Ling, native to Europe. It is more common in southern and northern China, especially in Taihu Lake area and Pearl River Delta in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Water chestnut meat contains 24% starch, 3.6% protein and 0.5% fat. When young, you can eat it raw as fruit. When cooked, it can be cooked or processed into water chestnut powder. When it is air-dried, it can be stored to extend the supply. Water chestnut leaves can be used as green feed or green manure.

Helps strengthen the stomach, stop dysentery and fight cancer. Helps to treat gastric ulcer, dysentery, esophageal cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer. External use of rhombic handle to treat multiple warts of skin; The burnt ash of rhombic shell is used for external treatment of pustulosis and hemorrhoids.

Edible taboo

Although water chestnut has great medicinal value, we should be careful not to overdo it or cook it with pork, which may cause abdominal pain.

Autumn is the picking season for water chestnut and water chestnut. They are just fresh and tender, and I can't help eating them. At this time, it is very likely that it is infected with ginger worms parasitic on water chestnut and water chestnut. Fasciola zingiberensis is parasitic in human small intestine, which can cause digestive tract and systemic symptoms, such as abdominal pain, abdominal distension and diarrhea. In severe cases, anemia, edema and developmental disorders may occur.

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