South water chestnut is water chestnut, also known as water chestnut. Native to India. China is rich in horseshoes. It is big, thin and tender, full of water, sweet and slag-free, crisp and delicious, and can be used as both vegetables and fruits. Guangxi horseshoe has a long-standing reputation and is rich in nutrition, containing protein, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, quality, carotene and other elements; Horseshoe has great value in clearing away heat and moistening lung, promoting fluid production and resolving stagnation, soothing liver and improving eyesight, and benefiting qi and transforming qi. All kinds of good fruits in Lingnan have their own tastes, but they are edible when cooked raw and healthy, and the canned horseshoe tastes better when processed.

Horseshoe is a common name for water chestnut. According to the data, water chestnut has a long history as a medicine, among which "Diet Spectrum for Living with Interest" summarizes the health care function of water chestnut in only 26 words, namely: "Water chestnut is sweet and cold. Clearing away heat, promoting digestion, sobering up, treating diaphragm, killing malnutrition, melting copper, removing phlegm, relieving flatulence, treating dysentery and regulating collapse.

Modern scientific research also found that horseshoe is rich in starch, protein, crude fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B 1, B2, C and so on. It also contains water chestnut, an effective ingredient for anti-cancer and lowering blood pressure.

Chinese medicine often uses horseshoe to make "Xue Tang Tang" to clear away heat and phlegm, lower blood pressure and treat dry stool. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that drinking fresh horseshoe with reed root and fresh lotus root juice is an ideal drink for clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

Because of horseshoe cold, the weak and children with enuresis should avoid eating it. In addition, you should pay attention to hygiene when eating raw horseshoes, and wash them before eating, preferably scalded with boiling water. Horseshoe can also be used as medicine. Horseshoe is a kind of raw vegetable with edible and medicinal value, which was once a tribute of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Horseshoe is different, its meat is white and smooth, its water content is high, it is sweet and slag-free, crisp and delicious, and it is more delicious to fry it with chicken, duck, mushrooms and tremella in horseshoe cooked food.

Horseshoe has a good medical and health care effect, and its seedlings, roots and fruits can be used as medicine. According to the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Eleocharis tuberosa is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. It has the effects of warming the middle warmer, invigorating qi, clearing away heat, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion and resolving phlegm. Chinese medicine believes that water chestnut is sweet and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, promoting fluid production and appetizing, improving eyesight and clearing sound, promoting digestion and sobering up. Clinically, it can be used for fever, polydipsia, phlegm-heat cough, sore throat, dysuria, bloody stool, warts and other diseases.