Can be used as medicinal materials. It has a certain effect on clearing away heat and toxic materials, and the most important thing is that it can lower blood pressure, so it has become the gospel of patients with hypertension. There is an old saying that everything is the same. Eating too much will lose its original value and bring discomfort and even harm to the body. Phosphorus in water chestnut is beneficial to the growth and development of human body. It is beneficial to the development of teeth and bones, promotes the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein, and regulates the acid-base balance, so it is very suitable for children to eat.
Water chestnut can prevent acute infectious diseases, measles and meningitis. Water chestnut is cold, which can clear away heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst. People with fever can also play the role of cooling blood, detoxifying, relaxing bowels, resolving phlegm and promoting digestion. It contains a lot of phosphorus, which is a necessity for human growth and maintenance of physiological functions. It is also good for the development of teeth and bone collaterals, and can also adjust the acid-base balance.
You should choose the one with a flat body, a big head, short buds on the top of the head and brown skin. But the round body called water horseshoe is cooked more often than black starch, and raw food with residue is not sweet. It should be ground into horseshoe powder or cooked with carrots, bamboo poles and horseshoe water that children often drink to clear away heat. Peeling may take longer than eating. It is unsanitary to let others cut it, and I dare not eat it raw when I come back, so I have always been not very enthusiastic about water chestnut. This time, I listened to my friend and prepared to eat water chestnut for a week. I have just eaten for two days, and I feel that my cough is much better and my sputum is less.