Water chestnut is an annual herbaceous aquatic plant, also known as "peanuts in water". Its fruit "water chestnut" is a nut, and it hangs in the water under the dense leaves. Only when the whole plant is picked up and turned upside down can it be seen. Usually, after entering the spring of February, it is necessary to set up nursery land and intensively cultivate seedlings. After the first rice harvest from the end of May to the beginning of June, the paddy field will be prepared and ridged.
Water chestnut is blue, red and purple, with crispy skin and plenty of meat. It is a good fruit and can also be eaten. Generally eaten after cooking, or chopped into fine particles after drying, and porridge can also be eaten.
Water chestnut is rich in starch, protein, glucose, fat and various vitamins, such as vitamin B 1, B2, C, carotene and elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. The ancients believed that eating more water chestnuts can replenish the five internal organs, eliminate all diseases and make people keep fit. The so-called intellectual bodybuilding has the function of losing weight and bodybuilding, because water chestnut does not contain fat that makes people fat. Compendium of Materia Medica says: Water chestnut can tonify the spleen and stomach, strengthen the legs and knees, strengthen physical strength, and benefit qi. Water chestnut porridge is beneficial to the gastrointestinal tract and can relieve internal heat, which is good for the health of the elderly. Modern pharmacological experiments show that water chestnut has certain anti-cancer effect. Can be used for preventing and treating esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer. The method is to take 20 pieces of raw water chestnut meat, add appropriate amount of water and simmer it into thick soup, 1, three times a day; Or use 100 gram of water chestnut meat and add 30 grams of coix seed to cook porridge.