China's folk with chestnut nourishment, treatment of disease in many ways. Pharmacist Sun Simiao emphasized the use of "raw food". Middle-aged and elderly people if you get into the habit of eating air-dried raw chestnuts every day, can achieve effective prevention and treatment of kidney deficiency, back pain and leg pain.
It is recommended that the elderly eat three or four raw chestnuts every morning and evening. Put the chestnut in the mouth to chew carefully, to the taste of no slag to become pulp, a little swallowed, can maximize the health effect.
Cooked chestnuts can harmonize the stomach and strengthen the spleen and relieve spleen deficiency. Steaming chestnut kernels, grinding powder, made of cakes, suitable for children with little diet and weak body to increase appetite and regulate the stomach and intestines. Chestnut and round-grained rice porridge, both conducive to the spleen and stomach cold due to chronic diarrhea patients early recovery, but also the elderly dyspepsia, qi deficiency and fatigue of the therapeutic recipe. If you buy fried chestnuts, eat 7-10 a day, preferably between meals as a snack. Otherwise, eat too much raw, difficult to digest, cooked too much, easy to block the stomach and intestines, not more than 10 per day. Chestnuts to pick the shell intact, natural color, not particularly shiny. Moldy old chestnuts do not eat, easy to cause food poisoning. Because of the high sugar content, diabetic patients are best to chestnuts "far away". Serious fire, fever, food stagnation, epigastric distension should not eat more.