Water chestnut can be used as both fruit and vegetable, which is a popular seasonal food, and Chinese medicine also uses water chestnut as Chinese medicine.
Modern science believes that the content of phosphorus in water chestnut is the highest among all kinds of foods, so it can promote the growth and development of human body and maintain certain physiological functions, especially for the development of bones and teeth. Chinese medicine believes that water chestnut is a very good medicine for clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, cooling blood, detoxifying and relaxing bowels.
What are the effects of water chestnut?
1, promoting fluid production to quench thirst
Eleocharis tuberosa is white and tender, sweet and juicy, and rich in mucus. It has the function of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and can help clear the boredom in the chest and relieve the thirst caused by fever, body fluid injury and thirst.
2. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm
Water chestnut is cold, which can clear away lung heat. In addition, water chestnut is rich in water and mucus, which can moisten lung and eliminate phlegm. It can be used for cough due to lung heat due to yin deficiency, vomiting yellow sticky pus and phlegm, body fluid injury due to fever, hot air in liver and lung, red eyes, dry mouth and nose fever. Drinking fresh water chestnut juice can get the effect of moistening throat and clearing heat.
3. Treat diarrhea
Diarrhea is easy to occur in hot summer, so drinking water chestnut juice, or adding fresh lotus root juice and pear juice can get the effect of adjuvant treatment.
4, diuretic detoxification
Drinking water with water chestnut decoction can induce diuresis and expel stranguria, and it can relieve urination and astringent pain to some extent, so it can be used as diet food for patients with urinary tract infection. Moreover, water chestnut is cold and slippery, and has the functions of diuresis, cooling blood and detoxification.
Small method of dietotherapy: water chestnut pear juice
Ingredients:100g water chestnut,100g pear;
Practice: peel the water chestnut, wash it, and then cut it into pieces; Peel and stone pears, cut them into small pieces, then put them together in a juicer, add appropriate amount of water and beat them into a thin paste.
Efficacy: It has the effects of quenching thirst and detoxicating, clearing away heat and diminishing inflammation, and has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on dry and itchy throat, sore throat, polydipsia and cough.