Traditional Chinese Medicine: Cabbage and radish keep you safe

　　Cabbage and radish are the most popular vegetables in daily life, especially in winter when cabbage and radish are already mature. At this time, the weather turns cold, and our body needs these vegetables to resist cold and disease. In the village, every family will harvest a large amount of cabbage in winter. Most people eat cabbage throughout the winter. People who love cabbage can spend the whole winter safely.

　　There is a folk saying: "Cabbage and radish keep you safe." Let me tell people from one side: cabbage and radish are safe foods that can be eaten with confidence. Therefore, despite the low price of cabbage and radish, their nutritional value and medicinal value are very high. We might as well eat some of them regularly in our daily life.

　　Cabbage is delicious and nutritious, and is known as the "King of Vegetables". Cabbage has a long history of cultivation. Cabbage seeds were discovered in the original Banpo village site in Xi'an during the Neolithic period in my country, dating back about 6,000 to 7,000 years. ”Today, cabbage has been introduced in many countries around the world, and there are many types of cabbage.

　　In addition to being a vegetable for people to eat, cabbage also has certain medicinal value. It is recorded in ancient medical books that "cabbage can facilitate the gastrointestinal tract, remove troubles in the chest, and relieve hangover poison." The book once said: "Cabbage juice is sweet, warm and non-toxic, beneficial to the intestines and stomach, relieves chest troubles, relieves drunkenness and thirst, facilitates defecation and defecation, and relieves coughs." If mixed with scallions, ginger, radish and other decoctions, it can cure colds; if it is mashed, stir-fried and applied externally to the abdomen, it can cure stomach problems. Cabbage root mixed with silver flowers and purple-backed duckweed can be decoctioned or mashed and applied to the affected area. It can treat skin allergies, especially facial skin allergies. It has a good effect. Wash and chop the Chinese cabbage and fry it in thick soup. Wash the chilblain affected area every night before going to bed. The effect will be seen after washing for several days. Modern medicine has discovered that eating more cabbage can also prevent breast cancer. Scientists from the Hormone Research Institute in New York, USA, found that the reason why Chinese and Japanese women have a much lower incidence of breast cancer than Western women is because they often eat cabbage. Cabbage contains some trace elements that can help break down estrogen, which is linked to breast cancer.

　　my country is the hometown of radish and has a long history of cultivation and consumption. Radish is also known as "radish" and "luofu". It can be used to make dishes, stir-fried, boiled, and served cold. It can also be eaten raw as a fruit, which is delicious, and can also be used as pickles and pickles.

　　Radish has high nutritional value and is rich in carbohydrates and multiple vitamins. The content of vitamin C is 8 to 10 times higher than that of pears. Radish does not contain oxalic acid, which not only does not bind to the calcium in food, but is more conducive to calcium absorption.

　　Radish also has high medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that radish has the effects of digesting food, resolving phlegm and calming asthma, clearing away heat and smoothing Qi, reducing swelling and blood stasis. Among the Chinese people, radish is known as "little ginseng". There are sayings like "when radish is on the market, doctors are fine", "when radish goes to the city, doctors are closed", "if you eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, you don't need a doctor to prescribe medicine", "if you eat radish, you will make the doctor angry", "if you eat radish and drink tea, the doctor will be angry all over the street". A poet from the Yuan Dynasty once wrote a poem praising radish: “When cooked, it is as sweet as taro, and when eaten raw, it is as crisp as a pear. The old illness disappears and the stagnation is eliminated, and the miracle work is the real thing." Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, also highly praised radish. He mentioned in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that radish can "expand qi, eliminate grains, neutralize and remove evil heat." ”Recent studies have shown that the fiber lignin contained in radish has a strong anti-cancer effect, and the effect is better when eaten raw; the oil and dietary fiber in radish can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help the discharge of waste in the body; regular consumption of radish can reduce blood lipids, soften blood vessels, stabilize blood pressure, and prevent coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cholelithiasis and other diseases.

　　In our daily life, there are many "radish medicinal meals" using radish as the main ingredient or as auxiliary ingredients, which have certain health care effects. For example, "Radish Stewed Lamb Belly Soup" can replenish qi, strengthen the spleen and eliminate food accumulation, and can also prevent dry skin, chapped, and frostbite; "Radish Stewed Abalone Soup" has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, widening the middle and quenching thirst, and can be used to assist diabetes. Treatment: "Carrot cake" mainly treats dizziness, headache, vomiting, coughing, and abdominal distension after eating caused by phlegm-dampness; "Honey steamed radish" has the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, and resolving phlegm; "Roasted cuttlefish with radish" can lower blood lipids and blood pressure, which is very helpful for weight loss. It is worth noting that people are accustomed to peeling off the skin of radish when eating radish. However, 98% of the calcium contained in radish is in the skin, so it is best to eat radish with the skin on. Of course, although radishes are good, you should be careful when eating them. Because radish has a spicy and sweet taste and is cold in nature, those with spleen and stomach deficiency, unable to digest it after eating, or those with a weak constitution should eat less; radish breaks Qi, so do not use it after taking tonics such as ginseng, raw and cooked rehmannia, polygonum multiflorum, etc., otherwise it will affect the efficacy of the medicine. In addition, because eating raw radishes produces more gas and is not good for ulcers, patients with such diseases should eat less radishes.

　　We can't just eat cabbage in winter. We should also eat more cabbage and radish in other seasons. Eating too much of these two vegetables will not gain weight, but will only be good for the body. It is a very good choice.