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. Compendium of Materia Medica says: 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 and can relieve internal heat, which is good for the health of the elderly. Modern pharmacological experiments show that water chestnut has certain anti-cancer effect. Can be used for preventing and treating esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer. The method is to use 20 raw water chestnuts, add appropriate amount of water and use 1 slow fire three times a day. Or use 100 gram of water chestnut meat and add 30 grams of coix seed to cook porridge.

The pulp of water chestnut is edible, the tender stem can be used as a vegetable, and the fruit has sharp horns, commonly known as water chestnut.

The water chestnut vines that grow in the lake have green leaves, and the shape of the leaves is diamond, so the fruit is called water chestnut. The stems are purplish red and the flowers are bright yellow. Water chestnut is an annual herbaceous aquatic plant, also known as "peanuts in water". The fruit "water chestnut" is a nut, which hangs in the water under the dense leaves and must be picked up and turned upside down to see it. After autumn, the fruit becomes hard. If wild water chestnut is not picked, it will gradually fall off the stem and sink to the bottom of the water, and germinate the next year. Usually, after entering the spring of February, it is necessary to set up nursery land and intensively cultivate seedlings. After the first rice harvest from the end of May to the beginning of June in early summer, the paddy field was prepared and ridged, water was diverted into the field, and water chestnut seedlings were transplanted.

There are many kinds of water chestnuts, the artificially cultivated ones can be the size of matchboxes, the wild ones are smaller, and the small ones are only the size of fingernails. There are cyan, red and purple, and the skin is crispy and the meat is beautiful. It is a good fruit and can also be used as food. Generally eaten after cooking, or chopped into fine particles after drying, and porridge can also be eaten.

Main efficacy

Suitable for people: the general population can eat it.

Dietotherapy effect: water chestnut tastes sweet, astringent and cool;

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1. tonify spleen and qi, strengthen legs and knees, and strengthen tendons and qi.

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

3. Weight loss, water chestnut diuresis, lactation and detoxification are auxiliary foods for weight loss.

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

In addition, water chestnut can appease the desires of men and women. "Herbal Medicine" points out: "The fruit in the water has the most air-conditioning. If it is refrigerated, it will damage the yang and make the jade stem decline."

Water chestnut is good for the elderly. Modern pharmacological experiments show that water chestnut has certain anti-cancer effect. Can be used for preventing and treating esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer.

Edible suggestion

Try not to eat water chestnut, water chestnut and lotus root raw, and don't chew the skin with your teeth. Be sure to wash it raw, soak it in boiling water for a few minutes or dry it for a day before eating. Pay attention to hygiene, don't drink raw water, wash your hands when touching aquatic plants or sewage to prevent metacercariae pollution.

1. Eating too much fresh fruit is easy to damage the spleen and stomach, and it should be cooked before eating.

2. Water chestnut porridge is beneficial to the gastrointestinal tract and can relieve internal heat. [2]

Medicinal value of water chestnut

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.

Edible taboo

Although water chestnut has great medicinal value, we should be careful not to overdo it or cook it with pork, which may cause abdominal pain.

Autumn is the picking season for water chestnut and water chestnut. They are just fresh and tender, and I can't help eating them. At this time, it is very likely that it is infected with ginger worms parasitic on water chestnut and water chestnut. Fasciola zingiberensis is parasitic in human small intestine, which can cause digestive tract and systemic symptoms, such as abdominal pain, abdominal distension and diarrhea. In severe cases, anemia, edema and developmental disorders may occur.

50 ~ 80 grams each time. Ling is eaten raw, tender ling is the top grade, and the quality is fresh and cool; Cooked food is better than Laoling, and the meat is as white as jade.