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How to use black radish for cough?
Whether raw, as cough syrup or in a salad: Black radish is not only a home remedy for colds and coughs but also healthy food.
- You can not only get cough syrup in the pharmacy, but you can also make it yourself – as your grandmother did. All you need is a black radish, a spoonful of honey, and some sugar.
- Use a knife to make a deep indentation in the black radish. Poke a few small holes in the bottom of the well with a needle. These should poke through the black radish skin on the opposite side, as they serve as juice channels—cough syrup channels, so to speak.
- Then fill the well with sugar and honey and place the radish on a jar or bowl that will serve as a receptacle. After about 3 hours you can take your homemade cough syrup for the first time and should then use it immediately, as the health-promoting effect is quickly lost.
- You can then enlarge the cavity and repeat the process until no more cough syrup leaves the radish.
- If you don’t want to lend a hand yourself, but still don’t want to do without the black radish, it doesn’t matter: radish juice for coughs can also be bought in pharmacies or on the Internet.
- Incidentally, black radishes add that certain something to a salad: they are hotter raw than white ones.
- That’s why you should put it in salt or vinegar, which takes the spiciness out of the vegetables. You can grate it or cut it into strips for salads.
- As a raw food, black radish unfolds its full health-promoting effect against coughs. If you don’t have a problem with the heat, you can support your immune system with a few pieces a day.
What actually is black radish?
Black radish grows in winter. So when most people get caught by cough and cold. But what is the local original superfood all about?
- Black radish belongs to the cruciferous family and is characterized by rough black skin.
- Black radish juice is popular because of its antioxidant properties and high vitamin C content. White radish also has such properties, but at a lower concentration.
- Organic farmers in particular have rediscovered the black radish for some time now. In addition to the positive effect on health, the vegetable is also extremely delicate with a subtle spiciness.
- Black radish was already known to the ancient Egyptians as a household remedy. And in Europe, too, it was rarely missing from grandmother’s pharmacy of tried-and-tested home remedies.