Li Shizhen, a medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty, once praised radish as "raw and cooked, minced and sauced, black bean and vinegar, and rice", which is "the most beneficial of vegetables". Indeed, in addition to being a popular vegetable that people like to eat, the medicinal value of radish is even more impressive.
According to Chinese medicine, radish is flat and slightly cold, has the function of clearing heat and detoxification, stomach, phlegm and cough, smooth gas and diuretic, and quench thirst. Modern research proves that the glycolytic enzymes and mustard oil contained in radish are beneficial to human digestive function.
Radish seeds are also commonly used in Chinese medicine and have good antihypertensive effects. Radish tassels, which can eliminate food and regulate qi, can be gargled in decoction to treat sore throat. The old radish that grows in the ground, known as "Di Kuk Wreck", is a good diuretic and anti-swelling, and is effective in treating chest and diaphragm congestion, edema and dysentery.
Effects and functions of radish
1 White radish can treat digestive tract diseasesIt can be pounded raw to drink when it is used for food accumulation and bloating, indigestion and poor appetite; for nausea and vomiting, vomiting and chronic dysentery, it can be chopped and chewed with honey; for constipation, it can be boiled; for mouth ulcer, it can be pounded and gargled.
2The effect of white radish on the respiratory systemFor cough and phlegm, it is better to chew and swallow finely with chopped honey; for laryngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness and loss of voice, it can be pounded and taken with ginger juice; for nosebleed, it can be taken hot with a little wine or pounded and taken as nose drops; for hemoptysis, it can be cooked and eaten with mutton and carp; for cold prevention, it can be cooked.
3Effects of white radish on urinary systemVarious urinary stones, urination is not smooth, can be sliced and honey roasted orally; all kinds of swelling, can be taken with radish and floating wheat decoction.
4 Other effects of white radishBeauty, can be cooked; foot disease, decoction for external washing; detoxification, detoxification of alcohol or gas poisoning, can be used, or leaf decoction for drinking juice; Tongli joint, can be cooked.
Radish is one of the ancient vegetables in China, known as "immortal bone" in ancient times, with the effect of quenching thirst and quenching wine, dispersing blood stasis, lowering blood pressure and negatively dissolving phlegm.
Radish is a treasure all over
Radish leaf: pungent, bitter, flat, with the same effect as radish, treating the symptoms of stuffiness in the abdomen and stomach, accumulation of food that does not disappear, phlegm, and lactation.
Radish seeds: with antifungal and interfere with the role of thyroxine synthesis.
Radish peel: grams to treat blood in the colon and stop headache.
Radish old root: (Chinese medicine called ground skeleton) made by sun-drying, into medicine with radish, can benefit water, used for swelling and other diseases.
Medicinal and therapeutic use
(1) Clear the lungs to stop cough, moisten dryness and resolve phlegm: 300 ml of white radish juice, 15 grams of caramelized sugar, steamed and swallowed slowly while hot. Mostly used for the elderly and children with cough.
(2) Burns and detoxification of fever: 1000 grams of radish, 500 grams of mutton, boil soup, eat the meat and drink the soup.
(3) Whooping cough: 1. 250 grams of white radish, 6 grams of olives, chopped and decocted in water, taken twice a day for several days. 2. 500 grams of white radish, 10 grams of olives, squeeze juice with a juicer and drink.
(4) Influenza: 250 grams of white radish, add 500 milliliters of water, decoction with sugar, drink while hot.
(5) burns, fire injuries: white radish juice coated with the affected area. Such as smoke burns coma, turnip juice instilled that su.
