[Variety Source]
This product, also known as maltose, maltose, sugar candy, is a sugar food made from sticky rice, rice, wheat flour, foxtail millet or corn after cooking and fermentation, and adding Germinated Barley through fermentation saccharification. There are soft and hard types. species, the soft maltose is mainly used as medicine.
[Property]
sweet, warm. act on spleen, stomach and lung channels.
[Efficacy]
tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi, relieving pain, moistening lung and relieving cough.
[Indications]
It is used for spleen damage caused by overstrain, shortness of breath, lack of strength, and reduced appetite; used for abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold, which likes warmth and pressure, and will be reduced when food is obtained; used for lung deficiency cough, dry cough without phlegm, shortness of breath and wheezing.
- For those who are in the stage of convalescence after illness, are physically weak or have malnutrition in children, take an appropriate amount of maltose, and take it infused with boiled water for a tonic effect.
- Chronic bronchitis, 5 cents of maltose, 1 bowl of pounded white radish juice, steam it and take it.
- The old man is polydipsia. Use one liter of barley, add seven liters of water and cook it to five liters, then add two liters of brown sugar, and drink it when you are thirsty.
- pestilent furuncle (cutaneous anthrax) (Note: This sore is shaped like a long bow, with a precise exit point at one end and a hole in the point, like a fish navel). Apply maltose on it. If the sugar has dried, burn ashes and apply on it.
- Poisonous sores, fire burns. The treatment is the same as above.
[Precaution]
This product is sweet, warm and moist, can help dampness, heat and make people feel full. Patients with dampness-heat, obesity and many diseases should use it with caution.
[Modern Pharmacology]
maltose, glucose, dextrin, vitamin B, iron.
