Radish is a highly nutritious vegetable, also known as "little ginseng". It has a sweet and spicy taste and a cool nature, entering the liver, stomach, lungs, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and generating fluids, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, relieving Qi and regulating the middle, promoting digestion and relieving stagnation, and appetizing and invigorating the spleen. However, there are several types of people who need to be cautious when eating radishes. Let's take a look together!
Benefits of Eating Radish
1. Preventing and Fighting Cancer
Radish contains lignin, which can enhance the vitality of macrophages and engulf cancer cells. In addition, the various enzymes contained in radishes can decompose carcinogenic nitrosamines and have anti-cancer effects.
2. Skincare and Anti-aging
Radishes contain rich vitamins A and C, especially the content of vitamin C is more than 4 times that of the roots. Vitamin C can prevent skin aging, prevent the formation of black spots, and maintain fair and tender skin.
3. Fitness and Disease Prevention
Radishes contain mustard oil, amylase, and dietary fiber, which can promote digestion, increase appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and relieve coughs and phlegm. Traditional Chinese medicine theory also believes that radishes have a pungent and sweet taste, cool nature, and enter the lung and stomach meridians. They are excellent dietary therapy for treating or adjuvant treatment of various diseases, and are called "the most beneficial vegetable" in the Compendium of Materia Medica.
4. Colon Cleansing and Detoxification
In addition to vitamins, radishes are also rich in dietary fiber, especially the plant fiber in the leaves. These plant fibers can promote intestinal peristalsis, eliminate constipation, and detoxify the body, thereby improving rough skin, acne, and other conditions.
Two Types of People Who Should Not Eat Radishes
1. People with Qi Deficiency
People with Qi deficiency should not eat radishes. Radishes are cool in nature and have the effect of promoting Qi circulation. Eating radishes will consume Qi and disperse Qi, aggravating the symptoms of Qi deficiency.
2. People with Diarrhea
People with diarrhea should not eat radishes. Radishes have the functions of promoting Qi circulation and ventilation, and can help digestion. However, radishes are cool in nature. If there is diarrhea, you should be cautious about eating radishes to avoid worsening the condition and symptoms.
Dietary Therapy Value of Radishes
1. Treating Hypertension
750 grams of radishes, 500 grams of water chestnuts, 50 milliliters of honey. Crush the first two ingredients, squeeze the juice in a sterilized gauze, remove the residue, and add honey. Take it 2-3 times a day.
2. Treating Asthma
150 grams of radishes, 50 grams of water chestnuts, 75 grams of pig lungs. Cut the radishes into pieces, slice the water chestnuts and pig lungs. Cook them together with water and seasonings, and then consume.
3. Treating Influenza
250 grams of radishes, rice vinegar as needed.
4. Treating Pediatric Pneumonia
100 grams of radishes, 30 grams of olives, 50 grams of glutinous rice. Wash the olives with water and remove the pits. Then wash the radishes and slice them. Cook the radishes and glutinous rice together to make porridge. Let it cool down before consuming.
