Radish belongs to the cool nature.

Radish flavor: cool, sweet, pungent, belonging to the lung, stomach, large intestine meridian.

White radish nutritional benefits?

1, promote digestion?

White radish is rich in mustard oil, amylase, crude fiber and a variety of carbohydrates, amino acids, etc., can promote gastrointestinal digestion, dyspepsia, mouth ulcers, nausea and vomiting also have a good effect. According to Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine liver disease specialist chief physician Professor Chi Xiaoling, often eat radish can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so that the human body to reduce the absorption of toxic and carcinogenic substances, to prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer, but also to prevent constipation.

2, prevent aging?

White radish is rich in vitamin C, for the skin talent, melanin pigmentation resistance, have a good effect. And white radish in the vitamin A and vitamin C, more effective antioxidant, play a role in preventing atherosclerosis, cancer prevention.

Extended information:

The people who should not eat radish:

1, qi deficiency weakness

Qi deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine theory is the human body yuan qi insufficiency caused by a variety of pathological changes. As the white radish is cool and sweet in nature, it has the effect of moving qi, which will only aggravate the symptoms of qi deficiency for qi deficiency patients who need to replenish qi and blood.

2, diarrhea patients

White radish can move gas, promote digestion, but if it is a diarrhea patients eat, will only aggravate the symptoms of gastrointestinal diarrhea.

3, Yang deficiency constipation

Yang deficiency is generally reflected in the limbs cold, is a human pathology. Such patients should also not eat white radish, in order to prevent aggravation of the symptoms.

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