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Raw water chestnut has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, while cooked food has the effect of benefiting qi and strengthening spleen.

Fight cancer

Water chestnut can also play the role of "strengthening the spleen, relieving alcoholism and harmonizing the middle". Folk remedies also use it to treat cancer. Modern research data show that the alcohol soaking solution of water chestnut has anti-cancer effect.

lose weight

Water chestnut has the functions of diuresis, promoting lactation, quenching thirst, relieving alcoholism, attending sores and warts, and strengthening the body. It is an auxiliary food for losing weight.

Relieve dermatosis

Water chestnut can be eaten or applied externally, and can be used as an auxiliary treatment for various skin diseases such as head sore, yellow water sore on the head and face, and skin wart.

Nutritional value of water chestnut

Water chestnut is rich in starch, protein, glucose, unsaturated fatty acids and various vitamins, such as vitamin B 1, B2, C, carotene and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. The ancients believed that eating more water chestnuts can replenish the five internal organs, eliminate all diseases and make people keep fit. The so-called intellectual bodybuilding has the function of losing weight and bodybuilding, because water chestnut does not contain fat that makes people fat.