During the winter and spring seasons, in the south of China, there are often vendors who sell water chestnuts as snacks after peeling them and stringing them up on bamboo sticks. Buy a string and taste it, it is really refreshing and sweet, the flavor is not bad. So today's Chinese medicine knowledge we will talk about water chestnut.

Water chestnut, commonly known as "horseshoe". Eaten raw, mellow sweet and fragrant, like autumn pear; cooked, can be cooked into a variety of delicious dishes. According to Chinese medicine, water chestnut is a cold food, with the benefit of qi Anzhong, clearing heat to quench thirst, appetizer digestion, sharp throat and eyesight, dampness and phlegm effect. Consumption of water chestnut can not only clear the heat and promote the production of fluids, but also to supplement the nutrition, patients with fever can eat more. China's Qing Dynasty famous warm disease scholar Wu Jutong treatment of fever and injury to the thirst of the famous formula five juice drink, is the use of water chestnut, pear, lotus root, rehmannia and maitake juice with the combination of. In hu