Radish is a "good medicine" in the vegetable basket. It can be eaten raw, fried, mixed and pickled with sugar. This is the best vegetable. Radishes are all treasures. Radish leaves and seeds are called radish leaves and radish seeds in medical books. They are medicines for promoting digestion, regulating qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing away lung heat and relieving sore throat, removing blood stasis and reducing swelling.

as the proverb goes

"Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription."

Then eat more radishes in winter

Does it make sense?

In winter, when the weather is cold, "the sun's spirit overflows and the outside loses", people's activities are reduced, and they are not easy to sweat and dissipate heat. They like to eat spicy and warm food such as hot pot, beef and mutton. In addition, the use of modern air conditioning also makes people feel dry nose and mouth, which seems to cause a burning sensation in the body, often causing symptoms such as dry throat, chapped lips, and even nosebleeds and oral ulcers. This is actually the manifestation of internal heat, indigestion and qi stagnation. According to the materia medica of past dynasties, the main function of radish is "resolving phlegm and clearing heat, eliminating stagnation and breaking stagnation", so eating radish often in winter can help people who get angry because of excessive meat intake and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Moreover, the winter climate is cold and it is easy to catch a cold. The elderly with cough and yellow phlegm are also the season of bronchitis. Eating some radish can quench thirst, reduce phlegm and reduce qi.

1 raw radish: raw radish tastes sweet and cool, and has strong breaking power.

Wang Mengying, a doctor of febrile diseases in Qing Dynasty, used raw radish to pound juice, added heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving drugs to treat heat phlegm, asthma and cough, and used radish olive soup to drink it often, which could prevent sore throat and cough with heat pain.

Green radish can clear away heat and detoxify. You can directly slice raw radish and chew it as fruit, which can moisten dryness and prevent sore throat from getting angry. You can also cook the leaves on the radish head (also called radish English) in soup, which can also play the same role.

2 radish mixed with jellyfish skin

For people who usually have too much phlegm and are prone to yellow phlegm, you can shred radish, mix it with jellyfish silk or jellyfish skin, eat it as a meal, refresh your mind, and have the effect of moistening dryness and resolving phlegm.

3 stewed radish

Stewed radish is not spicy but sweet, slightly warm in nature, and has the function of "relaxing the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and promoting fluid production".

With the improvement of modern people's living conditions, it is easy to overeat. You can use radish to make soup to help dispel wind and disperse knots.

4 Radish and onion

Prevention and treatment of wind-cold common cold. Winter is a season of frequent colds and colds. Symptoms such as stuffy nose, runny nose, cough and excessive phlegm appear after a cold. At this time, onion, ginger and radish slices are cooked together, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving cough.

5 Radish and meat

Mutton, beef and other meats can be stewed with white radish with cooling effect, which not only eliminates phlegm and purges fire, but also relieves greasy without getting angry.

Radish is suitable for all ages.

But after all, it has the function of "reducing qi" and "eliminating stagnation"

People with weak or cold constitution should not eat more.

Text: District Health and Wellness Committee