2, boiled white radish can also play a role in sterilization and disinfection. Drinking more in winter can also prevent colds. Therefore, it is recommended to drink plenty of water and cook white radish in winter to sterilize and prevent colds.
3, boiled white radish can also promote the human digestive system, but also has a strong anti-inflammatory effect, but also enhance the human immune function. Radish is rich in vitamin C and trace element zinc, which helps to enhance human immune function and improve disease resistance.
4. The boiled water of white radish can decompose nitrosamines, a carcinogen in other foods, thus playing an anti-cancer role. It is also very helpful for treating chest tightness and asthma.
Extended data:
There are folk sayings in China, such as "October radish and October ginseng" and "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription". Radish is a cruciferous herb. Radish is flat, slightly cold, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and is a good food therapy. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, promoting qi circulation, relaxing bowels, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, invigorating middle energizer and tranquilizing mind. Radish contains more vitamin C than ordinary fruits, and is also rich in vitamins A and B, calcium, phosphorus and iron.
Radish also contains many glucoamylase which can help digestion. Mustard oil that promotes gastrointestinal peristalsis and stimulates appetite; Lignin can improve the activity of macrophages, phagocytize cancer cells and decompose carcinogenic nitrite. In addition, it also contains glucose, oxidase adenosine, pentose, gasified mucin, histidine, choline and other components. Therefore, it has inhibitory effect on streptococcus, staphylococcus, pneumococcus and Escherichia coli.
White radish leaves are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and other vitamins, especially the content of vitamin C is more than 4 times that of roots. Vitamin C can prevent skin aging, prevent the formation of dark spots and keep skin white and tender. In addition, both vitamin A and vitamin C have antioxidant effects, which can effectively inhibit cancer and prevent aging and arteriosclerosis.
References:
Winter health: can you sober up after eating raw radish? An Unknown Dietotherapy Method for Radish-People.com.