White radish is a common vegetable in daily life. Due to its crisp and delicious taste, various cooking methods, and rich nutrition, it is highly favored by people. So, can boiling white radish water treat cough? What are its effects? Let's take a look!
Can boiling white radish water treat cough?
In general, boiling white radish water can indeed treat cough. White radish has high nutritional value and excellent effects. Boiling it into water can relieve cold and cough. So, what kind of cough can boiling white radish water treat? Let's take a closer look!
1. White radish is a common vegetable and is considered by traditional Chinese medicine to have a pungent and sweet taste, cool nature, and enter the lung and stomach meridians. It is a good food therapy for treating or assisting in the treatment of various diseases. It can help regulate qi, transform phlegm, generate body fluids, stop cough, and also tonify the kidney, nourish qi, and relieve cough. Therefore, white radish has certain medicinal value in clinical practice.
2. Honey has a sweet taste, neutral nature, and alkaline properties. It has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, lubricating the intestines, detoxifying, and beautifying the skin. When combined, white radish and honey can be regarded as an excellent remedy for treating cough.
How to make white radish water for treating cough
Ingredients: White radish, honey, water.
Instructions:
1. Cut the radish into small pieces or shreds to allow better absorption of honey. You don't need too much radish, cutting 1/5 of a radish is enough.
2. Put it into a glass jar. If you don't have a suitable glass jar, you can use a baby bottle like I did.
3. Add honey until all the radish is in contact with it.
4. Cover the lid and let it sit. The radish will slowly release water under the action of honey.
5. After two hours, there will be more and more water in the bottle, and the radish will shrink. This is the honey radish water.
6. Pour out the honey radish water and add warm water for drinking. The remaining can be stored in the refrigerator. Drink three to four cups of this honey radish water every day, and the cough will significantly improve after one or two days. My baby stopped coughing completely after three days.
7. After drinking the honey radish water, the radish in it becomes crispy and sweet due to the addition of honey. You can eat it directly or sun-dry it into radish chips, which also make great snacks.
