My answer is yes, but it depends on the situation. There are several clinical situations:

1, if children are too bitter to eat medicine, they can add sugar, because if they can't drink it, it will be even worse for treating diseases.

2. If adults and children add sugar every time they drink medicine, it is unnecessary, because sugar is sweet, after all, it has a little impact on the efficacy of medicine.

3, sugar is also blindly Chinese medicine, according to different conditions, appropriate addition of sugar can also improve the curative effect, on the contrary, reduce the curative effect, so it is necessary to talk about the efficacy of each "sugar, sugar, sugar".

In the view of Chinese medicine, everything is a medicinal material, just how to use it. What kinds of sugar do we commonly have?

1, brown sugar is a mixture of sucrose and molasses; Brown sugar is warm, sweet, and enters the spleen, and has the functions of invigorating qi and enriching blood, strengthening spleen and warming stomach, relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Brown sugar is hot, you can get rid of the cold, and you can drink some purple perilla ginger brown sugar water for exogenous cold. At the same time, brown sugar also has the function of enriching blood, and you can eat brown sugar eggs after delivery. Women with dysmenorrhea also use brown sugar. However, people with hot constitution should use brown sugar with caution, and it is easy to get damp and hot if they eat it.

2. White sugar is made from brown sugar through several processes such as washing, centrifugation, honey separation and stripping. White sugar is flat in nature and sweet in taste, enters the lung and spleen meridian, and has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening lung, promoting spleen to promote fluid production, invigorating middle warmer and invigorating qi, clearing away heat and eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, detoxicating and sobering up, lowering turbidity and refreshing the mind, etc. It can be used for adjuvant treatment of abdominal pain due to deficiency, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cough due to lung dryness, dry mouth and thirst, beriberi, scabies, bittern poisoning, scrotal eczema and other diseases. In addition, white sugar can inhibit bacteria and prevent corrosion, so jams and preserves made of sugar can last for a long time, and people also use white sugar to treat wound decay and exudation. But eating more sugar is easy to produce phlegm.

3. Rock sugar is formed by recrystallization of white sugar under certain conditions; Rock sugar moistens the lungs and produces fluid. Pear and rock sugar can moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, and treat cough. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar is cool, enters the lung and spleen meridians, and has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing phlegm and removing fire. The old man is thirsty and can contain a piece of rock sugar. Rock sugar is also an auxiliary material for making pharmaceutical wine and stewing supplements. The crystal sugar also has the functions of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and turbidity, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, stopping sweating and detoxicating, and can be used for treating diseases such as deficiency of middle energizer, cough due to lung heat, expectoration with blood, chronic cough due to yin deficiency, dry mouth and throat, sore throat, and night sweats in children. Eating more is also easy to produce phlegm.

4. Maltose is a sugar food made of glutinous rice, japonica rice, wheat flour, millet or corn by steaming and fermenting, and adding malt for fermentation and saccharification; Sweet and warm, it enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of caring skin, nourishing spleen and benefiting qi, moistening lung and relieving cough, relieving pain, nourishing internal organs, stimulating appetite and relieving constipation, etc., and is mainly used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, shortness of breath, anorexia, abdominal pain due to deficiency of cold, cough due to lung dryness, dry cough with little phlegm and sore throat. However, it should be used with caution if the middle qi is weak, the digestion is insufficient, the body is damp and hot, and the body is fat and sick, because maltose will help damp and heat, which makes people prone to abdominal distension.

I'm sure you're a little dizzy after reading it, so let's summarize it a little:

1, it seems that there is dark sugar, which is generally rich in nutrients and relatively warm. Eating more is easy to help damp heat.

2, it looks white, and the general nutrients are single and cool, which can treat diseases of deficiency and heat, and it is easy to produce phlegm when eating.

So why do we use rock sugar in our daily life? Stewed Sydney and perilla ginger with brown sugar? Sugar? Lotus porridge and so on, so what sugar to put is very particular.