This product is the seed of radish (Raphanus sativus L.), an annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the Brassicaceae family. Produced all over the country. Harvest mature seeds in early summer and dry them in the sun. Use raw or stir-fried, and mash when used.

[Property]

Acrid and sweet, neutral. act on spleen, stomach and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

Eliminating food and removing swelling, descending qi and resolving phlegm.

[Indications]

1. For food accumulation qi stagnation syndrome/pattern. This pungent taste can disperse food, eliminate food, resolving accumulation, and is especially good at moving qi and reducing swelling. Therefore, it is often used to treat abdominal distension and fullness caused by food accumulation, qi stagnation, belching acid swallow, abdominal pain, etc. It is often used with hawthorn fruit, Medicated Leaven, L>Dried Tangerine Peel is equivalent to Harmony-Preserving Pill. To treat food accumulation diarrhea and tenesmus, it can be used equally with Aucklandia Root, Immature Orange Fruit and Rhubarb Rhizoma.
2. It is used for cough, wheezing, excessive phlegm, chest tightness and little food. This product has the functions of digesting and appetizing, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, descending qi and relieving dyspnea. It can be used equally with white mustard seed and cultivated puple perilla fruit, such as Three-Seed Filial Devotion Decoction.

[Documentation]

1. Rihuazi Bencao: "Grind it with water and spit out wind phlegm, grind it with vinegar to reduce swelling and poison."
2. " Materia Medica Gangmu": "Lowering qi can relieve asthma and treat phlegm. It can help digestion, remove swelling, facilitate defecation, relieve gas pain, and relieve diarrhea and vesicles."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~10g. Use wind phlegm when raw, and lowering qi resolving phlegm when stir-fried.

[Precaution]

This product is pungent and dissipates qi, so it should be used with caution by those with qi deficiency, no food accumulation, and phlegm stagnation. It is not suitable to be used together with Ginseng.

This product contains a small amount of volatile oil. It also contains alkali, alkali bisulfate, radish seed, alkaloids, flavonoids, etc. This product can enhance the rhythmic contraction of isolated ileum in rabbits, inhibit gastric emptying in mice, increase the circular muscle tone of the gastric pylorus and reduce the longitudinal muscle tone of the gastric fundus in guinea pigs when used raw or stir-fried. The effect is greater than the biological use. Fried radish seed can significantly antagonize the inhibition of epinephrine on the rhythmic contraction of isolated ileum in rabbits. The aqueous extract of this product and the alkali hydrogen sulfate of india mustard seed contained in this product have significant antihypertensive effects, and its total alcohol extract also has antihypertensive effects. The water extract of this product has certain inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus and bacilli such as large intestine, dysentery, disease caused by cold, etc. Water immersion agents have inhibitory effects on a variety of skin fungi that cause nature of disease. Its aqueous extract has certain anti-inflammatory effects.