Post Date December, 03 2023
A friend recently followed the regimen of "going to bed with turnips and getting out of bed with ginger." After eating boiled turnips at night, he slept well and had a good morning bowel movement. Other people also decided to follow suit after hearing about it, which made a mistake of being in the past.
"Going to bed with turnips and getting out of bed with ginger" does not emphasize the need to eat turnips and ginger, but rather means maintaining a relaxed stomach and intestines before going to bed at night, and paying attention to preventing cold and keeping warm during the day. Turnips and ginger are only representative, and not everyone is suitable for this eating method.
Before going to bed, it's important to keep your stomach and intestines relaxed. If you eat vegetables for dinner and are half full, there's no need to add a carrot. The digestive benefits of radishes are important only for those who feel full after dinner. In fact, it may not necessarily be a radish, but all drugs that can digest can be used as long as they achieve the effect of emptying the gastrointestinal tract as much as possible. For people with insomnia, unless they are in the category of "upset stomach leads to restlessness" in traditional Chinese medicine, eating carrots can help them sleep. If they suffer from insomnia due to spleen deficiency and insufficient heart blood to nourish the mind, carrots can only help.
The same goes for eating ginger in the morning, just to prevent cold and keep warm. If you have a sore throat, dry stool, or heat inside, the ginger will stop. If you have a severe deficiency cold, sooner or later the radish should be replaced with ginger, otherwise it cannot improve the deficiency cold state. What this person needs is not the clearing of radishes, but the warming and nourishing of warm medicines and foods such as ginger.
"Going to bed with turnips and going to bed with ginger" emphasizes the method, not the specific prescription. As long as the purpose mentioned in the rational method can be achieved, the prescription can be changed, and can also vary from person to person.
For example, the most symptomatic medicine for colds and fevers is traditional Chinese medicine for relieving external symptoms, such as the "Ganmao Qingre Granule" containing schizonepeta and almonds. "But if you don't have it on hand, and you feel cold, sore, and have no sweat at all, you should take a western medicine containing aspirin. If you don't even have this, bring a cup of hot tea to soak in a sauna. As long as you can sweat, you can achieve the goal of treatment.". Zhang Xichun, a famous doctor who wrote "The Book of Medical Comprehension to the West", once used gypsum and aspirin to treat colds
