"Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and the old doctor prescribes it." This sentence fully illustrates the health value of radish. In fact, eating radish in summer is also good. Radish is a common vegetable and also a traditional Chinese medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine is radish, which is commonly used clinically to lower qi and resolve phlegm. Radish is not only cheap and delicious, but also has health-preserving effects.

White radish can promote digestion, increase appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal motility, reduce inflammation and relieve cough, detoxify, and prevent cancer. It can be used to treat cough due to lung heat, excessive phlegm, constipation, indigestion, etc.

Because white radish is cool in nature, people with weak and cold constitutions should not eat too much, otherwise they are prone to diarrhea and other adverse symptoms. It should also be noted that if you need to take ginseng, red ginseng, etc., you should not take them with radish.

Don’t eat too much at one time to avoid indigestion.

What are the functions of radish?

Radish is sweet, spicy, and cold, and enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxification, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, regulating qi and relieving depression, promoting fluid production and promoting wine, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and laxative. Indications Indigestion, cough with phlegm, sore throat, dry throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, headache and dizziness, etc. Research shows that radish has the following main functions.

1) Improve immunity and assist in preventing and fighting cancer: Radish is rich in vitamin C and trace element zinc, which helps to enhance the body’s immune function, improve disease resistance, and inhibit cancer to a certain extent. The growth of cancer cells is of great significance to preventing and fighting cancer.

2) Strengthen the stomach and digest food: Radish can eliminate qi stagnation and has the effect of relieving sleepiness. The mustard oil in radish can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase appetite, and help digestion; the amylase in radish can decompose starch and fat in food so that they can be fully absorbed.

3) Assist in anti-inflammation: Radish has strong Qi function, can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, remove dryness and promote fluid production, clear away heat and detoxify, and is beneficial for constipation. Radish has a partial inhibitory effect on Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Pneumococcus and Escherichia coli, and has certain curative effects on whooping cough, cough and acute and chronic respiratory diseases.