Turnip seeds are pungent in taste and neutral in nature.

Enter the liver and spleen meridians.

Improving eyesight, clearing away heat and removing dampness.

Cure blue blindness, dark eyes, jaundice, dysentery and difficulty in urination.

Li Shizhen said in "Compendium of Materia Medica": Jingjingzi can rise and fall, can sweat, vomit, and fall down. It can facilitate urination, improve eyesight, and detoxify. Its effects are very great.

Attached Recipe

1. For those with blue blindness and visual impairment, but the pupils are not bad: 6 liters of Jingjingzi, steam them all over, remove them from the steamer, and pour hot soup from the cauldron. Then, expose it to dryness and then drizzle it, do this 3 times, and then collect the pestle at the end.

With food, take seven-inch cups of sake, and then take it again every day ("Haihai Collection of Prescriptions").

2. Jaundice with golden skin, eyes, and red urine: powder of raw mangosteen seeds, mixed with cooked water, 3 times a day.

3. Difficulty urinating during pregnancy: Take powdered turnip seeds with 7 square inches of water, 3 times a day.

4. Rubella enters the abdomen, the body is strong, and the tongue is dry: 30 grams of turnip seeds are powdered, and 3 grams per serving is mixed with warm wine.

The use of turnip as medicine was first recorded in the "Famous Doctors" written by Tao Hongjing of Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, and it was listed as top grade.

"Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica" states that it lowers Qi, cures jaundice and facilitates urination.

The root is responsible for quenching thirst and treating wind and swelling due to heat. Boil it as a soup in the winter months, it can eliminate food, lower qi, and cure coughs. "Yinshan Zhengyao" also says that turnip can It warms the heart and replenishes qi, and relieves coldness and pain in the heart and abdomen.

"Yilin Zhuan Yao" states that it can benefit water and detoxify, lower Qi and relax the heart, and its functions are similar to those of radish.