White radish contains vitamin C, protein, vitamin B, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, glucoamylase, mustard oil, lignin and other beneficial components. Among them, glucoamylase can decompose starch in food and convert it into dextrin and maltose, which is beneficial to human body's full absorption and utilization; Mustard oil is spicy, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance appetite and help digestion; Lignin can improve the activity of macrophages and phagocytize cancer cells. In addition, the vitamin C content of white radish is among the best in fruits and vegetables, and the vitamin C 100g is higher than that of apples and pears, and it is also known as "radish is pear".
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, white radish is called radish, which is cool in nature, pungent and sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine meridian; It has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting digestion, lowering qi, stopping bleeding, quenching thirst, relieving cough, resolving phlegm, relaxing bowels and inducing diuresis, and is often used for adjuvant treatment of dyspepsia, abdominal distension, stomachache, bronchitis and cough. The modern pharmacological research of white radish also has the functions of relieving diabetes, adjuvant treatment of influenza and respiratory infection, lowering blood pressure and regulating fat.
White radish can strengthen the spleen and stomach and promote digestion. Now that the weather is cold, we need to eat more food to provide heat for our body. In winter, many people eat more and exercise less, which will inevitably lead to food accumulation. If coupled with cold, it is easy to cause colds and fever, and radish can digest food well, thus preventing colds. White radish can relieve constipation and diuresis. Mustard oil and dietary fiber in radish can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase the amount of feces and prevent constipation. White radish can relieve cough and resolve phlegm. Chinese medicine believes that phlegm and turbidity are caused by accumulated food or stagnant water in the body. In winter, the indoor air is dry, which makes people easily get angry and cough with phlegm. White radish can help digestion and digestion, and has a good effect of promoting qi circulation. When qi moves, water moves, so it can eliminate phlegm, and when phlegm disappears, it can stop coughing.
There are two ways to eat white radish: raw and cooked. In Chinese medicine, raw radish can help digestion and clear stomach heat; Cooked food often benefits the spleen and stomach, digestion and qi.
Raw food:
As the saying goes, "there are radishes in bed and ginger in bed." Eating a few white radishes after work or rest every day is good for digestion and health. When eating raw white radish, you need to clean the white radish, cut it into small pieces and chew it directly. At this time, the rich vitamin C in white radish will not be destroyed by high temperature and can be well preserved. In addition, its spicy ingredients can also promote the secretion of gastric juice, regulate gastrointestinal function, and relieve abdominal distension and indigestion.
At the same time, you can also choose to take fresh raw white radish juice. White radish juice can moisten throat, eliminate phlegm, smooth qi, and relieve dry throat and cough caused by dryness in winter. The specific way to eat is to squeeze out 100 ml each time and drink it two or three times a day. Asthma patients can be treated with a little sugar cane, pear or lotus root juice, and the effect will be better. Although eating raw radish has many benefits, it is cold, so people who are taking traditional Chinese medicine, people with qi deficiency, yang deficiency, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, and patients with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis and uterine prolapse, it is best to eat less or not.
Cooked food:
In fact, most people eat white radish by heating to make cooked food. Such as stewed mutton with white radish, mutton can dispel cold and warm the heart and stomach, but it is easy to get angry if you eat too much mutton. At this time, adding cool white radish can not only moisten dryness and clear fire, help digestion, but also solve the problem of greasy mutton and complementary nutrition of meat and vegetables. Another example is white radish pear juice, which has the effects of moistening lung, cooling heart, resolving phlegm and removing fire. Juicing with white radish can not only cover up the spicy taste of white radish, but also double the therapeutic effect. People with poor spleen and stomach in winter can also boil water to drink together, which also has certain effects.
In addition to radish meat is good for health, radish skin also has a certain effect, but many people often use white radish to cook, because they don't like bitter radish skin, so they will peel it off. In fact, this is a very wrong practice. The bitter taste of radish skin mainly comes from flavonoids, and the two most important "radish flavonoids" are quercetin and kaempferol. These flavonoids help to control blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids and so on.
Winter is the best season to eat radish, which is eaten by almost every household, but it should be noted that radish is good, but it needs to be eaten reasonably according to its own physique. In particular, people with spleen and stomach weakness, qi deficiency, yang deficiency and fear of cold should be careful to eat. See you tomorrow!