According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, sugarcane is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of strengthening the stomach and spleen, relieving coughs and reducing phlegm, clearing heat and relieving alcohol toxicity, and moistening the intestines to promote bowel movements.
Sugarcane is an excellent tonic for winter. Eating raw sugarcane has a good therapeutic effect on dry mouth and throat, red and swollen eyes, difficult urination, dry stools, and headache with fever. It is especially suitable for those with febrile diseases, high fever and thirst, hypoglycemia, heart weakness, or alcohol poisoning to drink sugarcane juice. Therefore, the ancients called sugarcane juice "Naturally Restoring the Pulse Soup". Research has found that sugarcane is rich in nutrients. In addition to sugar, it also contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and various vitamins, as well as various amino acids and organic acids.
There are many ways to eat sugarcane in winter. Take fresh sugarcane, wash it, peel it, cut it into small pieces, and extract its juice. Drinking 2 cups daily, one in the morning and one in the evening, has the effects of nourishing the lungs and moistening dryness, promoting the production of body fluids to quench thirst, and tonifying the spleen and strengthening the stomach. Take 1000 ml of sugarcane juice and 60 grams of foxtail millet, simmer them over low heat until cooked, and eat for breakfast to benefit the heart and lungs. Take 1 sugarcane, peel it and extract the juice, cut 10 water chestnuts into small pieces, put them in a pot with an appropriate amount of water, and cook until the water chestnuts are done. Eat the water chestnuts and drink the soup to moisten the lungs, promote the production of body fluids, clear heat, and detoxify.
Reminder: Those with symptoms such as a cold stomach, vomiting, diarrhea, or excessive phlegm should temporarily avoid or eat less sugarcane so as not to aggravate their condition.