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Why eat radish in winter and ginger in summer?
In summer, a lot of qi and blood are distributed on the body surface to dissipate heat, but the internal organs are in a state of relative deficiency of qi and blood. Just like nature, it's hot outside and cool in the cave in summer. It's cold outside in winter and relatively warm in the cave. Human viscera and acupoints are analogous. Therefore, this is also the reason why many people have no spirit when they are hot, and their viscera and qi and blood are relatively insufficient.

In July and August, it was dog days, the climate was hot, and the human yang was on the table. Chinese medicine believes that "external heat is one point and internal cold is one point". Body surface heat, stomach cold.

In summer, people tend to be greedy for cold, like to eat cold fruits, even cold drinks and ice cream. Gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea often occur after deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach. So eat more ginger, ginger can warm the spleen and stomach and protect people's stomach from cold.

Especially in modern times, air conditioners are blown too much, and people who catch cold in summer are everywhere. Eating more ginger is just like Chongqing people love hot pot in summer. After eating hot pot, they sweated and felt comfortable and cool. If you don't sweat and suffocate, people will be very hot.

Eating radishes in winter is because people usually eat more fat, which is sweet and delicious, big fish and big meat, and tonic in winter. Radish can help the body digest, help the gastrointestinal tract smooth, and not accumulate food and bloating.

"Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" Jiang: Xin Wen. Main chest full of cough against qi, warming middle warmer to stop bleeding, sweating and expelling wind, damp arthralgia, abdominal distension and diarrhea. People who are alive are particularly good. After a long time, the stench will be removed, and the immortals will be enlightened.

Ginger tastes pungent and warm, and has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold and stopping vomiting by warming. Summer spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, poor appetite. Proper consumption of ginger can promote appetite, prevent heatstroke and cool down, and has a good effect on symptoms such as wind-cold, dizziness, nausea and chest tightness.

If nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, stomachache, diarrhea and other symptoms occur due to poor diet in summer, drinking a cup of spicy brown sugar ginger tea or several sticks of Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid can be cured quickly, and Fuzi Lizhong Pill can also be used.