Why do so many people like to eat radishes?

Yes!

Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine and folk have said that "ginger can cure all diseases".

One: eating radish has many advantages:

White radish is a common vegetable, which can be eaten raw or cooked. It tastes slightly spicy. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which has the functions of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Chinese medicine theory also thinks that it is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It is a good dietotherapy method, which can treat or assist in the treatment of many diseases. Compendium of Materia Medica calls it "the most beneficial vegetable". Therefore, white radish has certain medicinal value in clinic.

First, digestion: indigestion, bloating, indigestion, poor appetite, you can drink raw juice; Nausea and vomiting, acid water spitting and chronic dysentery can all be chopped and fried with honey and chewed carefully; Constipation, can cook; Mouth ulcer, you can rinse your mouth with juice.

Second, breathing: cough and expectoration, it is best to chop up honey and chew it carefully; Pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness and aphonia can be taken with ginger juice; For nosebleeds, you can iron your clothes slightly with raw juice and wine, or you can pour the juice into your nose; Hemoptysis, mutton and crucian carp cooked together; In order to prevent colds, you can cook food.

Third, the urinary system: all kinds of urinary calculi, dysuria, can be taken orally with honey slices; All kinds of edema can be taken with radish floating wheat soup.

Fourth, other aspects: beauty, cooking; Beriberi, decoction and external washing; Detoxification, hangover or gas poisoning can be used, or you can drink it with leaf decoction; Tongli joints can be cooked.

Radish skin is divided into red, white, purple and green, and its appearance is different from that of the garden. Its nutritional components are several times higher than other varieties, reaching 250ug/ 100g, and other characteristics are not seen. It is reported that radish contains oxidase, amylase, coumaric acid, caffeic acid, ferulic acid, phenylpyruvic acid, gentisic acid, hydroxybenzoic acid, methyl mercaptan, radish glycoside and mustard oil. Spicy, can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and help digestion.

Chinese medicine believes that radish has the functions of promoting qi circulation, relaxing chest and diaphragm, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and diuresis, and removing toxic substances and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for acute and chronic bronchitis, cough, common cold, sore throat, headache, dyspepsia, hematemesis, epistaxis, thirst quenching and dysentery. It has certain curative effect on typhoid fever, enteritis and intestinal bleeding. It also has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on nephritis and diabetes. It is reported that the juice extracted from radish roots can prevent the formation of gallstones and be used for gallstones. The alcohol extracts of "Raphanus sativus" and root tuber have antibacterial effect, and have inhibitory effect on many kinds of bacteria, especially on Gram-positive bacteria. White radish is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, such as people in loose stool, so eat less.

Modern medical research has found that radish contains lignin that can improve the ability of macrophages to phagocytose cancer cells, and also contains an enzyme that can decompose nitrosamines, a carcinogen. Therefore, radish may be an anticancer food.

Two: places to pay attention to when eating radish:

It varies from person to person. People with a cold stomach are not easy to eat more white radish. But in general, eating radish is delicious, and there is a saying that eating radish in autumn and winter is not as good as ginseng.

Thank you!