Benefits of eating lotus seeds

Lotus seeds have the effect of tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, benefiting the kidneys and astringent clearing, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind. Chinese medicine is often used in night sleep, insomnia, forgetfulness, heartburn and thirst, lumbago and foot weakness, deafness, spermatorrhea, gonorrhea, dysentery, deficiency diarrhea, women's leakage and discharges, as well as gastric deficiency and lack of desire to eat and drink and other illnesses. Lotus seed is good at making up for the deficiency of the five organs, through the twelve meridians and blood, so that the blood smooth and not rot, lotus seed contains oxidized yellow heart tree alkaloids on nasopharyngeal carcinoma has an inhibitory effect, all of which, constitutes the lotus seed cancer prevention and anti-cancer nutritional health care functions; lotus seed contains a non-crystalline alkaloid N-9 has a role in lowering blood pressure; lotus seed cotton seed sugar contained in the young and old people are suitable for the tonic for the chronically ill, post-partum, or the elderly weak. Or old age and physical weakness, is commonly used nutritional supplements. Middle-aged and elderly people, especially brain workers often eat, can brain, enhance memory, improve work efficiency, and can prevent the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease.

Benefits of eating chestnuts:

Chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature, have a stomach and spleen, tonic kidney and strong function. Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty said, "Chestnut, the fruit of the kidney, kidney disease should be eaten." The Compendium of Materia Medica states, "Chestnut treatment of kidney deficiency, lumbar and leg weakness, can pass the kidneys and benefit the qi, thick stomach and intestines also."

Su Dongpo's younger brother Su Ziyu once wrote a poem extolling the therapeutic benefits of chestnuts, "old age since the addition of waist and foot disease, the mountain Weng old passes the formula. The customer came to say that the morning rose late, three swallowed Xu received white jade syrup."

Eating chestnuts can benefit the blood, stomach, kidney, liver and spleen; raw food and treatment of lumbar and leg pain, the efficacy of the tendons. Chestnuts contain high starch that provides high calories, while potassium helps maintain a normal heartbeat, and fiber strengthens the intestinal tract and keeps the excretory system functioning normally.

Chestnuts are sweet and warm, non-toxic, and have the medical effect of strengthening the spleen and liver, as well as the body and bones. Often eaten raw can cure waist and leg weakness, the shell and bark have astringent effect; fresh leaves can be used externally to cure skin inflammation; flowers can treat scrofulous ulcers and diarrhea, root hernia. Folk prescription chestnut, daily morning and evening each raw food one to two, can cure old age kidney deficiency, urination weak frequency; raw chestnut mashed as mud, applied to the affected area, can cure bruises, swelling and pain in the tendons and bones, and there is a pain relieving bleeding, absorb pus and poisonous effect

eat chestnut bad:

eat too much raw is not easy to digest;

cooked to eat too much easy to stagnate;

diabetic Patients should eat less or not eat because the sugar content of chestnuts is very high.