Is it OK for children to eat rock candy?

Rock sugar is also a kind of sucrose. It is also mainly made from sugarcane. However, rock sugar is usually the last sucrose in the process of making white sugar, so the viscosity and sweetness of rock sugar are much higher than those of white sugar. However, rock sugar is rich in nutrients and eating it in moderation is very good for the body. But some parents give rock sugar to their children as candy. Is this okay? Let’s learn about it together today.

The role and effect of rock sugar is that it can moisten the lungs, relieve cough and soothe the stomach. In addition, rock sugar can also replenish qi and blood sugar and has the benefit of diuresis. Children's teeth are still developing, so try not to eat sugar. You can boil rock sugar with pears in water and give it to your baby. This will be better, not so sweet, and can also relieve cough and moisten the lungs.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, clearing phlegm, and removing heat. It is also an auxiliary ingredient for making medicinal wine and stewing tonics.

⒈ Function: Nourish the middle and replenish qi, harmonize the stomach and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

⒉ Nature and flavor: sweet, neutral, non-toxic. Meridians: Enters the lung and spleen meridians.

⒊ Effects: Nourishes yin and produces body fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves cough.

⒋ Indications: dry cough due to lung dryness, dry cough without sputum, and blood in sputum.

It is used for cough and asthma caused by lung dryness, lung deficiency, wind-cold and fatigue, malaria in children, lockjaw dysentery, mouth ulcers, and toothache caused by wind and fire.

Rock sugar is warm in nature and has the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It is widely used in high-end supplements and health products produced by the food and pharmaceutical industries. The elderly can also relieve dry mouth by chewing dissolved rock sugar.

Pharmacological action: It can replenish water and sugar in the body, and has the effects of replenishing body fluids, supplying energy, replenishing blood sugar, strengthening the heart and promoting diuresis, and detoxifying. Indications: Its 5% solution is an isotonic solution, used for various acute poisonings to promote the excretion of poisons; 10%~50% is a high solution, used for hypoglycemia, malnutrition, or for the treatment of heart failure, cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, etc.