White radish is a seasonal vegetable in winter and a good ingredient for health preservation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung is a "delicate dirty", and it is the first place where exogenous pathogens attack, so it needs special care after beginning of winter. White radish is cool, sweet and pungent, belonging to lung and stomach meridians. It is especially suitable for people with lung and stomach heat, excessive phlegm, flatulence and food stagnation, dyspepsia and poor urination and defecation.

In eating, it has two best partners: if you think of the effect of relieving cough, mix white radish with rock sugar to achieve the effect of resolving phlegm and moistening lung and relieving cough in the middle; If you want to suppress the symptoms of dry throat and pain, you can take white radish and green fruit and drink them as tea, which can alleviate the sore throat caused by lung and stomach heat.

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Boiling white radish can also relieve cough and resolve phlegm. When necessary, fresh white radish can be washed and cut into pieces, then put into a soup pot and boiled with appropriate amount of water. After boiling, cook for about half an hour. Take out the radish slices inside and drink them directly when the radish water is cold. Drinking them every night before going to bed has the most obvious effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

When boiled, white radish can relieve cough and resolve phlegm. When necessary, fresh white radish can be washed, cut into thick strips, and then roasted on charcoal fire. Bake until the surface is yellow and the inside is cooked, and eat directly while it is hot. After eating for 3 to 5 days, the symptoms of cough and expectoration can be obviously alleviated.

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People's Network-Eating white radish can relieve cough and resolve phlegm.