Generally speaking, people can eat white radish when they take medicine for a cold. It is often said that eating white radish will solve the drug effect, so many people don't eat white radish when taking medicine. What needs to be explained here is that all people with deficiency-cold constitution need to be nourished by warm medicine, but white radish is cold and unfit for eating, and medicine and food balance cold and heat, so it is invalid. Generally, white radish can mainly solve traditional Chinese medicine.

White radish is a common vegetable, which can be eaten raw or cooked. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which has the functions of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Traditional Chinese medicine theory also believes that white radish is sweet and cool, and it enters the lung and stomach meridians. It is a good dietotherapy product and can treat or assist in the treatment of many diseases. Compendium of Materia Medica also calls white radish the top grade in the book, so it is common to take medicine for a cold.