Water chestnut

Horseshoe is an ingredient similar in appearance to horseshoe, also known as water chestnut. Horseshoe is a plant of the Salix family and the water chestnut genus, and is one of China's specialty vegetables. Usually the underground bulb for food, can be eaten raw, cooked or cooking, especially suitable for making canned food, known as "clear water horseshoe", is one of the main ingredients of the restaurant. And can be extracted starch, and lotus root and diamond powder called starch three kui.

Horseshoes have a purple-black skin like chestnuts, peeled meat white as snow, and the water is rich in taste crisp and sweet, because of this there is also "underground snow pear" reputation. Fantastic is the horseshoe can be used as a fruit to eat raw, but also as a vegetable for processing cooking, in addition to the use of horseshoe medicine can also treat a lot of gastrointestinal diseases.

As a perennial herb, horseshoe, the original origin is India, but later introduced to Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and other areas of the southern region of abundant water, so the northern people are not very familiar with the horseshoe.

The efficacy and role of the horseshoe

1. Promote growth and development

Can promote the human body's growth and maintenance of physiological functions of the needs of the teeth and bones of the development of the body has a great deal of good, while promoting the body's metabolism of the three major substances of sugar, fat and protein. Regulate the acid-base balance, so water chestnut is suitable for children to eat.

2. Lowering blood pressure

It has a certain effect on lowering blood pressure, and also has a preventive effect on cancer.

3. rectify the bowel

Horseshoes contain some crude protein and starch, these substances can promote intestinal peristalsis, which can eliminate the accumulation of food in the body faster and help defecation. It also has the efficacy of generating fluids and quenching thirst, transforming phlegm and moistening the lungs. The use of water boiled with horseshoes can also diuretic drainage, very suitable for patients with urinary tract infections.

4. elimination of heat and detoxification

Horseshoes are cold food, have a good effect of clearing heat and fire. It can not only clear the heat and produce fluids, but also supplement the nutrition, and it is most suitable for patients with fever. It has the efficacy of cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, diuretic and laxative, resolving dampness and expelling phlegm, eliminating food and removing flatulence.

5. Lowering blood pressure and preventing diseases

Horseshoes contain a heat-resistant antimicrobial substance, water chestnut Ying, which has a certain inhibitory effect on certain harmful strains of bacteria, and it also has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Water chestnut Ying can prevent cancer in the lungs, esophagus, and mammary glands. Horseshoes can also prevent some diseases, especially during the epidemic period of the disease, eating more is good for the body.

How to make water chestnut

The tender pods of Dutch beans are crispy and fragrant, with high nutritional value, and can play the role of maternal lactation.

Ingredients:

300 grams of water chestnuts, 50 grams of Dutch beans, fungus (water), 30 grams of red pepper, water starch, salt, 1 gram of sugar, 10 milliliters of soybean oil, sesame oil.

Practice

1, water chestnuts peeled and sliced, blanched with boiling water and cooled standby. The fungus with water to send a good standby.

2, the Dutch beans to remove the old tendons and wash also blanched, cool spare.

3, frying pan oil burst incense onion ginger, pour in water chestnuts stir fry for a moment.

4, add fungus continue to stir fry, add sugar and salt, add soy sauce.

5, pour in the Dutch beans and red pepper continue to stir fry, dripping water starch and sesame oil stir fry evenly off the fire.

Tips:

1, Dutch beans can improve the body's immunity, improve the body's ability to resist disease and recovery.

2, Dutch beans are suitable for diabetic patients, postpartum breast milk is not good for women to eat, at the same time can help replenish blood.

Effectiveness: Dutch beans young pods crisp and fragrant, high nutritional value, often eat on the spleen and stomach weakness, abdominal distension, vomiting, diarrhea, postpartum lactation, fever and thirst are therapeutic.