Can drinking boiled sugarcane water relieve cough?

Sugarcane is a fruit that tastes very sweet and contains a lot of water, so many people like to use sugarcane to boil water to drink. This will make the taste better and increase the sweetness of the food. Not only that, there are many nutrients in sugarcane, which can achieve a nourishing effect and can also have the effect of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough.

Modern medical research shows that sugarcane is rich in sugar and water. In addition, it also contains various vitamins, fats, proteins, organic acids, calcium, iron and other substances that are very beneficial to human metabolism. Sugarcane not only adds sweetness to food, but also provides the nutrients and calories needed by the human body.

It contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, asparagine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, alanine, valine, leucine, nor-histidine, lysine, hydroxybutyric acid, glutamine, proline, tyrosine, cystine, phenylalanine, γ-aminobutyric acid and other amino acids, fumaric acid, succinic acid, glycolic acid, malic acid, citric acid, oxalic acid and other organic acids and vitamins B1, B2, B6, C. The sugarcane bagasse after the juice is squeezed contains polysaccharides that have inhibitory effects on Ehrlich carcinoma and sarcoma 180 in mice.

Indications

Sugarcane tastes sweet and astringent, is neutral in nature and non-toxic.

It is mainly used to harmonize the middle qi, help the spleen, benefit the large intestine, eliminate phlegm and quench thirst, eliminate heart and chest heat, and detoxify alcohol; it can also treat vomiting and nausea, and relax the chest. Eating sugarcane and wine together will produce phlegm; eating too much will cause false heat and nose bleeding. Burn the ashes and grind into powder. Apply it frequently on children's head sores and white baldness to cure them. Be careful not to let the smoke from burning enter people's eyes, otherwise it may cause vision loss.

To treat nausea: use seven liters of sugarcane juice and one liter of ginger juice, mix them well, and swallow them slowly every day.

To treat oral ulcers in children: burn and grind sugarcane peel, and rub it on the affected area.

Dietary effects

Sugarcane tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, harmonizing the stomach and stopping vomiting, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is mainly used to treat dry mouth and tongue, lack of body fluid, difficult urination, dry and hard stools, indigestion, nausea and vomiting, hiccups, high fever and thirst, etc.

Suitable for people

It can be eaten by the general public, but should not be eaten by those with weak spleen and stomach, or cold and abdominal pain. Sugarcane is a good food therapy product that can clear, moisten, and nourish. It has been widely praised by people throughout the ages. Even those noble and elegant literati have a special liking for it. Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his "Cherry Poem": "Don't worry about internal heat when eating, as officials still have sugarcane juice to keep you cool." The great medical scientist Li Shizhen had a different opinion on sugarcane. He said: "Drinking sugarcane and banyan juice is good, but it is not as delicious as chewing it", which perfectly expresses the subtlety of eating sugarcane.