Is sugarcane on fire: Yellow sugarcane is sweet and cool, black sugarcane is warm and hot

Sugarcane is generally divided into two kinds, one is the yellow skin sugarcane with blue and yellow skin, commonly known as the yellow skin sugarcane. It is sweet and cool, has the effect of clearing away heat, and can relieve lung heat and stomach heat, lung heat and cough. This kind of sugarcane will not burn. The other is sugarcane with dark purple skin and near black skin, commonly known as black skin sugarcane. It is not suitable for sugarcane with warm nature and hot throat little knowledge of sugarcane with yellow skin 1. Selection of high quality sugarcane: when identifying sugarcane, we should master the principle of "touch, look and smell". Touch is to test the softness and hardness of sugarcane; look is to see whether the pulp of sugarcane is fresh (the texture of fresh sugarcane is hard, the pulp is milky white, with fragrance); smell is to identify the smell of sugarcane. The mildewed sugarcane has a soft texture. The pulp is a little dark and light brown. It smells tasteless or a little wine trough.

2. Inedible sugarcane: Sugarcane infected by fungus cannot be selected. Otherwise, it will cause vomiting, convulsion, coma and other poisoning symptoms. black cane

According to traditional Chinese medicine, sugarcane has the special effects of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, lowering Qi, moistening dryness, nourishing lung and benefiting stomach. Sugarcane can be used to treat dampness caused by fever, upset and thirsty, nausea and vomiting, cough and asthma caused by lung dryness. In addition, sugarcane can defecate and untie knots, and drinking its juice can also alleviate alcoholism However, eating too much sucrose is not very good for the brain, and long-term use will cause great damage to teeth.

Sugarcane juice itself is cool. People with deficiency of cold constitution should not drink more. If cold cough (white and thin phlegm) is drunk by mistake, the condition may worsen in real time. It's said that it's not necessary to extract juice until it's steamed, but its efficacy remains to be verified. However, bamboo cane with Citronella root and radish boiling water has the effect of clearing away heat. It's the best time for children to have eye droppings and grumpy temper. If the water chestnut (horseshoe) is added, it can be used in the treatment of chickenpox or measles in children. When the water is often drunk, it can clear away heat and detoxify, which can not only help the transmission of the virus, but also accelerate the recovery.

As for those who eat sugarcane, their mouth will become inflamed (blistering), because:

Situation 1: the main component of sugarcane is fiber, the fiber of sugarcane is special, especially thick, and the tissue of tongue is tender. When eating sugarcane, the tongue and the fiber of sugarcane will rub, which is easy to sting the tissue on the tongue.

Situation 2: sugarcane juice is rich in sugar, and there are salivary glands on the tongue. The so-called saliva is an enzyme. This enzyme is a maltase, which can convert sugar in the mouth into maltose, which is the reaction that makes the tongue blister.