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Mutton soup and white radish
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Radish (white radish) is sweet soil. Raw food can nourish qi, cooked food can reduce qi and eliminate phlegm, promote digestion and dissipate blood stasis, treat hematemesis, epistaxis, cough and acid swallowing, relieve alcohol poisoning, facilitate defecation and accumulate tofu. " White radish has no fat removal effect. The purpose of this white radish for reducing abdomen tea is to "help digestion". White radish contains fiber, does not contain cholesterol, does not produce too much calories, and does not gain weight after eating; Adding this formula can not only help digestion, but also improve the taste. The ancients often said that "the radish goes on stage and the doctor goes home", which means that white radish "can help digestion, prevent various diseases caused by indigestion, and make those street doctors unprofitable and have to go home". He also said that "radish is used for sleeping, ginger is used for getting up, and doctors do not need to prescribe"; It means that eating ginger in the morning and radish at night can keep you healthy all the time. Because the sun is not strong in the morning, eating ginger can warm the sun; If you eat cool radish [spicy and sweet, flat and cool; There is a kind of radish in Beijing called "Heart Beauty", which is sweeter than Sydney. It is easy to damage gastrointestinal function and cause temporary diarrhea, so eat it at night to digest what accumulates in the stomach during the day. Therefore, radish is a good health food. White radish is cool and suitable for real heat; If the constitution belongs to people with deficiency and cold, it should not be eaten often. People with deficiency and cold must stew the radish until it is rotten and yellow, and its nature changes from cold to warm before eating; Moreover, white radish is usually stewed with hot food such as beef, mutton and ribs, and will not be cold. Don't worry about eating! People often preach that "eating white radish will relieve the drug effect", so many people do not eat white radish when taking medicine; This needs to be explained: people with deficiency-cold constitution need to be nourished, and they should be nourished with warm medicine. White radish is cold and not suitable for eating; Because the cold and heat of medicine and food balance each other, the effect loses itself. However, if people with dry mouth and constipation are really hot, they must take antipyretic drugs and white radish at the same time, which can enhance the efficacy of clearing heat, so people with internal heat should eat more vegetable heads. As for carrots, their functions are similar to those of white radishes. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "It is sweet and flat in taste, non-toxic, and it is a common dish in the world." Modern research has found that carrots are rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in human body, and can be used to treat night blindness, which has a good effect on preventing and treating dry eye, corneal softening, ulcer and even virus or bacteria invasion. In addition, vitamin A is indispensable to the development of human body, and it is also one of the important factors to maintain the normal functions of digestive system, nervous system and endocrine system.

So whether it's white radish or carrot, eating more is definitely good for your health.

If you want to remove the fishy smell of mutton, you can put a small amount of orange peel to improve the taste and remove the fishy smell. (My mother's secret recipe for making mutton soup)