Garden Radish
Radix Raphani
Lai Fu

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Acrid; sweet; cool

Part(s) used

Fresh root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To disperse food, precipitate qi, transform phlegm, stanch bleeding, allay thirst, disinhibit urine.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Indigestion, food accumulation distention and fullness, hyperchlorhydria, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, phlegm-heat cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, diabetes mellitus, strangury-turbidity, sores, stasis swelling due to injury, scalds, frostbite.