There are winter radish, spring radish, summer and autumn radish and so on. It is cultivated everywhere and widely eaten in all seasons.

Since ancient times, there have been folk proverbs such as "radishes go on the market, doctors go to the countryside" and "eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer, and don't bother doctors to prescribe medicine".

White radish is sweet, pungent and cool, and enters the stomach, liver, lungs and large intestine. It has the effects of promoting digestion and appetizing, invigorating spleen and appetizing, promoting qi circulation and resolving phlegm. In the ancient medical book Compendium of Materia Medica, radish is called "the most beneficial vegetable", which shows how high the nutritional value of radish is.

In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, people have realized the importance of health, especially middle-aged and elderly people, but they have developed the habit of regular physical examination. However, in the physical examination report, it is always found that the incidence of some nodules is quite special. Does the nodule have a big influence on the body? Will it become cancerous?

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What is a nodule?

Nodules are palpable localized round, oval or irregular solid lesions. Nodules can be inflammatory or non-inflammatory, involving epidermis, dermis or subcutaneous tissue, ranging in size from millet to cherry or larger, and can become plaques when combined with each other.

Nodules can occur in many parts of the body, such as breast nodules, lung nodules, hepatic nodules's diseases and skin nodules. Among them, breast nodules and breast hyperplasia are caused by the exuberant secretion of estrogen and progesterone, which stimulates all parts of the body.

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Can nodules become cancerous?

Sarcoidosis will not become malignant. The pathological characteristics of sarcoidosis are mainly epithelioid cells, which are composed of a large number of epithelioid cells, a small number of lymphocytes and plasma cells, and there are small blood vessels in the nodules, so there is little necrosis or occasional mild necrosis.

However, a small part of them will become cancerous. If the nodule is large, with burr, lobulation or pleural depression, there is a certain possibility of canceration.

Once the examination results suggest that there are nodules in the body, it is suggested to clarify the nature and causes of nodules and choose appropriate methods for treatment.

If it is a nodule caused by inflammation in the body, it can be treated with anti-inflammatory drugs, which is beneficial to the disappearance of the nodule. Once the drug treatment effect is not obvious, we should choose the surgical method to remove the nodule in time, which can completely cure the nodule and avoid canceration.

In addition, if the examination results suggest that it belongs to benign small nodules, it can be temporarily not treated, but the growth of nodules should be checked regularly, and once it becomes larger, it needs active treatment.

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Is radish an "accelerator" for nodules?

White radish contains protein, carbohydrates, vitamin C, inorganic salts, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements.

It can supplement the nutrients needed by the body, improve the immunity and strengthen the disease resistance. Moreover, mustard oil and crude fiber in white radish can accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote digestion, accelerate fecal excretion and help relieve constipation.

Nodule patients can't eat white radish. Is white radish an "accelerator" for nodules?

At present, it is clear that patients with nodules can eat white radish, which is not accelerated by nodules and has high nutritional value. For this kind of patients, eating white radish properly is beneficial to the body, and can also improve the body's resistance and prevent nodules from becoming cancerous.

There is glucosinolate in white radish, which is a nutrient with sterilization, anti-inflammation and immunity improvement, and has a certain preventive effect on the canceration of nodules.

But white radish is cold and sweet, and people with gastrointestinal diseases should eat as little as possible.

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Gastroenterologist: I don't want the nodule to become cancerous, so I should eat three things less.

Preserved food

In life, we can often see all kinds of pickled foods. Common pickled foods include pickled mushrooms, bacon, pickled sausages, pickled sauerkraut, salted fish, pickled strawberries, pickled coriander hearts and pickled ginger.

Pickled food contains high salt content and harmful substances such as nitrite. Nitrite comes from nitrate with high content in vegetables. Vegetables absorb nitrogen from nitrogen fertilizer or soil, accumulate non-toxic nitrate, and then are converted into toxic nitrite by some bacteria during curing. If you don't want the nodules to become cancerous, you'd better eat less pickled food.

High fat food

Excessive intake of high-fat and high-cholesterol diet can promote the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer.

According to epidemiological investigation, the incidence of colon cancer is higher in high-fat diet areas such as North America and Western Europe, but it is obviously lower in low-fat diet areas in Asia and Africa.

Studies have also proved that the incidence of breast cancer is related to the intake of animal fat, but has nothing to do with the intake of plant fat.

Spicy food

Sarcoidosis patients should pay special attention to eating spicy food as little as possible. Eating spicy food often may cause cancer, because eating spicy food for a long time will cause irritation to gastric mucosa, which will lead to gastric lesions and induce gastric cancer.

# Philharmonic Health Guide #