As the saying goes, it is scientific to eat carrots in winter and pears in autumn. Winter is the best season to eat radish, which is closely related to the growing season of radish and the influence of climate on human body.
Radish, also known as radish, Luo Fu, Tu Su, Wen Yi and Qin Yi, is the hometown of radish in China and has a long history of cultivation and eating. As early as the Book of Songs, there were records about radish. Xu Youxiang of the Yuan Dynasty once praised radish: "Cooked food is sweet like taro, and raw recommendation is crisp like pear." Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty said: "It can be cooked, pickled, vinegar, sugar, wax and rice, which is the most beneficial among vegetables." There is a saying among the people that "eating radish and drinking tea makes doctors crawl all over the street". It can be seen that the benefits of radish to human health have been widely spread.
Radish can be used to make dishes, such as stir-frying, boiling and cold salad. It can also be eaten raw as fruit and tastes delicious; It can also be used as pickles and pickles, such as pickled radish head in Yangzhou and radish in Xiaoshan, all of which are local specialties.
Radish began to be used as a medicine in Liang Tao Hongjing's "Bielu of Famous Doctors" in the Southern Dynasties. It is cool and sweet, affecting the lung and stomach meridians, and can eliminate stagnation, eliminate phlegm and heat, penetrate the lower qi, and detoxify. It can be used for food accumulation, phlegm cough, aphonia, hematemesis, epistaxis, thirst quenching, dysentery, headache, dysuria and other symptoms.
It is found that radish contains 91.7% water, rich in vitamin C, a certain amount of calcium, phosphorus, carbohydrates and a small amount of protein, iron and other vitamins, and also contains beneficial components such as lignin, brain, choline, oxidase, glycerase, catalase, amylase and mustard oil. Practice has proved that radish has anti-cancer and anti-cancer functions. One of the reasons is that radish contains a lot of vitamins A and C, which are necessary substances to maintain the intercellular substance and play a role in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. Medical circles in the United States and Japan reported that vitamin A in radish can transform cancer cells that have been formed into normal cells again. The second reason is that radish contains a saccharifying enzyme, which can decompose nitrosamines in food, which can greatly reduce the carcinogenic effect of this substance; The third reason is that there is more lignin in radish, which can improve the vitality of giant cells swallowing cancer cells in the body by two to four times. Radish contains carotene, that is, provitamin A, which can promote the increase of heme and increase blood concentration. Radish contains mustard oil and crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote defecation. Medical research has found that eating radish often can reduce blood lipids, soften blood vessels, stabilize blood pressure, and prevent coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cholelithiasis and other diseases. Therefore, it is beneficial and harmless to human health to eat more radishes.
Then I recommend two radish diet dishes with the functions of benefiting lung and strengthening spleen, relieving cough and resolving phlegm for your reference:
First, almond radish pig lung soup
Ingredients: 250g pig lung, 20g radish and 9g almond.
Seasoning: 5g of salt, 5g of monosodium glutamate, 0g of cooking wine10g, a little onion and ginger slices, a little pepper, a little coriander, clear soup1500g, and a little aniseed pepper.
Method:
1. Wash pig lung and radish and cut into pieces, peel almond and cut coriander into pieces. Wrap the aniseed pepper.
2. Take a big casserole, put the radish block, put the pig lung on it, then put the almonds, add the onion and ginger slices, pepper and aniseed packets, add clear soup, cooking wine and salt, simmer on fire until it is cooked, then add monosodium glutamate, remove the onion and ginger slices and pepper aniseed packets, add a little pepper and sprinkle with parsley segments.
Efficacy: tonifying lung and relieving cough, widening chest and resolving phlegm.
Second, radish soup with dried shrimps and vermicelli
Ingredients: 80g of shrimp skin, 80g of vermicelli and 200g of radish.
Seasoning: 6g of salt, 0g of cooking wine10g, 5g of monosodium glutamate, 20g of peanut oil, a little shredded onion and ginger, a little pepper, a little coriander and 800g of chicken soup.
Method:
1. First, wash the radish and cut it into shreds, blanch the vermicelli with boiling water until cooked, and cut the parsley into sections.
2. Put the oil in the spoon and heat it, then use shredded onion and ginger to stir-fry the shrimp skin for a few times, then add shredded radish and stir-fry for a few times. Add chicken soup, add vermicelli, boil, remove foam, add salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate and pepper, and sprinkle with parsley.
Efficacy: nourishing and strengthening, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, and supplementing calcium along with qi.
Taboos for eating radishes: There are many kinds of radishes. It is better to eat raw radishes with more juice and less spicy taste, and cooked food is better for those who don't like cold food at ordinary times. Radish is a cold vegetable, and it is not suitable for those with yin excess and cold quality, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis, simple goiter, threatened abortion, uterine prolapse, etc. should not eat radish. Radish is strictly forbidden to eat with oranges, because eating at the same time is prone to goiter.