There is a folk saying that "pear dates in August, hawthorn in September, and chestnut laughs in October".
Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts are sweet in taste and warm in nature, and have the effects of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and are especially suitable for people with soreness of waist and knees, soreness of waist and legs, frequent micturition and deficiency of spleen and kidney caused by kidney deficiency. Modern research believes that chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content, which can provide more heat energy and help the body resist the cold, and is more suitable for eating in autumn and winter.
Unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals contained in chestnuts have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and osteoporosis. Therefore, the elderly often eat chestnuts to prolong life. In addition, chestnuts are rich in riboflavin and can be eaten by friends with oral ulcers.
In addition to cooked food, chestnuts can also be eaten raw, and it is better to eat chestnuts raw to tonify the kidney. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao, a medical scientist, called chestnut "the fruit of kidney", pointed out that "raw food" could cure lumbago and leg pain, and emphasized the usage of "raw food". Middle-aged and elderly people can effectively prevent kidney deficiency, backache and leg pain if they develop the habit of eating dried chestnuts every day.
Although chestnuts support people, they are eaten too much raw and difficult to digest, and too much cooked food is easy to block the stomach. Generally speaking, it is advisable to eat 5- 10 chestnuts every day, especially for children, who have poor digestive ability and should not eat more. Because of the high sugar content of chestnuts, diabetics had better stay away from chestnuts.
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