Caramel, also known as our favorite childhood “maltose”, can not imagine, right? This is actually a qi tonic! Caramel since ancient times, 1, “Materia Medica Jing Jieji” Fangjia with caramel, is the cloud gelatin syrup, are wet sugar such as thick honey, Jianzhong soup more than used. It is not used in medicine for its condensation and the white ones. Today, the wine with quartz, sugar with cork, as if the same rice and wheat, but for the difference between the upper and middle, sugar when and run for the best, wine to drunken mess for the worst. 2, “Shu Materia Medica” “Tu Jing” cloud, syrup that is also known as soft sugar, the north is called the field. Japonica, corn, marijuana, atractylodes, Huang Jing, Hovenia dulcis, and so on, and can be made, but the author of glutinous rice into medicine. 3, “Compendium of Materia Medica” According to Liu Xi, “Interpretation of Names” cloud, 餹 of the clear one is said to be syrup, the shape of the Yiyi Ran also; thick one is said to be molasses, strong such as tin also; such as molasses and turbid one is said to be 汱. Idioms “Gan Zhi Ruyi” Allusion There is an idiom called “Gan Zhi Ruyi”, which comes from a very famous story: After being defeated by King Wu Fuzha, King Goujian of Yue had been suffering from humiliation, hoping that one day he would be able to recover his country. In order to remind him of the hatred of his country, he lived a life of hard work while actively pleasing Fu-chai, lowering Fu-chai’s wariness of Yue and gaining his trust in Yue. For example, when he learned that Fu Zhai liked thin and light clothes made of kudzu, he ordered his people to go into the mountains to pick kudzu and weave it into fabrics, so that he could offer them to Fu Zhai. This was a great success, and he was rewarded with many prizes, even the land that used to belong to the state of Yue was also given to him. Knowing that Goujian had tried very hard to restore his country and avenge his shame, a woman from Cai Ge in Yue wrote a poem called “Poem of Bitterness” to praise her king. One of the lines, “Tasting bile is not as bitter as sweet as syrup,” describes how Goujian tasted bile as a bitter thing, but Goujian, who was hardworking and self-motivated, regarded it as as sweet as sugar. Later on, the phrase “as sweet as syrup” was used to describe a person who is willing to take on hard things, or who is in a difficult situation, but is willing to accept it. The earlier idiom of “甘之如饴” is from the Song Dynasty. Zhen Dexiu (真德秀), “Preface to Sending Zhou Tianji (送周天骥序)”：”Non-righteous riches and honor are as far away as dirt; unfortunate poverty and cheapness are as sweet as syrup and honey.” Source and efficacy of caramel Source: caramel is made from glutinous rice or round-grained japonica rice ground and boiled, stirred with malt, and decocted over a slight fire. There are two kinds of soft and hard, the soft one is called gum syrup, and the hard one is called white syrup. Gum syrup is mainly used in medicine. Origin: Produced all over the country. Taste: Sweet, warm; attributed to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Effects: Tonifying the spleen and benefiting qi, relieving pain, moistening the lung and relieving cough. Note: This product helps dampness and generates heat, which makes people full, so it should not be taken in the following cases. 1, dampness and heat internal depression 2, fullness and vomiting 3, phlegm and heat cough 4, children’s chancre What are the uses of caramel 1, used for fatigue and injury to the spleen, shortness of breath and fatigue, and reduced food. This product can replenish the spleen and benefit the qi, such as: small Jianzhong Tang that is with this product with cinnamon sticks, white peony, hot licorice and other medicines to treat the above evidence. 2.It is used for abdominal pain with deficiency and cold, preferring warmth and pressure, and decreasing when having food. This product has the effect of tonifying the deficiency, relieving pain and easing the urgency, such as the above small Jianzhong Tang is also an effective formula for treating abdominal pain with deficiency cold; if the chest and abdomen are very cold and painful, it can be combined with Shu Pepper, Gan Ginger and Ginseng, i.e., Dajianzhong Tang. 3, for lung deficiency cough, dry cough without phlegm, shortness of breath for asthma. This product can tonify the deficiency and moisten the lung to relieve cough. It can be used alone, or with almonds, Baibu and other cough suppressants and asthma medicines used together. In addition, this product can also be used to stick and wrap foreign objects, such as accidentally swallowed rice mange (grass mange, rice tip fine thorns), fish bones and other things.