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The efficacy of water chestnut
Efficacy and function of water chestnut

1. Eleocharis tuberosa 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.

2. Water chestnut can replenish the spleen and stomach, strengthen the legs and knees, strengthen physical strength and replenish qi. Water chestnut porridge is beneficial to gastrointestinal tract, which can reduce fire, eliminate disease and strengthen body. It is beneficial for the elderly to eat regularly. Boiled beef with water chestnut has a good therapeutic effect on relieving neuralgia, headache, joint pain and lumbago and leg pain.

3. Water chestnut has the effect of beauty and health care, because eating water chestnut can increase abdominal satiety and is not easy to accumulate fat, which is suitable for simple obese people to eat during weight loss and is an auxiliary food for weight loss. 4. Water chestnut can relieve skin diseases and assist in the treatment of various skin diseases such as children's head sores, yellow sores on the head and face, and skin warts.

It also has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on dry skin and itching. Extended data:

1, anti-cancer, the alcohol soaking solution of water chestnut can inhibit the degeneration and tissue proliferation of cancer cells.

2. tonify spleen, invigorate qi and spleen, strengthen legs and knees, and strengthen tendons and qi. 3. Dry the water chestnut and grind it into powder, take it on an empty stomach 10g, and send it with old wine for red dysentery and rice soup for white dysentery to treat dysentery.

4. Rub the fresh rhombic pedicel (rhombic handle) on the affected area several times a day to treat warts (juvenile flat warts and multiple common warts). 5. 120g fresh water decoction of water chestnut stem (defoliated fibrous root) can cure children's head sore and hangover.

6, the old water chestnut coal exists, grinded into fine powder, and applied to the affected area with sesame oil to treat yellow sores on the head and face. 9. Water caltrop powder10-50g, with appropriate amount of sugar, and decocted in water into paste for eating.

Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, promoting salivation, quenching thirst, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, and relieving hangover. It is suitable for bitter taste, polydipsia and sore throat caused by alcoholism.

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

Advantages and disadvantages of water chestnut to human body

Water chestnut, sweet, astringent and cool;

1, anti-cancer, the alcohol soaking solution of water chestnut can inhibit the degeneration and tissue proliferation of cancer cells.

2. tonify spleen, invigorate qi and spleen, strengthen legs and knees, and strengthen tendons and qi.

3. Alleviate dermatoses and assist in the treatment of various dermatoses, such as children's head sores, head and face yellow sores and skin warts.

4, weight loss, water chestnut diuretic, lactation, detoxification, is an auxiliary food for weight loss.

5. Dry the water chestnut and grind it into powder, and take it on an empty stomach 10g. Send red dysentery with old wine and white dysentery with rice soup to treat dysentery.

6. Rub the fresh rhombic pedicel (rhombic handle) on the affected area several times a day to treat warts (juvenile verruca plana and multiple verruca vulgaris).

7. 120g fresh water decoction of water chestnut stem (defoliated fibrous root) can cure children's head sore and hangover.

8. Old water chestnut coal exists, grinded into fine powder, and applied with sesame oil to treat head and face yellow sores.

9. Water caltrop powder10-50g, with appropriate amount of sugar, and decocted in water into paste for eating. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, promoting salivation, quenching thirst, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, and relieving hangover. It is suitable for bitter taste, polydipsia and sore throat caused by alcoholism.

10, water decoction of water chestnut, terminalia chebula, coix lachryma, and wistaria tumor10g each, twice a day, used for treating esophageal cancer and gastric cancer.

1 1. Cook raw water chestnut meat into brown thick soup, and use 20-30 water chestnuts every day. The soup can be taken in 2-3 times, and can be used for treating uterine cancer and gastric cancer. According to Japanese reports, this prescription has been used for a long time and has often achieved results.

12, water chestnut porridge: 100 grams of rice, cook porridge, until it is half cooked, add 30-60 grams of water chestnut powder, cook together, and add appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste. Has effect in invigorating spleen, regulate stomach, invigorating qi and preventing cancer. Suitable for chronic diarrhea, malnutrition, the elderly and the weak. Can be used for preventing and treating gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and uterine cancer.

The disadvantage is that eating raw will hurt the spleen and stomach. Pay attention to ginger slices.

What are the benefits of eating water chestnut?

Water chestnut is also called water chestnut for its nutrition and dietotherapy.

It is an aquatic plant of Trapaceae. Its flesh is edible, its tender stems can be used as vegetables, and its fruit has horns, commonly known as water chestnut.

[Ingredients] Every100g edible part contains 3.6g of protein, 0.5g of fat, 24g of carbohydrate, 9mg of calcium, 49mg of phosphorus, 0.7mg of iron, vitamins B and C, etc. 【 Sexual taste and meridian tropism 】 It is sweet, flat and non-toxic.

【 Efficacy 】 It has the functions of abstinence from alcohol, hangover, diuresis and lactation. In recent years, people began to try to use it to treat esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, and achieved certain results. Can also strengthen the spleen and strengthen the body.

[Dietotherapy method 1] Wash fresh water chestnut 1000g (with shell) and decoct in water. When it is slightly warm, take it twice in the morning for 3 days, and then take it 1 time every week for 5-6 times, which can treat upper, middle and lower levels of diabetes. If you are too weak, you can eat it seven times, and there is no sugar in your urine. If there is, you can shoot it twice.

The body is very weak. After taking 8~9 times, if the spirit is exhausted, you must eat 250 grams of sugar cubes, otherwise it will be morbid. This recipe has cured many people.

[Dietotherapy Method 2] Hook meat, lotus seeds, yam, Euryale ferox, lotus root, fern, lily, etc. When cooked or ground and steamed, it can cure chronic intestinal inflammation. [Dietotherapy 3] Headache in children can be cured by decocting fresh water with 60 ~ 125g water.

[Dietotherapy Method 4] Warts grow on the skin (commonly known as warts, also known as papules, or boils). Take fresh pedicels (handles) and rub them on the affected area for 3 to 5 times a day, and the warts will fall off. [Method 5] Esophageal cancer can be cured by taking 9 grams of water chestnut, 9 grams of wisteria tumor, 9 grams of terminalia chebula and 9 grams of coix seed twice a day.

[Dietotherapy Method 6] Wild water chestnut 60 ~ 125g (cut into pieces with shells) and coix seed 15 ~ 30g are boiled into thick juice twice a day, and 1 month is a course of treatment, which can inhibit the development of cancer cells such as gastrointestinal cancer and cervical cancer. [Dietotherapy Method 7] Water chestnut, 5~6 tablets at a time, can cure various cancers.

[Dietotherapy method 8] 20 raw water chestnut meat, add appropriate amount of water and simmer into thick soup, 1, taken three times a day; Can be used for preventing and treating esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer. [Dietotherapy Method 9] Use 100g water chestnut meat, add 30g coix seed and cook it into porridge.

Can be used for preventing and treating esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer.

What are the benefits of eating water chestnut for people?

It was called "water chestnut" in ancient times, also known as water chestnut and sand horn. It is an aquatic plant, belonging to Trapaceae or Lysimachiaceae. It is one of the famous native products in China, and has been cultivated for more than 3000 years. The common varieties are Yuanbaoling, Heshangling, Lanjiaoling, Bailing, Hongling and Wuling. Water chestnut meat is thick and sweet, suitable for all ages, raw and cooked, as good as chestnut. Raw food can be used as fruit, and cooked food can replace grain. The nutritional value of water chestnut is comparable to that of chestnut. Every100g of fresh water chestnut meat contains 3.6g of protein, 0.5g of fat and 24g of sugar. It also contains niacin, riboflavin, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, and contains a variety of amino acids. It is regarded as the fruit of health preservation and a good medicinal diet for autumn tonic.

Eleocharis tuberosa is a kind of cold food, which can help to disinfect the stomach and reduce fever. Chinese medicine believes that eating water chestnut can "replenish the five internal organs, not hungry but intellectual man fit". Ancient people thought that eating water chestnut can strengthen the body, that is, water chestnut has the function of losing weight and bodybuilding, which may be related to the fact that water chestnut does not contain fat that makes people fat in the world. Water chestnut also has many medicinal functions. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: Eating water chestnut can "replenish the spleen and stomach, strengthen the legs and knees, strengthen physical strength and benefit qi", and said that "water chestnut porridge benefits the stomach and relieves internal heat." It is beneficial for the elderly to eat regularly. Eating in summer also has the effects of "flowing water, removing summer heat and detoxifying".

Water chestnut is also an anticancer medicinal food. According to modern pharmacological experiments, water chestnut has a miraculous effect of preventing cancer. ——WTTC (9 g of Coix seed, 9 g of wisteria, 9 g of terminalia chebula, 60 g of decoction) is made from water chestnut in Japan. In recent years, some people use the fruit of water chestnut as an adjuvant treatment for esophageal cancer, breast cancer and uterine cancer. The research results of experts and scholars in Taiwan Province Province show that the main reason why Eleocharis tuberosa has anti-cancer effect is that it contains an anti-cancer substance called AH- 13, which obviously inhibits the degeneration and tissue proliferation of ascites cancer cells.

The use of eating water chestnut

The nutritional value of water chestnut is similar to that of chestnut, and it is rich in starch, glucose, protein, vitamins B and C, water chestnut, β-sitosterol, calcium, phosphorus and iron.

There are many kinds of water chestnut, such as water chestnut, Hong Ling, green chestnut, wild chestnut with four corners, and hornless wonton chestnut. Water chestnut has high nutritional value, including protein 3.6 g, vitamin 0.6 g, fat 0.5 g, phosphorus 0.49 g, calcium 0.9 g, iron 0.027 g, carotene 0.0 1 g, etc. Eleocharis tuberosa also has medicinal value, that is, relieving diarrhea, quenching thirst, invigorating spleen, relieving alcoholism, relieving middle warmer, treating lumbago, aching bones and muscles, and having certain anticancer effect. ..

Water chestnut is a kind of food with high carbohydrate (34.6%) and low fat (only 0.2%). It is rich in vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other substances, and its nutritional value can be comparable to other nuts.

Water chestnut is blue, red and purple, with crispy skin and plenty of meat. It is a good fruit and can also be eaten. Generally eaten after cooking, or chopped into fine particles after drying, and porridge can also be eaten.

After beginning of autumn, it was the season when water chestnut was listed in large quantities. According to Professor Chen Ruifang, director of the Health Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, water chestnut has the functions of clearing away lung-heat, relieving restlessness, invigorating spleen and benefiting stomach. The ancients believed that eating more water chestnuts can replenish the five internal organs, eliminate all diseases and "lighten the body."

From the perspective of modern nutrition, water chestnut does not contain fat that is easy to make people fat, so it really makes sense to be regarded as a diet and bodybuilding food. Water chestnut is also rich in protein, glucose, fat, vitamins, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements, which has a certain anti-cancer effect. Proper consumption helps to prevent and treat esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and uterine cancer.

Food recommendation: Stewed spine with horseshoe and chicken feet.

Materials: 20 horseshoes, chicken feet 10, and pig spine 400g.

Practice: First, wash the pig spine and chicken feet, blanch them in boiling water, put them in a casserole together with the shelled horseshoes, add 2500ml of water, cook them with strong fire for 20 minutes, then cook them with low fire for 40 minutes, and then season them.

Efficacy: This soup has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, relieving annoyance and benefiting stomach.

Efficacy and function of dried water chestnut

First, the nutritional value of water chestnut:

The nutritional value of water chestnut is comparable to that of chestnut. Every100g of fresh water chestnut meat contains 3.6g of protein, 0.5g of fat and 24g of sugar. It also contains niacin, riboflavin, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, and contains a variety of amino acids. It is regarded as the fruit of health preservation and a good medicinal diet for autumn tonic.

Second, the efficacy and role of water chestnut:

1, Eleocharis tuberosa is a cold food, which can help to disinfect the stomach and reduce fever. Chinese medicine believes that eating water chestnut can "replenish the five internal organs, not hungry but intellectual man fit". Ancient people thought that eating water chestnut could strengthen the body and reduce weight.

2, eating water chestnut has the effect of diuresis and lactation, quenching thirst and hangover. If you decoct with clear water, you can relieve the hangover.

3, water chestnut can tonify the spleen and stomach, strengthen the knees, strengthen the tendons and replenish qi, water chestnut porridge is beneficial to the gastrointestinal tract, can relieve internal heat, dispel diseases and strengthen the body, and the elderly often eat it for health. Boiled beef with water chestnut has a good therapeutic effect on relieving neuralgia, headache, joint pain and lumbago and leg pain.