Chinese nutritional science believes that white radish boiled water to drink has a certain elimination of food, down the gas, phlegm effect.
White radish, also known as Lai Si, white radish, beetroot, rutabaga, is pungent, sweet and cool in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine meridians. White radish has certain effects of eliminating food, lowering qi, resolving phlegm, stopping bleeding, quenching thirst and diuretic.
White radish has the effect of eliminating food and lowering qi. Boiling water and drinking it can assist in relieving dietary stagnation, vomiting and acid swallowing (swallowing the acid in the stomach that rushes up to the oropharynx), and distension of the epigastrium (abdomen).
White radish has the effect of dissolving phlegm, boiling water can assist in relieving phlegm-heat cough. White radish is cool in nature, it can clear blood heat and stop bleeding, boiled water can assist in relieving gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, dripping and astringent pain) such as short and red urination (small amount of urination, dark yellow in color) and astringent pain.
White radish is a common food, food compared to drugs, medicinal effect is weak, generally not used in the treatment of disease, specific please follow the doctor’s instructions.