The health value of white radish

White radish is a common vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked with a slightly pungent taste. Modern research suggests that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which can promote digestion, enhance appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis and stop coughing and resolve phlegm. Chinese medical theory also believes that it is pungent and sweet, cool in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridian, is a good food therapy, can treat or assist in the treatment of a variety of diseases, the compendium of materia medica called “the most favorable among vegetables”. Therefore, white radish has certain medicinal value in clinical practice. First, digestion: food accumulation and bloating, indigestion, poor appetite, can be pounded raw juice to drink; nausea and vomiting, vomiting acid, chronic dysentery, can be chopped honey decoction chewed carefully; constipation, can be cooked; mouth ulcers, can be pounded juice gargle. For cough and phlegm, it is best to chew and swallow with chopped honey; for laryngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness and loss of voice, it can be pounded and taken with ginger juice; for nosebleed, it can be taken with a little wine and hot juice, or pounded and taken as nose drops; for hemoptysis, it can be cooked and eaten with mutton and carp; for cold prevention, it can be cooked. Third, urinary system aspects of various urinary stones, urination is not smooth, can be sliced honey roast oral; various swelling, available radish and floating wheat decoction to take. Fourth, other aspects of beauty, can be cooked; foot disease, decoction of external washing; detoxification, detoxification of alcohol or gas poisoning, available, or leaf decoction soup drinking juice; Tongli joint, can be cooked. Fifth, white radish raw can promote digestion, in addition to help digestion, there is a strong anti-inflammatory effect, and its spicy ingredients can promote gastric juice secretion, adjust the gastrointestinal function. In addition, white radish juice has a cough suppressant effect. Pour half a cup of sugar water in a glass bottle, then place the shredded white radish full in the bottle and put it for one night to have white radish juice. Of course, it should be reminded that white radish is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, such as those with thin stools, should reduce the use, and it is also worth noting that this product is contraindicated when taking ginseng tonic medicine, so as not to affect the efficacy of the treatment.