Radish is a vegetable that can be eaten as a salad with hot dishes. It is beneficial to consume it raw with vegetable oil and cream.
Radish contains 90% water, sugar, fiber, essential oils, medicines, acids, sodium salts, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, amino acids, enzymes and other useful substances. Radish juice has long been used to improve intestinal function, strengthen hair fibers.
In folk medicine, a mixture of radish and honey is an ointment for various wounds and sores. Boiled radishes cure cough. It is recommended as an anti-inflammatory, expectorant, treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs.
Radish root can not be consumed by patients with gastrointestinal ulcers, inflammation, ie gastritis, enteritis - inflammation of the small intestine, hepatitis and some heart diseases.
