Water chestnut is also called the ground pear or horseshoe, water chestnut can be used for direct consumption can also be used for cooking, we can use water chestnut to make a variety of dishes, the more common is the use of water chestnut to steam meat cake, water chestnut to make water chestnut branch bamboo stewed mutton brisket and water chestnut veggie assorted dishes, in addition to the water chestnut can be used to directly boil water to drink, and the efficacy of a very complete.

The water chestnut water can play the effect of detoxification and clearing heat, water chestnut water can reduce our blood pressure and have a good effect on constipation, water chestnut water has antibacterial effect and cool blood effect.

Water chestnut is cold in nature, it has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and promoting the production of body fluid, diuretic and laxative, removing dampness and expelling phlegm, eliminating food and removing flatulence, and it can be used for the treatment of jaundice, dysentery, polio, constipation, etc.; water chestnuts contain an anti-bacterial ingredient, which is effective in lowering the blood pressure, and it is also effective in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

Prevention of acute infectious diseases, clearing heat and fire, cool blood detoxification, diuretic laxative expectorant, elimination of food in addition to bloating, regulating hemorrhoids or dysentery blood in stool, women's disintegration, yin deficiency and lung dryness, phlegm and heat coughing, pharyngeal dissatisfaction, plaque buildup, red eye cataract, assist in reducing fever and other effects. In addition, water chestnut contains an antiviral substance can inhibit the brain flu, influenza virus, can be used to prevent the spread of brain flu and influenza.

Water chestnut is sweet, cold; can clear lung heat, and rich in mucus, have the production of fluids and moist lungs, phlegm and intestines, lymphatic and diuretic, carbuncle detoxification, cool the blood and dampness, eliminate food in addition to bloating; the main treatment of fever and thirst, jaundice, eye redness, sore throat, urine red hot and short, externally affected by the wind-heat, plagued with other diseases. Water chestnut has the good effect of clearing heat and diarrhea; applied to lung heat cough, phlegm thick and difficult to cough: 1 cup of water chestnut juice, 1.5 grams of Chuanbei (research into powder), mixing the service, 2 to 3 times a day. Both can clear the heat and produce fluids, but also supplemental nutrition, the most suitable for fever patients.