Water chestnut, also known as water chestnut, wind chestnut, black chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut and water chestnut, is an annual aquatic herb in the genus Trapa. Originated in Europe, south of China, especially in the Taihu Lake area in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta. Water chestnut meat contains 24% starch, 3.6% protein and 0.5% fat. When it is young, it can be eaten raw as fruit. When it is ripe, it can be cooked or processed into water chestnut powder. When it is air-dried, it can be stored to extend the supply. Water chestnut leaves can be used as green feed or green manure. Helps strengthen the stomach, stop dysentery and fight cancer. Helps treat gastric ulcer, dysentery, esophageal cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer. Rhomboid handle is used externally to treat multiple verruca of skin; The burnt ash of rhombic shell is used for external treatment of impetigo and hemorrhoids.
Basic information
Chinese name
water caltrop
foreign name
Water chestnut
another name
Water chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut, water chestnut and water chestnut.
Latin scientific name
Trapa bispinosa Roxb.
spell
líng jiǎo
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morphological character
Water chestnut, also called water chestnut. The two horns are diamonds, which are shaped like horns. The triangle and the four corners are cockroaches. Growing in a lake. Water chestnut grows most easily when it falls in the mud. There are wild ling and home ling, both of which were born in March and spread long. Leaves floating on water are flat and sharp, very smooth, and there are stems under them. Small white flowers bloom in May and June, open at night, close during the day, and move with the moon. There are several kinds of fruits: no horns, two horns, triangle and four horns. There are thorns in the corners, which are thin and brittle and grow at the corners. An aquatic plant. Annual floating or semi-standing aquatic plants. Root type II: iron wire-shaped, embedded in bottom mud, assimilating roots, pinnately fissured, filiform lobes, light green or dark reddish brown. Stems are cylindrical, slender or stubby. Leaf type II: floating leaf alternate, clustered at the stem tip, forming a rosette-shaped rhombus on the water surface.
water caltrop
water caltrop
leaf
Water chestnut leaf
Water chestnut leaf
The leaves are broadly rhombic, 3-4.5 cm long and 4-6 cm wide, with dark bright green surface, hairless, green or purplish red on the back, densely covered with fawn short hairs (young leaves) or grayish brown short hairs (old leaves), and the middle and upper parts of the edges have