The efficacy of water chestnut

1. Anti-cancer and anticancer

Water chestnut is a medicinal plant with anticancer effect, because it contains an anticancer substance named AH-13; This substance has a very obvious inhibitory effect on degeneration and tissue proliferation of ascites cancer cells.

2. Lose weight and keep fit

Chinese medicine believes that eating water chestnut can soothe the internal organs, and it is not hungry and fit. Water chestnut has few calories and basically does not contain any fat, so it is a low-calorie food. And is rich in minerals and cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestion, and has the effects of losing weight and shaping body.

3. invigorating spleen and benefiting qi

water chestnut, as an aquatic herb, is cool and has certain effects of clearing away summer heat and relieving fever. For the elderly, porridge can replenish spleen and qi.

4. Clearing away toxin and treating sores

Contraindications of water chestnut

1. Allergic physique can't be eaten

Water chestnut contains starch and protein, some of which are foreign proteins, which can easily lead to allergies, skin itching, papules and other skin diseases if eaten improperly. Therefore, allergic constitution is not suitable for eating water chestnut, which is not good for health.

2. People with cold constitution can't eat it

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, water chestnut belongs to cold food, which contains more cold, which will cause spleen and stomach deficiency after eating, and cold food also contains a lot of cold, which will aggravate the body cold. Water chestnut is not suitable for people with cold constitution, which will aggravate cold constitution and is not suitable for health, so as not to cause physical discomfort.

3. Eating together is taboo