Alternative treatments for chronic bronchitis

Malt sugar is also known as soft sugar, malt, malt candy, malt sugar, scientific name is maltum.

In Oriental medicine, it is called di duong or giao di, which is derived from cereals and is created through a biological fermentation process, hydrolyzing starch into sugar.

Since ancient times, people have known how to make candy from sticky rice and rice germ to use as ingredients in making confectionery and used as medicine. In Vietnam, because we do not have barley, we still use rice seeds (oryza sativa l. Var. Utilissima of the same family) to soak until they germinate and then dry them, called coc nha. Recently, we have imported barley seeds to grow to make beer, but it is not enough for use.

Oriental medicine considers di duong a precious medicine and calls the medicine di duong. It is believed that di duong has a sweet taste and warm properties that enter the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians. Its functions include replenishing the middle qi, replenishing the spleen, moistening the lungs, regulating the stomach and harmonizing the middle, stabilizing the fetus, relieving pain, replenishing deficiency, generating body fluids, stopping coughs, and moistening the bowels.

Used in cases of body weakness, pain due to gastric and duodenal ulcers, bronchitis, dry cough with sticky phlegm, constipation (due to its lower sweetness than sucrose and glucose, easy to digest). In addition, it also has the effect of detoxifying Aconite, Aconite, etc.

Note: People with low heat, indigestion, and vomiting should not use this product. Below are some ways to treat diseases from the digestive tract.

* Treats weak body, fatigue, poor appetite, cold hands and feet, pale, and blood deficiency: Use a formula including 10g of rehmannia glutinosa, 16g of ginger, 8g of codonopsis pilosula, and 60g of di duong. Boil the first 3 ingredients to get the medicinal liquid, then mix in di duong and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 2-3 times, for 7-10 consecutive days.

* Treatment of yang deficiency and yin cold excess: Symptoms include cold and painful chest, loss of appetite, headache or dull abdominal pain due to cold accumulation, smooth white tongue coating, thin pulse or cold limbs, weak pulse or rumbling stomach and loose stools, caused by cold and damp accumulation inside.

The treatment is to warm the middle, replenish deficiency, dispel rebelliousness, and relieve pain.

Use "Dai Kien Trung Thang" including 12g of cooked pepper, 16g of ginger, 8g of ginseng, and 80g of di duong. Boil and drink 1 dose per day. Divide into 3 times.

* Treatment of weakness, acute illness, abdominal pain: Symptoms of liking hot compresses or yang deficiency causing heat causing abdominal pain or chest pain.

Treatment must warm the middle, replenish the Qi, harmonize the body, and relieve pain.

Use the "Astragalus membranaceus decoction" including 24g peony root, 12g cinnamon, 12g ginger, 4g licorice, 12g jujube, 80g di duong, 10g astragalus. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times.

* Used for cases of abdominal pain threatening miscarriage: Use "Di duong sa nhan thang" including 20g of di duong (malt), 1 - 2g of sa nhan. Steep or boil sa nhan, dissolve sugar in sa nhan water; give orally...

* Used for cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, chronic bronchitis, long-term dry cough, patients with pain due to gastric and duodenal ulcers: "Chicken stewed with di duong thuc dia": 1 hen, di duong (malt) 150g, rehmannia 50g. Clean the chicken, remove the intestines, put malt and rehmannia into the chicken, add a little seasoning and simmer. Divide into several meals a day.

* For cases of whooping cough, long-term cough due to chronic bronchitis... use "beet juice": 1 bowl of white radish juice, 15 - 20g of malt. Mix the juice with malt, boil until dissolved, then drink.

* Treating women after giving birth, weak and insufficient people: Symptoms of weak eight meridians, dull abdominal pain, lack of energy or acute lower abdominal pain radiating to the back, unable to eat or drink.

Treatment must warm the middle, replenish blood deficiency, harmonize the body and relieve pain.

Use the "Dang Quy Kien Trung Thang" recipe including 12g of Dang Quy, 24g of peony, 12g of cinnamon, 12g of ginger, 4g of licorice, 12g of jujube, and 80g of di Duong. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times, drink warm before meals.

* Treatment of tuberculosis: Symptoms include abdominal pain that likes to be rubbed or warmed with a warm compress, pale tongue, thin pulse or weak, restless heart, hot palms and soles, numbness and fatigue.
Use the "Xiao Jian Zhong Tang" recipe, including 12g of white peony, 6g of cinnamon, 4g of fresh ginger, 4g of licorice, 12g of jujube, 40g of di duong, boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times...

According to Dr. Hoang Tuan Linh - Vietnam Agriculture - nt