As early as the Tang Dynasty, the pharmacist Sun Simiao said that chestnuts are "the fruit of the kidney, kidney disease should be eaten. It is worth noting that he added in the "Thousand Golden Formula - food", "raw food, even the waist and feet do not attempt." Emphasized the use of "raw food".
Raw chestnuts have the effect of stopping bleeding
Beijing Nanyuan Hospital Wang Jue said, people in old age, due to the gradual decline of yang, not only will the waist and knees, limb pain, but also loosening of the teeth, fall out, these are the performance of the lack of kidney qi, when the start from the kidney, and early prevention, the consumption of raw chestnuts is one of the feasible methods.
One of the eight great Tang and Song dynasty Su Zhe, had composed a poem to explain himself in accordance with the "old recipe" to eat chestnuts, cure weak knees and waist: "The old since the addition of waist and leg disease, mountain Weng service chestnut old recipe, the guest said that the morning Xing evening, three pharyngeal Xu make-up white jade syrup." Su Zhe is to tell the old people how to eat chestnuts to tonify the kidneys of the scientific method: every morning and evening, the fresh chestnuts in the mouth to chew, until the mouth full of white pulp, and then slowly swallowed again and again, you can receive better tonic effect. Middle-aged and elderly people who have developed the habit of eating air-dried raw chestnuts 5 to 10 every morning and evening, you can achieve effective prevention and treatment of kidney deficiency, lumbago and leg pain. It is important to note that people with poor stomach and spleen should not eat more than 5.
In addition, raw chestnuts have the effect of stopping bleeding, can cure vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematemesis and other common bleeding disorders. The raw chestnut shell, mashed as mud, coated in the affected area can be treated bruises, bruises, swelling and pain, etc., Chinese medicine clinically proven to have a certain degree of efficacy.
The chestnut is sweet and warm, and can be fried or boiled, with the effect of stomach and spleen. Now because of the improvement of living conditions, parents of children's nutritional care is often too fine, strong food, partial food can lead to clinical evidence of children's spleen deficiency, the so-called "spleen deficiency" refers to the child's face, tiredness, fatigue, thin, anorexia or refusal to eat.
At this time, the chestnut kernel can be steamed and cooked, ground powder made of cakes, suitable for eating less, weak, often diarrhea children to increase their appetite, astringent diarrhea, regulating the stomach and intestines. Chestnut porridge with chestnuts and japonica rice is suitable for young and old, can be used for both spleen and stomach cold caused by chronic diarrhea patients recovery, but also suitable for long-term treatment of the elderly due to functional degradation caused by poor appetite, gas deficiency and weakness.
Recipes: chestnut stew chicken
In late fall and early winter, to provide you with a chestnut and chicken as the raw material of the lungs and kidneys two complementary recipes: chestnut stew chicken.
Ingredients: 10 fresh chestnuts, a chicken bone.
Practice: fresh chestnut shelling chestnut kernel spare, bone chicken hair, remove the viscera, wash and dry. The bone chicken, chestnut kernel into the sand pot, add water did not exceed the chicken and chestnut, put a piece of ginger into the water, cover the fire stew for 2 hours. Add a small amount of salt to the pot, it is best not to put monosodium glutamate (MSG), can be eaten.
Functions: chicken, sweet and flat, into the lungs and kidneys, nourishing yin and beneficial gas, can double complementary lungs and kidneys. Chestnut, tonic kidney and strong tendons.
The two foods are used together, according to the fall time to make up for the lungs, but also for the winter to make up for the kidney to get ready. (According to the Health Times)