bubble_chart Source This product, also known as maltose or malt sugar, is a type of sugar food made from sticky rice, rice, wheat flour, foxtail millet, or corn through steaming, fermentation, and the addition of germinated barley for saccharification. It comes in two forms: soft and hard, with the soft maltose being primarily used for medicinal purposes.
bubble_chart Properties and Meridians
Sweet, warm. act on spleen, stomach and lung channels.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi, alleviating pain and spasms, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
bubble_chart Indications
Used for overstrain damaging the spleen, shortness of breath, lack of strength, and reduced appetite; used for abdominal pain due to cold deficiency, preferring warmth and pressure, relieved by eating; used for lung deficiency cough, dry cough without phlegm, and shortness of breath with wheezing.
- During the convalescence stage after illness, for those with weak constitution or children with malnutrition, take an appropriate amount of maltose infused in boiling water for a tonic effect.
- For chronic bronchitis, take 5 qian of maltose and 1 bowl of mashed white radish juice, steam and consume.
- For elderly people with excessive thirst. Boil one liter of barley in seven liters of water until reduced to five liters, then add two ge of red maltose, and drink when thirsty.
- For pestilent furuncle (cutaneous anthrax) (Note: This sore is shaped like a long bow, with a precise exit point at one end, and a hole on the point, resembling a fish's navel). Apply maltose to the sore, and if the sugar has dried, burn it to ash and apply.
- For toxic sores and burns. The treatment is the same as above.
bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications
This product is sweet, warm, and moist in nature, which may promote dampness and generate heat, leading to bloating. Patients with dampness-heat or those who are obese and suffer from multiple ailments should use it with caution.
bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology
Maltose, glucose, dextrin, vitamin B, iron.
