Practice of air-drying chestnut
This kind of chestnut is relatively simple. Wash the chestnuts. Packed in ventilated bags and boxes, and placed in a dark and ventilated place. Turn it frequently to make the chestnut water evaporate evenly. When there is a gap between the chestnut shell and the chestnut kernel, it can sink with a gentle pinch, and the air-dried chestnuts are ready.
Because in the process of air drying, the moisture content decreases, and the proportion of sugar content in chestnut increases accordingly. At the same time, the starch in chestnut is gradually converted into sugar, which also makes chestnut sweeter and sweeter. So the biggest feature of this chestnut is that it tastes particularly sweet.
This air-dried chestnut is not only delicious, but also has great medicinal value.
Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Eating chestnuts raw can cure waist and feet." Emphasize the special usage of "eating chestnuts raw" to regulate waist and leg diseases.
Su Zhe, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote in a poem: "When you are old, you are ill with waist and foot. According to Li Laofang, guests wake up in the morning and collect white jade pulp after swallowing three times." It means eating raw chestnut, chewing slowly, and "chewing slowly white chalcedony" can achieve the effect of strengthening the body and bones and relieving waist and leg pain.
Bushen recipe: eat air-dried chestnuts every day
Please tell the old people at home that it is best to eat this dried chestnut raw on an empty stomach every morning and evening. You can't wolf it down. Dried chestnut kernels are a little hard. To chew slowly, it is best to chew 36 times, chew into pieces in your mouth, and then swallow slowly in three mouthfuls with saliva.
How much is appropriate to eat every day? About seven or eight to ten, depending on the individual's digestive ability, the degree is that you don't feel bloating after eating.
Kidney governs bone, and tonifying kidney is to replenish our bones. Chinese medicine believes that all seeds enter the kidney meridian, but some are diarrhea, while chestnuts are specially tonic rather than diarrhea.
The raw and cooked chestnuts are also very delicate. Raw chestnuts are slightly different from cooked chestnuts or fried chestnuts. Cooked chestnut not only tonifies the spleen and kidney, but also tends to tonify qi. Old people often have loose bowels, and eating cooked chestnuts can recuperate. Raw chestnuts can often supplement bones, treat waist and leg diseases or prevent teeth from loosening. Eating raw chestnuts has a good effect.
When people get old, they tend to be weak in waist and legs, which is the result of old age and physical decline. Such deficiency syndrome drugs are not effective and need to be fed slowly. Traditional Chinese medicine has a traditional prescription of nourishing food, which has a good effect on waist and leg diseases of the elderly. This ancient recipe is to eat air-dried chestnuts, seven a day.