1, what is a radish?
Simply put, radish seed is a functional Chinese medicine in the plant kingdom. Radish seeds grown in plants need to be picked and harvested by human beings before they can be extracted as the final useful Chinese medicine. Radish seeds are generally round or oval, slightly flat, with a yellowish brown, reddish brown or grayish brown surface, and are relatively small in size, somewhat like beans and small stones. The radish seed is tasteless, tasteless and slightly bitter, and has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, constipation, diarrhea, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Many people will buy radish seed decoction to improve their physical function.
2. The efficacy of radish seeds
(1) Antibacterial and detoxifying
Everyone will contain invisible bacteria and toxins, leading to the emergence of diseases. Radish seed contains a component called radish element, which has a significant inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus secretory Escherichia coli and can affect the germination of many plant seeds. Radicin has obvious detoxification effect after being mixed with bacterial exotoxin in vitro, and the skin necrosis effect of diphtheria toxin can be reduced when diluted to 1: 1600.
(2) promoting the intestines and stomach
Some people are particularly picky about food, because eating indiscriminately can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Using radish seeds as processed products can increase the contraction amplitude of isolated rabbit intestine, resist the inhibitory effect of adrenaline on intestine, and increase the tension and contraction amplitude of gastric pyloric ring muscle. All three preparations have inhibitory effects on gastric emptying in mice, enhance the resistance of the stomach and effectively promote the normal activity of the stomach.
(3) Treating constipation
People with gastrointestinal discomfort are also prone to constipation, especially the elderly. The physical function of the elderly will be relatively inflexible. If it is serious, it will be difficult to urinate. If taking radish seeds can help digestion, promote qi circulation and relieve constipation, then you can improve constipation by frying radish seeds.
(4) lowering blood pressure
Radish seed also has a special injection, which can effectively reduce the pulmonary and systemic arterial pressure, and the intensity is basically the same as that of phentolamine, especially for people with hypertension. Continuous intravenous injection can inhibit pulmonary hypertension caused by acute hypoxia and reduce the side effects of lowering systemic arterial pressure.
(5) relieving cough and resolving phlegm
It can treat the increase of serum cholesterol and prevent coronary atherosclerosis, suggesting that it may also play a role in the treatment of coronary heart disease.
3. Side effects of radish seeds
1. People with qi deficiency are not suitable for taking radish seeds. If people with qi deficiency take radish seeds, it will easily affect the functional problems of digestive system, and in severe cases, it will lead to stomach pain and discomfort, which is a side effect of radish seeds.
2. It is not advisable to take too much. Proper and targeted use of radish seeds can give full play to the medicinal value of radish seeds and be beneficial to health. However, if excessive gas is used for a long time, radish seeds will bring out slight toxicity, thus affecting the function of body organs. Only by paying more attention to the pharmacological effects of drugs in the process of taking can we give full play to the original functions of medicinal materials.
4. Dietary taboos
1, people with qi deficiency, no food stagnation, phlegm and blood stasis should eat radish seeds carefully, and those in loose stool should not eat radish seeds;
2. Ginseng and radish seeds can't be used together.
3. Radish can reduce qi and eliminate phlegm, and ginseng can replenish vitality. If they are taken together, the qi-lowering effect of radish will weaken the qi-invigorating effect of ginseng. Radish and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. And rehmannia glutinosa. It is easy to cause a rash.