Water chestnut has the highest phosphorus content in root vegetables. Phosphorus can promote the growth and development of human body, even maintain the normal physiological function of human body, which is of great benefit to the development of teeth and bones. Even water chestnut can promote sugar and fat in human body and even protein, and can help people adjust acid-base balance, so it is very suitable for children to eat.
Through the study of water chestnut, it is found that there is an antibacterial component in water chestnut, that is, water chestnut, which can inhibit bacteria to a certain extent, and can also lower blood pressure if water chestnut is eaten properly at ordinary times. Therefore, if you can eat water chestnut properly at ordinary times, you can effectively prevent and reduce diseases and bring great benefits to human health.
Water chestnut belongs to cold food, so it has a good health care function of clearing away heat and toxic materials. In fact, it can not only clear away heat and promote fluid production, but also supplement nutrition, which is very suitable for patients with fever. Therefore, it has good effects of cooling blood and detoxicating, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, promoting digestion and reducing swelling. Especially in autumn and winter, if people who often eat hot pot, eating water chestnut properly can also play a good role in reducing fire.
Sweet and cold; It can clear away lung heat and is rich in mucus, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening lung, resolving phlegm, relaxing bowels, treating stranguria and diuresis, eliminating carbuncle and detoxicating, cooling blood and removing dampness, promoting digestion and reducing swelling. Therefore, it can be used to treat jaundice, red eyes and sore throat, short and red urine, exogenous wind-heat and lump accumulation. Water chestnut has a good effect of clearing heat and purging fire; It is used for cough due to lung heat, and it is difficult to cough with thick phlegm. Water chestnut juice 1 cup, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 1, 5g (ground into powder), taken evenly, 2-3 times a day.
To sum up, people all know that water chestnut can be eaten raw or cooked, but it is suggested that cooked water chestnut is healthier. Because water chestnut grows in the soil, there are many bacteria and parasites attached to the skin. If it is not cleaned, it will easily lead to disease. Moreover, water chestnut belongs to cold food, which is not suitable for people with spleen, kidney, cold and blood stasis, so as not to aggravate the condition and bring adverse effects to health.