White radish
The dispute between "supplement" and "leakage"
In autumn and winter, white radish is a frequent visitor at the dining table of every household. There is a saying that "eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer". The radish here refers to white radish. Some people say that eating white radish can replenish qi, and white radish is called "little ginseng". Some people also say that white radish cannot be taken with ginseng and other qi-enhancing medicines, because white radish "depresses" and will discharge the replenished "qi". What are the two contradictory statements? Is white radish "ejaculation" or "replenishment"?
" Lei Gong Pao Pharmaceutical Properties and Exercise " records that "Lai Pills are pungent and relieved the lungs and are sweet to the spleen, so they enter them. The raw ones are relieved and eat more to consume blood, and use more to make pungent than sweet. The mature ones are nourishing the spleen, eat more to eat more to stagnant qi, and use more to make sweet than to make pungent." The white radish tastes sweet, but the raw radish will have a very obvious spicy flavor, which will dissipate and distract. Therefore, raw white radish produces fluid and quenches thirst, and has the effects of eliminating wind-heat and anti-virals; the symptoms are wind-heat cold , lung heat cough (sooth sore throat, yellow phlegm), dry mouth and tongue, hoarse throat, acute enteritis, and dysentery .
After the white radish is cooked, the pungent taste has been basically removed, especially after being softened by stewing, it only tastes pure sweetness, and its effect is more than "replenishing". Therefore, cooked radish is effective in strengthening the spleen and digesting food, resolving phlegm, and promoting digestion and excretion. Symptoms of indigestion, abdominal distension and diet, chest tightness and sputum, and difficulty in urination and defecation.
Summarize white radish: Raw people are breathless, and cooked people are nourishing the spleen
White radish is wonderful for
White radish + scallion white cold, which has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving cough, and can be used to prevent colds.
White radish hollowed out the center and filled it with honey and steamed for 20 minutes. It is suitable for " old slow spin ".
White radish + pears boiled in water can digest food, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.
Finally, I want to say: White radish should be eaten with the skin, because half of the benefits of radish lies in the skin.
Source: Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
