If the body is weak, such as frequent diarrhea, more thin people, try not to eat or eat less, to prevent aggravation of gastrointestinal diarrhea.

Horseshoes are cold in nature and have the effect of clearing away heat, cooling the blood and detoxifying the body, soothing the liver and clearing the eyes, and facilitating the passage of qi. If you boil water with horseshoes, it can be used to nourish Yin and moisten the lungs, produce fluids to quench thirst, clear away heat and detoxification, laxative and antibacterial effects. Horseshoes are rich in starch, protein, crude fat, calcium, iron, vitamin B and vitamin C and other nutrients, and horseshoes contain trace elements of phosphorus, is a root vegetable in the higher nutritional value, can promote human development and maintain the efficacy of physiological function.

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Horseshoes are best not eaten raw on a regular basis. If you eat raw horseshoes regularly, the ginger bugs in them will enter the body and attach to the intestinal mucosa, which can cause intestinal ulcers, diarrhea or facial swelling.

Selecting horseshoes to be a little larger, but also fresh, large water chestnuts preserved for a long time. The color reddish taste is a little better. Pinch up a little harder, the surface can not have broken. If the peeled water chestnut is yellow inside, it means the water chestnut is not fresh.

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