Can you put sugar in Chinese medicine?

It is generally not recommended to put sugar in Chinese medicine soup. Chinese medicine believes that sugar is also a traditional Chinese medicine, has the effect of moistening the lung and the middle, tonifying the spleen and slowing down the liver, and can be used to treat lung dryness and coughing, dry mouth and tongue, middle Jiao deficiency, stomach pain, clinical use is also contraindicated. First of all, more sugar will help heat, if the patient has abdominal distension, damp-heat stagnation, phlegm-heat, thick and greasy tongue, etc., generally forbidden to add sugar to avoid aggravating the condition. Secondly, white sugar is cool in nature and brown sugar is warm in nature. If white sugar is added to warm remedies or brown sugar is added to cold remedies, it may weaken the medicinal properties and affect the therapeutic effect. Lastly, the composition of Chinese medicines is complex, and sugar may have chemical reactions with the iron, calcium and other elements in them, affecting the efficacy of the medicines and even jeopardizing human health. In addition, if you have diabetes, you should not add sugar when drinking Chinese medicine, and you can consult your doctor before taking Chinese medicine clinically to identify whether the characteristics of the drug can be added sugar. In short, Chinese medicine soup is generally not recommended to add sugar, the specific circumstances can consult a physician, under the guidance of the physician to take medication.