As the saying goes, “If you eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, you don’t need a doctor’s prescription”. The white radish is a seasonal vegetable in winter and a good ingredient for health, and in ancient times there was also the saying: “When the radish is on the market, the doctor is off the market. But did you know? In fact, the efficacy of various kinds of radish is different, and must be consumed correctly to maximize its effectiveness. To play the role of radish lung, you have to first have to choose the right color of radish, white radish effect is the best; then you have to choose the right way to eat, raw food to play the maximum effectiveness of radish lung. Yuan dynasty Xu Younon said radish: “cooked sweet like taro, raw recommended crisp like pear, old disease eliminates stagnation, strange work worth the title of the product.” The first two sentences are about the different tastes of raw and cooked food, and the last two sentences are about their healing effects. Li Shizhen in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” made a more incisive summary: “raw food can stop cough, eliminate flatulence, cooked food can tonic gas and smooth gas.” White radish eaten raw to cure autumn cough Raw white radish to clear heat and moisten the lungs should not be used indiscriminately, it is best to deal with autumn dry cough which is mostly seen in autumn, other types of cough are not suitable. Autumn cough is mainly characterized by recurrent coughing, yellow phlegm, dry mouth, sore throat, constipation, red urine, body heat or wheezing, with a red tongue and thin yellow or yellow greasy coating. Chinese medicine considers the lungs to be a “delicate organ” and the first organ to be attacked by external evil, and since autumn is already dry, the lungs are more susceptible to attack and coughing. White radish cooked and eaten to replenish qi for colds There are especially many people who catch colds in autumn and winter, which is a manifestation of insufficient positive qi. It is necessary for people who love to catch a cold to strengthen the body’s positive energy, and white radish is just right for this purpose. But this is the time to cook and eat it. White radish anti-sense soup Ingredients: 150 grams of radish (3 taels), 3 sections of white onion (3 centimeters long), 15 grams of shiso. Directions: Boil the green onion segments, perilla leaves and white radish slices together in soup, which has the effect of dispersing cold and relieving cough, this soup can also prevent colds. Effect: This soup is suitable for wind-cold colds, the main symptoms of which are fear of cold, wind, little sweating, stuffy nose and cough with phlegm. Carrot, stomach and appetite The saying of carrot is quite familiar to everyone, when it comes to strengthening the spleen and helping digestion, the strongest role has to be played by carrot. The carrot is flat and sweet in nature and is considered by Chinese medicine to have the effect of strengthening the spleen, tonifying the blood and aiding digestion. The two main features of its nutrition are that it contains more sugar than the average vegetable and has an aromatic sweetness, and that it is rich in carotene and vitamin A. To play the role of carrot in strengthening the spleen and stomach and helping digestion, it is necessary to find two helpers for the carrot, namely chrysanthemum and lotus leaves. Chrysanthemum and lotus leaf are heat-clearing Chinese herbs, which are considered by Chinese medicine to be flat, bitter and astringent, and have been considered by medical books for generations to have the effects of “appetizing the stomach and eliminating food”, “helping the spleen and stomach”, and “quenching thirst and generating body fluid”. Red radish stomach soup Ingredients: 10 grams of chrysanthemum, 5 grams of dried lotus leaves, 250 grams of red radish, 500 grams of pork. Method: 1, chrysanthemum, lotus leaves slightly soaked, rinsed clean; carrot scraping, washing, cut into pieces. 2, pork washed, cut square-shaped, put the soup ingredients together into the stew pot, add cold boiling water 1250 ml (about 5 bowls), cover with water stew for about 3 hours. Note: when you drink the salt, this is the amount of 3-4 people. Green radish, eliminate fire There is another kind of radish that can help calm the spleen, which is the green radish. Chinese medicine believes that a person’s great temper is related to the liver. Green color enters the liver, and green radish is rich in vitamin C and dietary fiber, so it has an excellent effect in clearing heat and soothing the liver. Green radish and liver porridge Ingredients: 50 grams of fresh green radish, 50 grams of round-grained rice. How to do it: chop the fresh green radish and cook it with round-grained rice as porridge. This can be drunk every day, drink a period of liver depression well, temper will naturally be small.