Compendium of Materia Medica: "Chestnuts are sweet and warm, and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians." "Chestnut can cure kidney deficiency and weakness of waist and legs, and can tonify kidney and stomach." Now nutrition points out that chestnut is a dried fruit variety with high carbohydrate content, which can supply more heat energy to human body and help fat metabolism. Ensuring the supply of basic nutrients to the body is called "hardcore crop" and "woody food". Therefore, chestnuts have the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.

2. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases

Chestnut contains a lot of nutrients such as starch, protein, fat and B vitamins, and is known as the "king of dried fruits", which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and is beneficial to human health. Raw chestnuts are mashed into mud and applied to the affected area, which can cure traumatic injury, swelling and pain of bones and muscles, and have the functions of relieving pain, stopping bleeding and absorbing sepsis.

3, strong bones and muscles, delay aging

Chestnut is rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles, and prevent and treat osteoporosis, waist and leg pain, muscle pain and fatigue. , delay human aging. It is an ideal health fruit for the elderly. Eating chestnuts raw often also has the effect of treating waist and leg pain, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.

4. Yiqi Jianpi

Chestnut with strong stomach and thick intestines is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content, which can provide more heat energy for human body and help fat metabolism. Ensuring the supply of basic nutrients to the body is known as "hard-core crops" and "woody food", which has the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.

Because chestnuts have many functions and are good for people's health, chestnuts will be regarded as "health stars" in the United States.