White Radish with Peeled Peel Soup White Radish with Peeled Peel Soup has certain effects of strengthening the spleen, eliminating food and resolving phlegm, but both effects are limited when used as food.
White radish can eliminate foodstuffs, lowering qi, resolving phlegm, stopping bleeding, quenching thirst and inducing diuresis. It is often used in treating indigestion, food stagnation (accumulation of food in the stomach due to indigestion), flatulence, acid swallowing (swallowing of acid in the stomach up to the oropharynx), vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, phlegm-heat cough, dysphagia, coughing up blood, vomiting up blood, epistaxis, blood in the stools, thirst and gonorrhea.
Chenpi is the dried mature fruit peel of orange and its cultivated varieties in the family of Rutaceae. It is bitter, pungent and warm in nature. It belongs to lung and spleen meridians. It can regulate qi, strengthen the spleen, dry dampness and resolve phlegm (dispel dampness by drying dampness and dissolve phlegm). It is used for distention and fullness in the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen), scanty food and vomiting and diarrhea, and cough with excessive phlegm.
If feeling unwell, patients are advised to consult a doctor for timely treatment with medication under the doctor’s guidance.