Vitamin C in radish can help eliminate waste in the body and promote the metabolism of the body. Especially white radish or water radish, rich in enzymes, can promote digestion. Usually, enzymes can absorb starch in food, dissolve food accumulated in the stomach, have a good digestion effect and prevent stomach pain and gastric ulcer.
In the case of rich dishes, you can make a cabbage and radish soup, which is not only delicious, but also accelerates digestion, nourishing the stomach and warming the body. The method is simple. Wash Chinese cabbage, white radish, carrot and tofu, cut into strips of similar size, and blanch with boiling water for later use. Put the pot on the fire, add the right amount of oil and heat it to 50% heat, add the Chili sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour the clear soup, put the white radish, carrot and tofu into the pot together, add the Chinese cabbage after the fire is boiled, boil it again, add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste, and finally sprinkle with coriander powder to serve.
2. Radish sugar relieves sore throat
Radish contains a certain amount of mustard, which makes radish contain a natural spicy taste, and radish itself has anti-inflammatory function. For people with sore throat and stuffy nose caused by cold in winter, radish can be used to solve these annoying problems. You can shred the white radish and squeeze it into juice, prepare a piece of gauze, put the white radish juice on the gauze, or stick a cotton ball in the juice to plug your nostrils. Repeat this for 2 ~ 3 times, about 5 minutes each time, and the symptoms of nasal congestion will naturally be alleviated. People with sore throat can make some "radish candy" by themselves, cut the radish into small pieces, marinate it with appropriate amount of honey, and take it out after it floats in the honey. Every time I have a sore throat, I will get some relief.
3. Drink white radish leaf tea-beauty
You may not have heard that eating radishes can make you look good, but you may think, how many radishes do you need to eat to have a cosmetic effect? In fact, you don't need to eat much radish. You can make some radish leaf tea yourself, which not only enjoys the nutrition of radish, but also does not need to eat too much radish. White radish leaves are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and other vitamins, especially the content of vitamin C is more than 4 times that of roots. Vitamin C can prevent skin aging, prevent the formation of dark spots and keep skin white and tender. In addition, both vitamin A and vitamin C have antioxidant effects, which can effectively inhibit cancer and prevent aging and arteriosclerosis.
4. Stewed radish with rock sugar-relieving cough
500 grams of white radish, mashed to get juice, added with a little rock sugar, stewed and warmed twice a day, 60 ml each time, can be used to treat cough.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung is the "viscera" and the first viscera invaded by exogenous evil, which needs special care after winter. White radish is cool, sweet and pungent, belonging to lung and stomach meridians. It is especially suitable for patients with lung and stomach heat, sticky phlegm, flatulence and food stagnation, dyspepsia, and dysuria. If white radish wants to exert its greatest cough relieving effect, it should be matched with rock sugar. Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm and removing fire. When they are used together, they can achieve the functions of lowering qi, promoting digestion, resolving phlegm, moistening lung, harmonizing middle energizer, relieving cough, and facilitating urination and defecation. Therefore, the above prescription is effective for cough.
Need to remind everyone that although white radish has a good effect of moistening lung and relieving cough, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and loose stool to eat in large quantities because of its cool nature.