As the saying goes, "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't need a doctor's prescription". White radish has the reputation of ginseng. Both Chinese medicine and modern medicine believe that people often eat white radish, which plays an extremely important role in protecting their health. But the reason why white radish can play its health care role lies in its unique nutrition and medicinal components. If you don't pay attention to science when eating, you will easily go into a misunderstanding, fail to play a role in health care, and even damage your health.

It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that white radish is "cool in nature, sweet and pungent in taste, and can clear fire, promote digestion, strengthen spleen, cool blood and promote qi circulation". It can be seen that people with cold food and yang deficiency constitution are prone to diarrhea due to spleen and stomach deficiency. If you eat white radish, it will aggravate the symptoms of yang deficiency and lead to digestive system diseases.

Patients with gastric ulcer and gastritis and female friends with symptoms of palace cold should also pay attention to eating less white radish.

Improper processing method is easy to lose nutrition. When eating white radish, many people like to cook it with some meat, saying that white radish absorbs the fragrance and oil and is more delicious. Modern nutrition believes that the nutritional value of white radish lies in its rich bioactive substances such as mustard oil, lignin, amylase and interferon inducer. These substances will decompose rapidly at high temperatures exceeding 70 degrees.

Therefore, it is easy to lose a lot of nutrients when processing white radish by stewing, so even if you eat more white radish, it will not play a health care role. The best processing method is low temperature processing, cold salad or pickled food, which can retain its nutrition to the maximum extent.

Many friends know that white radish is discouraged and ginseng is beneficial, so white radish and ginseng are contradictory and cannot be eaten together, otherwise ginseng will be eaten for nothing.

White radish should not be eaten with Rehmannia glutinosa and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Rehmannia glutinosa and Polygonum multiflorum have outstanding nourishing effects and are easily reduced by white radish, which will lead to white hair.

In addition, white radish should not be eaten with carrots, cucumbers and animal livers. Biological enzymes in carrots and cucumbers will destroy vitamin C in white radish, and iron in the liver will also reduce the content of vitamin C in white radish, resulting in a decrease in the nutrition of white radish, which can not play the best health care role.