December 7, this year’s snow festival is coming, every time we see this page of the calendar, the snow pressure branches, the silver dress becomes our emotional infinite hope. In fact, the fact of climate change is not so. From this day onwards, the weather is getting colder and colder, the gloom is getting heavier, the air is getting drier and drier, and the precipitation will gradually decrease. A pleasant state of mind, a warm diet, adequate sleep, and moderate exercise in the sun are the tenets of health care in this section. The clichéd winter tonic is the right time. Nowadays, the public is more conscious of “tonic”, but they do not know that “through” is the key to health. In the clinic, I often encounter patients with dizziness, back pain, fatigue and depression, but without any organic lesions, the most frequent question they ask me is “Am I too weak?” Actually, it is not. The so-called “Tong” in Chinese medicine is not only the smooth flow of the intestines, but also the smooth flow of Qi, blood and meridians. Qi stagnation and blood stasis, meridian obstruction will also lead to the above symptoms. So how to achieve “through” this season? As the saying goes, “Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, don’t need a doctor’s prescription”. In the first chapter of “The First Method of Identifying the Pulse”, there is a passage in the “Treatise on Typhoid”: “?????? In November, Yang Qi is inside, the stomach is hot and bothered, with Yin Qi inside weak, can not win the heat, so want to bare their bodies.” The above passage means that by the time the entire winter months of Hai, Zi and Ugly come around, Yang Qi is inward and inward, in the tendency to collect. Therefore, at this time, the yang outside is gradually less and less, and the yang inside is gradually more and more, and the yang is hot, so it is said that “the yang is inside, and the stomach is hot and bothered”. Since this is the case, the seasonal radish comes in handy. Radish is cool, pungent and sweet, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It is effective in eliminating stagnation, resolving phlegm and clearing heat, relieving gas and relieving toxins. Raw food can help digestion, stomach and appetite, increase appetite, eat meat and other greasy food after eating raw radish can be relieved of greasy mouth to make the stomach and abdomen comfortable, eat raw radish or chew salty radish can eliminate food and smooth gas when over-eating sweet potato stomach acid bloating full of heartburn. Radish contains more dietary fiber, which can increase the volume of feces, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, keep the bowel movement smooth, so that the body is less likely to absorb toxic and carcinogenic substances in the waste, and prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer. Modern medicine verifies that radish also has cancer prevention function. The reason is that the radish contains a variety of enzymes that can break down carcinogenic nitrosamines, plus the lignin contained can improve the vitality of macrophages, thus engulfing cancer cells, so that the radish has the function of “cancer”. But it is worth mentioning that people are used to peeling off the skin of radish when they eat it, not knowing that the concentration of nutrients in the skin of radish is very high, such as 98% of calcium in radish in the skin of radish, eating radish with skin is a good choice for calcium. In addition, the radish skin is also rich in vitamin K, this vitamin can resist blood clotting, effective prevention and control of gout, the benefit of joints. Therefore, radish is best eaten with its skin. Since ancient times, folk have often used radish to cure diseases. When the joint soreness with soaked radish juice wet cloth cold compress, face acne, with radish juice, will be effective. Radish peel, pear peel, fresh ginger 10 grams each boiled water to drink as tea, can regulate gas and phlegm, cough phlegm. These healing effects of radish are recorded in Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica”. Although radish is good, it should be eaten with some attention. As the radish taste pungent and sweet, cold, so the spleen and stomach cold, eating does not transform, or weak body should eat less; radish broken gas, serving ginseng, raw and cooked earth, He Shou Wu and other tonic do not eat, otherwise it will affect the effectiveness of the medicine. In addition, because the consumption of raw radish produces more gas, it is also not good for ulcer disease, so patients with such diseases should eat less radish.