The water chestnut, also known as horseshoe, horseshoe, or horse's hoof, is native to India. It is a perennial herb that grows in paddy fields, and we eat the underground stems that are flat and round. In medicine, horseshoes also occupy a place. Horseshoes are sweet and cold in nature, into the lungs, stomach three meridians. It is effective in clearing the heart, moisturizing the lungs and cooling the liver, eliminating food and phlegm, diuretic and bright eyes. The green horseshoe stem seedlings, its medicinal name is called "Tongtian grass", cool and bitter, has a heat detoxification, tonic kidney diuretic effect.

Water chestnuts can be stir-fried with Dutch beans, or boiled in sugar water.

Horseshoe pear carrot sugar water practice:

1, horseshoe peeled and cut into pieces, pear, carrot cut into pieces.

2, add water to the pot to put the cut materials into the pot on high heat to boil, turn to medium-low heat half an hour can be.

3, like sweet can be appropriate to put sugar or rock sugar, nothing to put, feel also quite good

Water chestnut best with food

Water chestnut + lamb liver = water chestnut fried lamb liver

Water chestnut + rabbit = water chestnut burned rabbit

Water chestnut + mushrooms: water chestnut sweet and cold in nature, has the effect of clearing away heat, transforming phlegm, eliminating stagnation and so on; mushrooms can replenish the qi benefit stomach, Mushroom can nourish the stomach, nourish and strengthen the body, and has the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood fat. When eaten together, they can regulate the spleen and stomach, clear heat and promote the production of body fluid. Eating it regularly can nourish qi and strengthen the body, benefit the stomach, and help treat weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, or prolonged illnesses with spleen and stomach deficiency, dampness and heat and other diseases. Especially suitable for primary hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, cancer and diabetes and other diseases as an adjunct to the treatment of food.

Water chestnut + black fungus: black fungus can nourish the middle and benefit the qi, lower blood pressure, anti-cancer, with the heat to produce fluids, phlegm, eliminate the accumulation of water chestnut cooking, with the heat to remove phlegm, nourish Yin and produce fluids effect. For warm fever, dry mouth and thirst, chest fever, sore throat and damp-heat jaundice, cough and phlegm, liver fever, eye red, heart fire mouth sores and other patients have auxiliary therapeutic effect.

Water chestnut + ice chips: water chestnut can be anti-cancer, cooling liver, with ice chips, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial effect, the main treatment of women's nipple cracking pain.

Water chestnut + soybean milk: water chestnut and soybean milk with food, there are heat detoxification effect, the main treatment of blood in the stool.

Water chestnut + white wine: water chestnut is sweet and cold in nature, has the effect of clearing heat, phlegm, eliminating accumulation, etc., and white wine with food, can provide rich nutrients for the human body, the main treatment for women's hematochezia.