Can brown sugar detox improve allergies? Traditional Chinese medicine: limited effect

The weather is suddenly cold, and the freezing temperature makes people with allergies unbearable, with cold hands and feet. Recently, it has been circulated on the Internet that eating brown sugar can detoxify and improve allergies. Chinese doctors believe that the effect is limited. To improve your allergic constitution, you should start from all aspects of life, diet, exercise, sleep, etc., and develop good living habits, so that you can stay away from allergies and stay healthy. There is a rumor on the Internet that eating brown sugar can improve allergies. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe that people with "damp-heat constitution" allergies will have limited help. (Photography/Huang Zhiwen)

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu pointed out that brown sugar is rich in a variety of nutrients. For example, every 100 grams of brown sugar contains 90 mg of calcium and 4 mg of iron, which is three times that of white sugar; It does not contain carotene, vitamin B2, etc.; in addition, the glucose content in brown sugar is very high. Glucose is an energy substance that the human body can directly utilize and can be absorbed directly without digestion.

Clinically, "brown sugar water" has special effects, especially when women drink boiled water with brown sugar during confinement. It can activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, relieve pain, help uterine contractions recover, and promote the discharge of lochia as soon as possible. ; Moreover, brown sugar water contains a high concentration of glucose and has a diuretic effect, which can reduce postpartum bladder urine retention and thereby avoid urinary system infections.

Although brown sugar can reduce allergies and has detoxification function, if someone in the family has a food allergy or seafood allergy, immediately drink a cup of brown sugar with warm water. The allergy will improve immediately and the redness and swelling will slow down. Fades slowly. However, for people with "damp-heat constitution" allergies, the help is limited, and their skin may even become more itchy after eating brown sugar, so be especially careful.

In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that only with sufficient Qi can one have sufficient immunity and be less likely to develop allergies. Allergy phenomena also vary from person to person and react in different parts, such as the nose, lungs, skin, etc., and these allergic reactions can be attributed to "incomplete heat dissipation."

Replenishing qi and blood improves allergies

It is worth noting that people with healthy large intestines are less likely to suffer from allergies. It is recommended that the public should consume more vegetables, high-fiber and other foods, which can not only help intestinal peristalsis and increase stool volume, but also "replenish qi". Eating beans, fish, meat and other nutritious and high-quality proteins, fats, and sugars can also achieve the function of "tonifying blood."

According to the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with Qi and blood deficiency may also have pale lips, dizziness, and pale nails. Women may have very little menstrual flow and have pale colors. This type of patient is most likely to feel that their hands and feet are cold, swollen or thin. People with this type of constitution need more Qi supplements to improve their constitution.

"Qi-tonifying" medicinal materials, such as Scutellaria baicalensis, American ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, etc., can regulate allergic constitution. However, if people want to use Chinese medicine to regulate their bodies, it is recommended to choose experienced professional Chinese medicine practitioners. Diagnose your own pulse and prescribe medicine suitable for your own constitution to avoid replenishing qi and detoxifying the qi.