorating drugs stimulate digestive glands and promote the secretion of digestive juice through their bitter taste, thus achieving therapeutic purposes. (3) Sugar can alleviate the effective components of some drugs, such as sugar can alleviate some of the effects of the extremely bitter drug Semen Strychni. ④ Some patients should not eat sugar, such as patients with diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver and suppurative diseases. Therefore, whether you eat traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, you can't add sugar at will because it has bitter taste.

Therefore, if you want to add sugar, you need to pay attention.