Efficacy of cooked chestnut: it can harmonize stomach and spleen, and relieve spleen deficiency. Chestnut kernels are steamed and ground into cakes, which are suitable for children with little diet and weak body to increase their appetite and regulate their intestines and stomach.

Efficacy of raw chestnuts: raw chestnuts have the effect of stopping bleeding, and can cure common bleeding such as vomiting blood, epistaxis and hematochezia. Shelling raw chestnut, mashing it into mud, and applying it to the affected area can cure traumatic injury, congestion, swelling and pain. It has been proved to have a certain curative effect in TCM clinic.

There are many ways to nourish and treat chestnuts. If middle-aged and elderly people develop the habit of eating air-dried raw chestnuts every day, they can effectively prevent kidney deficiency, backache and leg pain. Eat raw, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold can't eat, others should chew slowly when eating, that is, "swallow white jade pulp three times and swallow slowly." It is suggested that middle-aged and elderly people eat three or four raw chestnuts every morning and evening. Chewing chestnuts in your mouth until the taste is no residue and you can swallow them bit by bit, which can give full play to the health care function.

2, cooked chestnut can strengthen the stomach and spleen, and relieve spleen deficiency. Chestnut kernels are steamed and ground into cakes, which are suitable for children with little diet and weak body to increase their appetite and regulate their intestines and stomach. Cooking porridge with chestnut and japonica rice is not only beneficial to the early recovery of patients with chronic diarrhea caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, but also a dietotherapy remedy for indigestion and deficiency and fatigue of qi in the elderly.

3. Although chestnut is rich in nutrition and has the dietotherapy effect of tonifying kidney and strengthening body, it is not suitable to eat more. "Chestnuts are not easy to digest when eaten raw, but they are easy to stagnate when cooked, so you can't eat more." Experts said. Chestnut has a high starch content, so it is best for the elderly and children with poor digestive function to eat less. When chestnut is cold, starch will age, so it is not easy to absorb, so try to eat chestnut while it is hot. In addition, diabetics, constipation patients and parturients should not eat more chestnuts.

4, do not exceed 10 at a time, it is best to eat as a snack between meals. After eating, the amount of staple food should be reduced accordingly. In addition, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and indigestion should not eat more, let alone eat raw. Because chestnuts are high in calories and the sugar content of sugar-fried chestnuts is higher, diabetic patients should pay more attention when eating chestnuts, so as not to affect the stability of blood sugar. In addition, chestnuts, whether eaten raw or cooked, need to be chewed carefully to achieve better nourishing effect.