Is it okay to add sugar to Chinese medicine?

　　Is it okay to add sugar to Chinese medicine?

　　From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, sugar is also a medicine. White sugar has a cooling property and can reduce internal heat ； Brown sugar is warm and can dispel cold. In folk prescriptions, boiling tea with white sugar is used to dispel fire. ； Boil ginger and onion water with brown sugar to dispel cold and treat cold wait. Therefore, white sugar can be added to cold medicines, and brown sugar can be added to hot medicines, which will not affect the efficacy of the medicine.

　　If you add sugar casually, it may affect the efficacy of the medicine. Parents may wish to ask the doctor whether sugar can be added when prescribing. Although some drugs are bitter, their bitter taste plays a certain pharmacological role. Ruguatisan is a bitter emetic that stimulates the taste on the tongue with its bitter taste. nerve , causes vomiting through nerve reflexes. If taken with sugar, the medicine may lose its efficacy, so this type of medicine should not be taken with sugar.

　　The chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine is very complex, and components such as proteins and tannins can interact with impurities such as iron and calcium in brown sugar, thereby changing the efficacy of the medicine. Therefore, it is not advisable to add sugar randomly when taking traditional Chinese medicine.