The water chestnut, because it is shaped like a horseshoe, is commonly known as the horseshoe. It is also known as groundnut because it is fruiting in the mud and shaped like a chestnut.
Water chestnut can not only promote human metabolism, but also has certain anti-bacterial effect. The phosphorus content in water chestnut is the highest among all stem vegetables. Phosphorus can promote human development, and at the same time can promote the metabolism of three major substances in the body, namely sugar, fat and protein, and regulate the acid-base balance. Scientists have also found an antibacterial ingredient, water chestnut Ying, in their research on water chestnuts. It has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Coupled with its rich nutrients and unique flavor, it is indeed a rare food.
Water chestnut is cold in nature, it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling the blood and promoting the production of body fluid, diuretic and laxative, resolving dampness and expelling phlegm, eliminating food and removing flatulence, and it can be used to treat jaundice, dysentery, polio, constipation, etc.; water chestnuts contain an antibacterial ingredient, which is effective in lowering the blood pressure, and the substance also has a preventive and curative effect on cancer.
Guangzhou First People's Hospital Nansha Hospital, deputy director of the Chinese medicine department of traditional Chinese medicine, said Tang Liang, horseshoes taste sweet, cold; there is a clearing of heat to quench thirst, diuretic phlegm, eliminating the effects of food. Suitable for heat illness, injury and thirst, sore throat, lung heat cough, oral inflammation ulcers, constipation, bleeding hemorrhoids. In the spring of the high incidence of acute infectious diseases, eat some water chestnuts in moderation and the prevention of infectious diseases.
Nutritionally speaking, water chestnut contains protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium. It can be used for cooking and can be made into starch. Water chestnut is high in phosphorus, can promote human growth and development and maintain physiological function needs, the development of teeth and bones have great benefits, suitable for children to eat.
Water chestnuts are suitable for eating raw, because after cooking water chestnuts, it is easy to cause the loss of nutrients, but when you eat raw, you must remove the bud eyes and the outer skin thoroughly, otherwise be careful to infect the ginger bug. Water chestnut is cold in nature and is cold food, not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach and loose stools.
Effects: Clearing heat and reducing fire, generating fluids and quenching thirst. It is suitable for sore throat, dry cough with little phlegm, feverish thirst, yellowish red urine, constipation after tumor radiotherapy.
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