Nicknames: Radish, Chibi, Lu Fen, Lu Fen, Shepherd's purse root, Purple flowered Song, Warm Song, bract Chibi, Purple Song
Harvesting and processing: In autumn and winter, dig fresh roots, remove stems and leaves, and wash thoroughly.
Medicinal parts: Fresh roots
Origin: National
Family: Brassicaceae
Original plant: Radish (Radish)
Characteristics of Laisu medicinal herb: Fresh and fleshy roots, cylindrical, conical or spherical in shape, some with branching, with significant differences in size. There are red, purple red, green, white, or pink and white on the surface, with residual petiole base at the top. Crispy in texture, rich in moisture, with a cross-section that appears white, light green, or purple red in color, with distinct layered rings. The skin is dark in color, with the majority of the wood being woody, and dotted radial textures visible. Mild aroma, sweet, light or spicy taste.
The medicinal properties of radish:
[Taste] Spicy taste; Gan; Sexual coolness; Ripe ones taste sweet; Sexual Peace
[Gui Jing] Spleen; Stomach; Lung; Large intestine meridian
【 Indications 】 Digestive function; Lower Qi; reduce phlegm; Hemostasis; assuage thirst; diuresis. Main digestive disorders; Food accumulation and bloating; Swallowing acid; Diarrhea; Dysentery; Phlegm heat cough; Adverse throat condition; Coughing up blood; Vomiting and bleeding; Rectal bleeding; Quench thirst; Linzhuo; External treatment of sores and ulcers; Injury and swelling; Burns and frostbite
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Take raw food and mash the remaining juice, 30-100g; Or boil soup or eat it. For external use: appropriate amount, apply by pounding, apply by pounding juice, drip by nose, boil and wash with water.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Bielu": Mainly benefiting the five organs and replenishing qi.
2. "Tang Bencao": Take it in powder or by soaking and boiling, to relieve qi, reduce grain, and eliminate phlegm addiction; Freshly pounded juice, mainly used to quench thirst.
3. Meng Qiao: Extremely beneficial to joints, eliminates strokes in the five organs, and exercises the evil qi in the five organs.
4. "Four Sounds of Materia Medica": Ordinary people overeat, chew and swallow raw food to relieve constipation, and also have a tendency to cough and vomit blood in the lungs.
5. "Eating Materia Medica": Promoting good habits and dispelling evil heat. Flower: Bright eyes.
6. "Rihuazi Bencao": It can relieve phlegm and cough, treat lung dysfunction and vomiting blood; Warm, supplement deficiencies, treat fatigue, thinness, cough, and cook with lamb and crucian carp.
7. Daily Materia Medica: Widen the chest and diaphragm, facilitate urination and defecation, when cooked, reduce phlegm and eliminate grains; Eating it raw can quench thirst with ease.
8. Wang Ying's "Food Materia Medica": Raw and pounded, used to treat dysentery.
9. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Kill fishy smell and treat tofu accumulation.
10. "Gangmu": It is mainly used to swallow acid, dissolve stagnation, relieve alcohol and toxins, disperse blood stasis, and is highly effective. End of treatment for five types of gonorrhea; Pill administration for treating white turbidity; Boil soup to wash athlete's foot; Drinking juice to treat diarrhea and loss of voice, and smoking to death; Raw pounding, rubbing, and rubbing, soup and fire damage.
11. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": Removing the Poison of Fuzi.
12. "Suixi Ju Dietary Handbook": Used to treat cough, loss of voice, and various throat diseases; Relieve coal poisoning and eggplant poisoning. Mature individuals have lower qi and middle qi, nourish the spleen and promote food intake, produce fluids, keep warm and cool, and have already carried turbidity. They nourish the fetus and blood.
13. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Laishu, also known as turnip, has the same function. However, it has strong power and can be used to cut off the root below. When cooked, it can be used as medicine.
14. "The Origin of Materia Medica": The root of Ligustrum lucidum is said to be the only one among plants and trees that has a rapid qi flow, which is its source of vitality. Otherwise, it is not. Like ginger and mustard seeds, they are spicy and not just able to disperse? Laisu Xin is sweet and fragrant, so it can disperse slowly and lower the speed of Qi. Ginger is used for dispersing qi, and radish is used for releasing qi.
15. "Supplement to the Interpretation of Materia Medica": The root of Radix Ziziphi, according to "Materia Medica", has a rapid lower Qi. Often, when people eat too much of it, it stagnates and becomes a disease of excessive drinking, with more sweetness and less spiciness.
16. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Potatoes, with roots and leaves of the same pattern, can raise qi when eaten raw and lower qi when cooked. Su and Kou stopped talking about the speed of their lower Qi, while Sun Zhenren said that he had been eating astringent Yingwei for a long time, but he did not know that when it was raw, it would emit Qi, and when it was cooked, it would deflate. There were also differences in its rise and fall. Most of them enter the Taiyin, Yangming, and Shaoyang Qi divisions, so they are mainly responsible for diseases of the lungs, spleen, intestines, stomach, and three burners. Li Jiuhua said, 'Rice porridge is a food that seeps into people's blood.'. His white beard hair is also covered by this, not only because of his astringent aura.
17. "Commentary on the Classic of Materia Medica": The root of Zizania latifolia, as stated in the "Classic of Materia Medica", is used for dispelling qi and reducing grain, eliminating phlegm addiction, fertilizing and strengthening the body, warming the middle and supplementing deficiencies, widening the chest and diaphragm, promoting urination and defecation, resolving phlegm and promoting digestion. It should be cooked thoroughly; It is used to quench thirst, treat facial toxins, promote good health, eliminate pathogenic heat, treat lung dysfunction, vomiting blood, phlegm and diarrhea caused by lung heat. It is also suitable for raw consumption. "
[Attention]
① According to the "Essential Principles of Materia Medica": "The roots of Radix Rehmanniae and Polygonum multiflorum, when consumed by humans, make their beards turn white. ""
② The Book of Changes states: "Do not eat if the spleen and stomach are weak and cold, and cannot be melted. ""
【 Appendix 】 ① Treating food sourness: Chew a few slices of raw radish or lettuce. Dried, cooked, salted, and those with cold stomachs are all ineffective. (A Brief Introduction to Lake Collection)
② Treating nausea and vomiting: Crush the radish, pan fry it with honey, and chew it carefully. (Pope Francis)
③ Treatment of tuberculous, adhesive intestinal obstruction, and mechanical intestinal obstruction: 1 pound of white radish, sliced, added 1000 milliliters of water, and boiled to 500 milliliters. One dose per day, taken in one go. (Selected Materials on New Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy in Inner Mongolia)
④ To treat speechlessness: Mash raw radish juice, add ginger juice and take together. (Pope Francis)
⑤ Treat phlegm, heat, and throat obstruction: spit out radish juice and soapberry juice. (Pope Francis)
⑥ Treating nosebleeds is not limited to: half a cup of radish (mashed juice), add a little wine, take it hot, and pour the juice into the nose for good results. Or boil it in wine, add radish, and then fry and drink it. (Hygiene Easy Recipe)
⑦ To treat hemoptysis caused by pulmonary tuberculosis: Two pounds of red radish, 300 milliliters of water, boil to 100 milliliters, remove the residue, and then add three qian of alum and three liang of honey. Take 60ml three times a day on an empty stomach in the morning and evening. (Chinese Anti Tuberculosis (2): 901960)
⑧ Treat thirst and dry mouth: Drink one liter of ground radish juice. (Food and Medicine Heart Mirror)
⑨ To treat various heat dysentery, blood dysentery, and pain in the large intestine after Jing: Cut the radish into small pieces, grind it finely, filter the juice, mix it with honey water, and fry together. Take it before eating in the morning and afternoon, and drink 100 pieces of Coptis ass hide glue pills with rice in Ripu. Replace radishes with radish seeds. (Pope Francis)
⑩ Treating alcohol related illness and bleeding, lasting for more than ten days: pick 20 slightly larger and more round radishes, leave more than an inch of green leaves and the roots, take a well from a porcelain vase and boil it in water until it is very hot, ginger rice, light vinegar, hollow and eat it as you like. It's especially good to boil heavy soup with silverware. (Carrot Vegetables in the New Book of Longevity and Elderly Care)
(11) Treatment of headache caused by deviation from the right direction: Take a clam shell of raw radish juice, lie on your back, and inject it into your nose from left to right. (Ru Yi Fang)
12. Treating soup burns and scalds caused by fire, and treating skin damage caused by flower fire: Mash and apply raw radish, or use it as a seed. (St. Francis of Assisi)
(13) For those who have blood accumulation but do not break their skin, seal them with radish or leaves. (Gangmu)
(14) Treat mouth ulcers: Rinse radish natural juice frequently to remove saliva. (A Brief Introduction to Lake Collection)
(15) Treatment for unbearable pain in various lymph nodes, as well as sand and gravel lymph nodes: Cut the large radish into four or five slices thick per finger, use white honey to submerge it well, use an iron shovel to dry it over low heat, dip and grill it again, take one or two liang of honey, repeatedly grill until fragrant and cooked, do not burn, wait for cold to chew carefully, and serve with salt soup. (Zhu's Collection of Verified Medical Formulas - Qingxuan Cream)
(16) Treatment for athlete's foot and walking pain: Wash with radish decoction, still dry the radish into powder, and lay it in socks. (St. Francis of Assisi)“