The medicinal value of white radish

White radish is a common vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked. Its taste is slightly spicy. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which can promote digestion, enhance appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieve cough and reduce phlegm. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine also believes that it tastes pungent and sweet, has a cool nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridian. It is a good food therapy product and can treat or assist in the treatment of many diseases. The Compendium of Materia Medica calls it "the most beneficial among vegetables." Therefore, white radish has certain medicinal value in clinical practice.

1. Digestion: For food accumulation, bloating, indigestion, and poor appetite, you can drink raw juice; for nausea and vomiting, general vomiting of sour water, and chronic dysentery, you can chop it into pieces, boil it with honey, and chew it carefully. ; For constipation, you can cook; for oral ulcers, you can make juice and rinse your mouth.

2. For respiratory cough and phlegm, it is best to chop it into honey, decoct it and chew it carefully; for pharyngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness and aphonia, you can pound the juice and take it with ginger juice; for nose bleeding, you can Take raw mashed juice with a little wine and drink it hot, or you can pound the juice and drip it into your nose; for hemoptysis, cook it with mutton and crucian carp; to prevent colds, you can cook it.

3. For various urinary tract stones and poor urination, you can use sliced ??honey and roast them orally; for all kinds of edema, you can use a decoction of radish and floating wheat.

4. For other aspects of beauty, it can be cooked; for beriberi, it can be decoctioned and washed; for detoxification, hangover or gas poisoning, it can be used, or the leaves can be decoctioned and drank; for joint relief, it can be boiled .

5. Eating raw white radish can promote digestion. In addition to aiding digestion, it also has a strong anti-inflammatory effect, and its spicy ingredients can promote gastric juice secretion and adjust gastrointestinal function. In addition, white radish juice also has a cough-relieving effect. Pour half a cup of sugar water into a glass bottle, then fill the bottle with shredded radish, and leave it overnight to have radish juice.

Of course, it should be reminded that white radish is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, such as those with loose stools, and their use should be reduced. It is also worth noting that you should not eat this product when taking ginseng tonics to avoid affect the efficacy.