Mao Niulai is also known as radish.

(1) Efficacy and Indications

Reducing Qi to relieve asthma, digestion and phlegm. Cure cough with phlegm and asthma, qi stagnation due to food accumulation, chest tightness and abdominal distension, and severe diarrhea.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Grind with water and take it for vomiting wind and phlegm; grind with vinegar to reduce swelling and poison."

"Daily Materia Medica": "Cure jaundice and yellow eyes. Like golden color, the water is hot and red. "

"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "The lower Qi is wide and moderate, relieves swelling, lowers phlegm, calms wheezing and asthma, attacks gastrointestinal stagnation, and treats lumps and single abdominal pain. "

"Compendium": "It can relieve asthma, cure phlegm, eliminate food, relieve swelling, facilitate urination and defecation, relieve gas pain, severe diarrhea and sores."

"Yilin Zhuan Yao": "For raw use, it can expel wind and phlegm, widen the chest and diaphragm, and support sores and rashes; for thermal use, it can lower the Qi and eliminate phlegm, attack hard accumulation, and cause severe complications after treatment."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" "New": "Resolves phlegm and removes wind, dissipates evil and induces sweating."

"Suixiju Diet Manual": "Cures phlegm and cough, wheezing, qi bulging, head wind, drowning and obstruction, and misuse of supplements "

Digestion and accumulation. The stomach is the sea of ??water and grain, "the official of the barn". The Lord accepts it and ripens the water and grain. To smooth the stomach is to clear the stomach, and clearing the stomach means to reduce turbidity. Reducing turbidity is a prerequisite for acceptance. Therefore, stomach dysfunction can not only affect appetite, but also cause bad breath, abdominal distension, pain, and constipation due to the turbid gas in it. For example, "Suwen·Yin and Yang Yingxiang Dalun" says: "If the turbid qi is above, the stomach will be bloated." If the stomach qi not only fails to pass down, but also causes the stomach qi to rise and reverse, then sourness, nausea, and vomiting may occur. Vomiting, hiccups and other symptoms.

Reducing qi and calming asthma, used for qi inversion and asthma. The lungs are the masters of Qi. "Suwen·Generation of the Five Internal Organs" says: "All qi belong to the lungs." The lungs are responsible for breathing and are the hub for the movement of qi into and out of the lungs. Their function of spreading and suppressing makes the airways smooth and the breathing even. The lungs are connected with the skin on the outside and the five internal organs on the inside. They go towards the meridians and lead to other internal organs. The lungs are delicate organs that cannot withstand the invasion of evil spirits. If external evils invade, or the qi from diseases in other organs invades, the lungs will lose their ability to circulate and descend, causing the lung qi to become swollen and obstruct the airways, causing the qi to flow backwards, leading to asthma syndrome. Symptoms include: rough breathing and high voice, opening the mouth and raising the shoulders, shaking the body and picking up the belly, and severe cases such as being unable to lie down. The asthma syndrome can be divided into two categories: real asthma and deficient asthma. Those with evil are considered to be true, because the evil is blocked in the lungs, and Xuanjiang loses control. Those without evil are considered to be deficient, because the lungs do not control qi and the kidneys do not accept qi. To treat excess asthma, the main focus is to dispel pathogenic factors and promote qi; to treat deficiency asthma, the main focus is to nourish, nourish, and absorb. Radish seed is good at benefiting Qi, its taste is sweet and can be tonic, its nature is neutral, it can benefit Qi without damaging Qi, so it can be used for both actual asthma and deficient asthma. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "The effect of Rapeseed Seed is better than benefiting Qi... lowering Qi and calming asthma." In ancient medical prescriptions, Rapeseed Seed is often used in conjunction with other medicines to treat asthma symptoms. The effect is very good.

Reducing phlegm and relieving cough, used for syndromes of wind-phlegm, asthma and cough. Wind and cold attack the lungs, causing the lungs to lose their circulation; the spleen is not functioning well, and dampness accumulates to form phlegm, causing phlegm to block the airway. With the inverse qi, phlegm can be heard, wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, and phlegm. It is often sticky and white in color, and is accompanied by nausea, less food, sticky mouth and no thirst, thick and greasy coating, and slippery pulse. Treatment should be to resolve phlegm and lower qi. Radish seeds are true to their purpose. Its properties are beneficial to qi and phlegm, helping to eliminate food and remove phlegm. Dampness and phlegm are eliminated, asthma subsides, and all symptoms heal spontaneously. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "Rapid Seed cures phlegm and has the ability to push down walls." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Rapid Seed... can rise when raw, and can fall when cooked. Those who rise will spit out wind and phlegm and disperse wind and cold." , lowering it will relieve phlegm, asthma and cough..."