Can drink western medicine add sugar?

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After the baby is sick, the most difficult thing for parents is: to see Western medicine, the baby is afraid of injection; See Chinese medicine, the baby is afraid to drink medicine. The effect of traditional Chinese medicine decoction is very good, but it is bitter. Needless to say, it is difficult for adults to drink it. So some people thought, in order to cover up the bitter taste, can you add some sugar in the decoction?

Can drink western medicine add sugar?

In each prescription, the composition of drugs are "sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty" different, properties also have "cold, hot, warm, cool" differences. Sugar also has certain properties and curative effects. For example, sugar has the effects of moistening the lung, tonifying the spleen and soothing the liver. It can be used to treat lung dry cough, dry mouth and tongue, deficiency of middle energizer and stomachache. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine also regards sugar as a traditional Chinese Medicine. However, it is also taboo in clinical use.

White sugar is cool and brown sugar is warm. If white sugar is added to warm medicament or brown sugar is added to cold medicament, it will weaken the property, hinder the full absorption of efficacy and affect the curative effect. If the patient has abdominal distension, stagnation of damp heat in the body, accumulation of phlegm in the body, thick and greasy tongue coating, it is generally forbidden to add sugar to avoid adverse reactions. Those with phlegm should not take it.

Some drugs stimulate the secretion of digestive glands through the use of bitter taste, so as to give better play to the curative effect. For example, Rhizoma Coptidis, through the excitation of taste analyzer, can improve the excitation of appetite center, and reflexively cause the increase of gastric juice secretion, so as to play the role of strengthening the stomach. If you add sugar, you will lose this effect, it will not achieve the therapeutic effect.

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Many young mothers are always in a hurry to give their babies medicine. One mother said, "every time I give my baby Chinese medicine, I spit it out and cry for a long time, which makes me cry. If Chinese medicine is sweet, it's good.". In fact, there is also a trick to add sugar to traditional Chinese medicine. Children with symptoms such as yellow urine, red face, body heat and constipation are mostly heat syndrome, and it's best not to add sugar to drugs. Because brown sugar is sweet and easy to get wet, it can't be added especially for children with damp heat and thick tongue coating. For children with cold syndrome, appropriate amount of brown sugar can be added to the medicine, but white sugar is cold, which is easy to aggravate the disease, so it should not be added.