nowadays it is edible radish

a good season, from the Chinese point of view, radish is not only nutritious vegetables, is still bent on heat Sheng Jin, digestion of stagnation, appetizers spleen, cis-gas phlegm of Chinese herbal medicine known as radish.

radish is a given of human nature, good food, but some people have a little disaster has, as radish when fresh, when it is time for people to tonic, the traditional idea that the red ginseng, white ginseng, American ginseng and white were all radish-phase . Department of precious ginseng tonic, white radish, cheap vegetables, fresh radishes and ruin for ginseng is worth.

conventional wisdom, ginseng qi, while the radish discouraged, the two effects offset. This argument is scientifically unfounded. There physician access to the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, “Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica” and other classics of Chinese medicine with all participants could not find any record of radish mutually exclusive. There are physicians for the turnip rehabilitation: radish-breaking gas pains in our bodies is broken, rather than breaking qi ginseng, ginseng supplement may be allowed to eat turnip!

talking about nutrition and the effectiveness of radish, the natural world there is no comparison with it a few vegetables. There proverb goes: “radish little ginseng”, “Winter Fresh carrot, non-labor medical prescriptions,” “carrot on the street, pharmacy no sale” can get a glimpse.

carrot vitamin C content of fruit is also more than the average, it contains vitamins A, B, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. also abundant. Radish also contains a lot of help digest glucoamylase, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase appetite. Radish is more than ginseng one's opponent is that it contains lignin allows the body to improve macrophage viability, phagocytic cells, and carcinogenic decomposition of nitrite.

(taken from Hong Kong “Ta Kung Pao” Author: Cee-kin)