Some friends pay great attention to health preservation and have the habit of drinking soup before meals. In fact, this is a good habit; drinking soup before meals is beneficial to longevity and health. Among soups, lamb radish soup is delicious and nutritious. So, what are the benefits of lamb radish soup? Now let me reveal its nutritional value. If you want to maintain health, you should also understand this knowledge.

The soft and tender radish cooked in white radish absorbs the soup of lamb and is super delicious!

This soup with radish can relieve heat toxins, remove phlegm and dampness, and relieve abdominal distension. Lamb is sweet and warm, rich in nutrition, and benefits the middle Qi, tonifying weakness. When used together, they have the effects of tonifying deficiency, clearing heat, and resolving phlegm, and can be used as a complementary food for patients with tuberculosis and bronchial dilation. Since the baby had laryngitis before, some radish and homemade tangerine peel (the tangerine peel must be dried for more than three years to have medicinal effects) were added to the soup, making the soup fresh and delicious.

The Ming Dynasty physician and pharmacologist Li Shizhen once highly praised radish as ‘can be raw or cooked, can be pickled or made into sauce, can be used to make pickled vegetables or vinegar, can be used to make porridge’, and is ‘the most beneficial vegetable among vegetables’. Indeed, radish, besides being a popular vegetable that people like to eat, has even greater medicinal value.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that radish is mild and slightly cold, with the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting digestion and appetite, resolving phlegm and cough, smoothing the flow of Qi and promoting diuresis, and quenching thirst. Modern research has proven that the saccharifying enzymes and mustard oil components in radish are very beneficial to human digestive function. Radish seeds are also commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and have good antihypertensive effects. Radish leaves can promote digestion and regulate Qi, and decocting the soup for gargle can treat sore throat. The old radish that grows in the ground for a long time is known as ‘Di Kui Hua’ in traditional Chinese medicine, which has excellent diuretic and edema-relieving effects and is very effective for symptoms such as chest fullness, edema, and dysentery.