Harvesting and processing: Harvesting in autumn and winter, removing leaves and roots, and fresh use.
Medicinal parts: stem
Origin: Various regions in southern China
Family: Poaceae
Original plant: sugarcane
Sugarcane medicinal properties:
[Preparation]
1. Purification: Remove roots, leaves, and stem tips, wash thoroughly, scrape off external wax powder, epidermis, and buds.
2. Cutting: Grind, cut into small sections, pieces, raw food (chew) or mash.
【 Taste 】 Sweet; cold
[Guijing] Lung; Spleen; Stomach meridian
【 Indications 】 Clearing heat and generating fluids; Moisturize and moderate; Detoxification. Main annoyance heat; Quench thirst; Nausea and nausea; Deficiency heat cough; Dry stool; Carbuncle and ulcer swelling
[Usage and dosage] Internal use: Sugar cane juice, 30-90g; Or juiced drinks. For external use: appropriate amount, massage and apply.
【 Attention 】 People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should take it with caution.
【 Appendix 】 Sugar cane and rice soup "Shan Jia Qing Gong": Excessive drinking and eating. Sugar cane ginger juice "Mei Shi Ji Yan Fang": treating nausea.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Gangmu": Sugar cane is the fruit of the spleen. Its pulp is sweet and cold, and it can relieve heat. When boiled and refined into sugar, it is sweet and warm, and helps with dampness and heat, which is called accumulating heat to form heat. Sugar cane slurry for quenching thirst and alcohol has been known since ancient times, and Meng Qiao said that those who drink and eat together and produce phlegm do not know that it has the function of relieving alcohol and heat. The book "Rihuazi" also states that sand sugar can detoxify alcohol, but it is unknown that after being refined, it can help turn wine into heat, which is different from the nature of raw wine.
2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Sugarcane, for the purpose of cultivation, its taste first enters the spleen, so it can help the temperament. The spleen governs the central region, therefore it governs harmony. Gan Han removes heat and moistens dryness, thus promoting the circulation of qi and benefiting the large intestine. The Great Ming Dynasty states that it can relieve phlegm, quench thirst, relieve heart and mind restlessness, and detoxify alcohol. Nowadays, it is used to treat choking, nausea, vomiting, and constipation, all of which have the functions of removing heat, generating fluids, and moistening dryness.
3. "Yuqiao Medicinal Solution": Sugar cane slurry is most suitable for those who relieve alcohol, clear the lungs, and have dry soil. For those with weakened yang and excessive dampness, taking it can also benefit the middle and lower levels of coldness. The "Materia Medica" states that its lower qi can stop vomiting, although it is sweet and gentle, it is also quite refreshing and not blocked, similar to the calming effect of white sand sugar.
4. "Gangmu Shiyi": Huang Hairuo said that for those who do not have acne rashes, do not have stuffy acne, and have excessive and swollen toxins, this acne is considered an emergency. It is recommended to juice and eat green skinned sugarcane from time to time, and if it frequently enters, the acne will stand up. Its cold dispersing and detoxifying effects are better than those of earthworms and white doves. Unfortunately, people do not know its function.
5. "Bielu": Master the balance of qi and middle, assist the spleen and stomach, and benefit the large intestine.
6. "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": It mainly replenishes qi and also reduces qi.
7. "Rihuazi Bencao": Beneficial to the large and small intestine, relieves diarrhea, tonifies the spleen, relieves phlegm and thirst, and relieves restlessness and heat.
8. Daily Materia Medica: Relieve deficiency, heat, irritability, thirst, and relieve alcohol and toxins.
9. "Dian Nan Ben Cao": Treat various types of sores caused by various toxins, carbuncles and mallets on the back, crush and apply; Juice: Treat mental confusion, unstable spirit, stroke and loss of voice, rinse water. Boiling and eating again is better for the stomach.
10. "Explanation of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": When taken with ginger juice, it can relieve pufferfish toxicity.
11. "Bencao Zaixin": Clearing fire in the middle, calming the liver and spleen, generating fluids and quenching thirst, treating vomiting, malaria, dysentery, and relieving various toxins of sores and fire.
12. "Sui Xi Ju Diet Guide": It benefits the throat, strengthens the muscles and bones, soothes the wind and nourishes the blood, and greatly tonifies the spleen and yin. "