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What is the efficacy and function of water chestnut?
1. Water chestnut is nutritious, rich in starch, protein, glucose, unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, easy to digest and absorb, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, tonifying kidney and nourishing blood.

Secondly, in Compendium of Materia Medica, it is said that eating water chestnut can tonify the spleen and stomach, strengthen the legs and knees, strengthen physical strength and benefit qi. Water chestnut porridge is beneficial to the gastrointestinal tract, which can relieve summer heat, eliminate diseases and strengthen the body. Eating water chestnut regularly is good for the elderly. Boiled beef with water chestnut has a good therapeutic effect on relieving neuralgia, headache, joint pain and lumbago and leg pain.

Third, eating water chestnut has the effect of beauty and health care. The ancients believed that eating more water chestnuts can tonify the five internal organs, eliminate all diseases and make people keep fit. The so-called intellectual fit bodybuilding has the function of losing weight and bodybuilding, because eating water chestnut can increase the satiety of the abdomen and is not easy to accumulate fat, so it is suitable for simple obese people to eat during weight loss.

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Matters needing attention in eating water chestnut

1. Water chestnut belongs to the fruit of aquatic plants, and it is in water during its growth, so it may contain parasites. Therefore, although you can eat it raw, you should not eat more to avoid infection with parasites.

2, water chestnut is a high starch food, should not eat more, so as not to cause obesity.

3. Water chestnut contains some exotic protein, which is an allergic substance. Therefore, people with allergies are not suitable for eating more, so as not to cause allergies.

People's Network-Water chestnut can strengthen the spleen, nourish the stomach and replenish blood.