Can you eat chestnut with loose bowels?
Chestnut, known as the "king of dried fruits", tastes sweet and belongs to the first-class fruit for invigorating stomach and kidney and prolonging life.
Traditional medicine believes that chestnut is sweet and salty, warm in nature, and enters the kidney, spleen and stomach, so it has the nourishing effects of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the tendons, which can be comparable to ginseng, astragalus and angelica. It can also be used for treating soreness of waist and feet, nausea, hematemesis and hematochezia.
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a book that chestnuts are "the fruit of kidney, which should be taken by people with kidney disease", so they have a good effect on kidney deficiency.
Chestnut is mainly composed of carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, unsaturated fatty acids and starch. It has the effects of resisting hypertension, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis, and is a nourishing product for resisting aging and prolonging life.
Chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, and diabetics can also taste them in moderation. But chestnuts are hard to digest when eaten raw, and cooked food is easy to lag behind. Eating too much at a time will hurt the spleen and stomach, and eat at most 10 a day. It is best to treat chestnuts as snacks between meals, or eat them during meals, rather than eating them in large quantities after meals, so as not to consume too many calories, which is not conducive to maintaining weight.
Chestnut has astringent effect, and also has a good effect on chronic diarrhea caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach. Chestnut is mainly composed of starch, but it has a certain fat content. It can be eaten in a small amount when diarrhea occurs, and it is not advisable to eat more chestnut.
How to eat chestnuts
There are many ways to eat chestnuts, which can be used to make soup with water, and to treat limb weakness after illness; Can be eaten with chestnut porridge and white sugar, and has the effect of tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons; You can eat a few air-dried chestnuts every morning and evening, or simmer cooked food with fresh chestnuts for the elderly with kidney deficiency. When traumatic injury, congestion, swelling and pain occur, raw chestnut meat can be ground into mud and applied to the affected area.
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Cook porridge with 50 grams of chestnut and 0/00 grams of japonica rice/kloc.
Chestnut can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach with japonica rice, stimulate appetite, but also tonify the kidney and strengthen bones and muscles, which is especially suitable for the loss of appetite, weak waist and knees and stumbling caused by functional degradation of the elderly.
Wuji chestnut tonic soup
Use black-bone chicken 1, chestnut 200g, jujube 15, proper amount of Lycium barbarum, ginger 1. Cut the black-bone chicken into pieces, put it in cold water, and take it out after the water boils. Add half a pot of hot water to the casserole, add blanched black-bone chicken, add ginger slices, boil over high fire and simmer gently. Stew the black-bone chicken for half an hour and then add chestnuts. After stewing for half an hour, add red dates and medlar (soak in warm water for a while), stew for another half an hour or so, and finally add salt.
Wuji Chestnut Nourishing Decoction is suitable for people with physical deficiency and blood deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency and spleen and stomach weakness.