Table of Contents 1 Pinyin 2 Alias of Chestnut 3 Nutritional Value of Chestnut 4 Who Chestnut is Suitable for 5 Therapeutic Effects of Chestnut 6 *Dictionary: Chestnut 6.1 Origin 6.2 Pinyin 6.3 Alias of Chestnut 6.4 Source 6.5 Morphology 6.6 Habitat and Distribution 6.7 Chemical Constituents 6.8 Characteristics and Flavors 6.9 Attribution to the Meridian 6.10 Functions and Indications 6.11 Uses and Dosage of Chestnut 6.12 Attention 6.13 Appendix 1 Formulas used in Chinese medicine, 6.14 Notes on various writings 6.15 Excerpt 1. 6.14 Commentaries 6.15 Excerpts Attachment: 1 Formulas using chestnut in traditional Chinese medicine 2 Proprietary Chinese medicines using chestnut in traditional Chinese medicine 3 Chestnut in ancient books 1 Pinyin

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Chestnut (raw)

Chestnut (ripe)

Chestnut, also known as chestnut, is not only a large amount of starch, but also contains proteins, fats and B vitamins and many other nutrients, which are important for the health of the body, B vitamins and other nutrients, known as the "king of dried fruit" reputation. Chestnuts can be food, and dates, persimmons and known as "hardcore crops", "woody food", is a cheap, nutritious tonic and tonic medicine.

2 Chestnut aliases

chestnut, chestnut, chestnut fruit, hairy chestnut, chess, chestnut wedge

3 Chestnut nutritional value

1. Chestnut contains rich unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, minerals, can prevent and control hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases, is anti-aging, prolong life of nourishment;

2. Chestnuts contain riboflavin, eaten regularly, can be used to prevent and treat the disease. Chestnut contains riboflavin, often eat chestnuts for a long time difficult to heal children's mouth and tongue sores and adult mouth ulcers beneficial;

3. chestnuts is a high carbohydrate content of dried fruit varieties, can supply the human body with more caloric energy, and can help the metabolism of fat, with the benefit of qi and spleen, the role of the thick tonic gastrointestinal;

4. chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, can maintain the teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles of the normal function of the body, you can The chestnut is rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal function of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles, and can prevent and treat osteoporosis, lumbar and leg soreness, pain in the muscles and bones, and fatigue, etc. It can slow down the aging of the human body, and it is an ideal health care fruit for the elderly.

4 chestnut suitable for the crowd

The general population can be eaten, each 10 (50 grams); corn is difficult to digest, do not eat too much, otherwise it will cause gastric fullness.

1. suitable for the elderly kidney deficiency people to eat, the middle-aged and elderly back pain waist pain, leg and foot weakness, frequent urination is particularly suitable; suitable for the elderly bronchitis coughing, cold diarrhea people to eat;

2. diabetic people should not eat; infants and young children, spleen and stomach weakness, dyspepsia, rheumatism is not suitable for people to eat more.

5 Chestnut therapeutic efficacy

sweet, warm, into the spleen, stomach, kidney meridian;

nourish the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidney and strong tendons, blood stopping;

the main treatment of spleen and stomach weakness, regurgitation, diarrhea, weakness, soreness and weakness of the legs, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in stools, gold sores, folding pain and swelling, scrofula and poisoning.

Apply to frequent urination caused by kidney deficiency, waist and leg weakness: 30 grams of chestnuts, simmering in the fire to eat, every morning and evening 1 time.

Chestnut tonic function of the human body, comparable to ginseng, astragalus, angelica, etc., on the kidney deficiency has a good therapeutic effect, so it is also known as the "fruit of the kidneys", especially in old age, kidney deficiency, loose stools is more suitable for frequent consumption can strengthen the body healing.

6 *Dictionary:Chestnut 6.1 Origin

Qianjin - Food Therapy

6.2 Pinyin

Lì Zi

6.3 Alias of Chestnut

Pan Chestnut (Tang Materia Medica), Chestnut Fruit (Diannan Materia Medica), Dali Chestnut (Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain Medicinal Plants Zhi).

6.4 Source

The seed kernel of chestnut, family Crustacea.

6.5 Original form

Chestnut (Poetry), also known as: Chestnut (Xijing Miscellany), hairy chestnut, tile chestnut tree, wind chestnut, family chestnut.

Deciduous tree, 15-20 meters high. The bark of the tree is dark gray, irregularly parted, the branches are gray-brown, with longitudinal grooves, and the skin has many yellow-gray round lenticels. Winter buds short, broadly ovate, velutinous. Leaves alternate, thinly leathery, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 12-15 cm long, 5.5-7 cm wide, base cuneate or unequal on both sides, apex pointed caudate, dark green above, glossy, pinnate lateral veins 10-17 pairs, with hairs on the midvein; light green below, with white tomentum, margins sparsely serrate, teeth terminated by inwardly curved bristly hairs; petiole short, with long hairs and short downy hairs. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male inflorescences spikelike, borne in the leaf axils of the lower part of the new branches, ca. 15-20 cm, pale yellowish-brown, with 8-10 stamens; female flowers sessile, borne in the lower part of the male inflorescences, externally with a cupular involucre, the ovary inferior, the styles 5-9. the involucre globose, 3-5 cm in diameter, outside bearing sharp, hairy thorns, containing 2-3 nuts, cleft to 4-merous at maturity. Nut dark brown, 2-3 cm in diam. The nut is dark brown, 2-3 cm in diameter. Fruiting period August to October.

6.6 Habitat

Distribution: Liaoning, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi.

6.7 Chemical composition

The fruit contains 5.7% protein, 2.0% fat, 62% carbonhydrate, 1.3% ash, 25% starch, vitamin B, lipase.

6.8 Taste and odor

Sweet, warm.

① "Bie Lu": "taste salty, warm, non-toxic."

② Tao Hongjing: "Sweet."

③ Diannan Materia Medica: "Taste sweet, flat."

6.9 Meridian

Into the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.

① Jade Rowan Explanation of Medicine: "Entering the spleen of the foot Taiyin and the kidney meridian of the foot Shaoyin."

② "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Into the kidney, intestines, stomach."

③ "The Materia Medica Rexin": "Entering the heart and lung meridians."

6.10 Functions

Nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. It is used for treating regurgitation, diarrhea, weakness of waist and feet, vomiting, epistaxis, blood in stool, gold sores, swelling and pain of fracture, scrofula.

① "Bielu": "the main benefit of qi, thick stomach and intestines, tonifying the kidney qi, people endure hunger."

② "Thousand Gold - Food": "Eat raw, even the waist and feet."

③ "Tang Materia Medica": "Chewing raw coated with the disease, treatment of broken tendons and bones, pain, swelling and stasis."

④ "Food Materia Medica": "Rationalize the wind pain of muscles and bones."

⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Raw food to break the cold stasis, eat seven raw. Chewed raw, and applied to scrofula, swelling and poisonous pain."

⑥ "Herbal Tujing": "To activate blood."

(7) "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Treatment of mountain arroyo, malaria, or water diarrhea, or red and white dysentery. With fire calcined to the end. Take three coins per serving and put it down in ginger soup."" Eat raw to stop vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematemesis, all blood diseases are available."

⑧ Diannan Ben Cao Tu Shuo: "Treatment of regurgitation."

6.11 Usage and dosage of chestnuts

Internal: raw, boiled, or fried in powder. External use: pounding.

6.12 Note

① Monk: "Chestnuts steamed and fried to eat the gas embrace, suffering from wind and water gas should not eat."

② "Materia Medica Derivatives": "Children can not eat, raw hard to melt, cooked that is stagnant gas isolation food, often lead to pediatric disease."

③ "to match the herb": "eat more stagnant spleen and love diaphragm, rheumatism is prohibited."

④ "with the rest of the house dietary spectrum": "external sensations to go, plaque, chancre, malaria, post-partum, pediatric, the patient is not hungry, constipation and avoid."

6.13 Annex

① treatment of kidney deficiency waist and knee weakness: chestnut wedge air-drying, daily hollow food seven, and then eat pig kidney porridge. ("Experience")

② treatment of children with weak feet, three or four years old can not walk: daily with raw chestnut and food. (Yao Kecheng "Food Materia Medica")

③ treatment of bronchitis: chestnut meat half a catty. Boiled lean meat to serve. (Jiangxi "herbal medicine manual")

④ treatment of pain and swelling of the tendons and bones: chestnut fruit mashed compress the affected area. (Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain medicinal plant Zhi)

⑤ treatment of pediatric chancre sores: pounded chestnuts coated. ("Preparing for the emergency formula")

⑥ treatment of gold blade axe injuries: a single shell of chestnut research, or hasty pounding can be applied. (The lakes set of simple formula)

6.14 the discussion of

① "Herbal illustrations": "chestnut room when the heart of a son called chestnut wedge, blood especially effective, now Hengshan Heping blood Dan used. The chestnut in the fruit is the most beneficial. The treatment of waist and feet should be eaten raw, still slightly ***, go to its water, but suffering from wind and water should not be eaten, in order to taste salty also."

② "Compendium": "Someone cold, violent leakage such as injection, so that the food simmering chestnut two, thirty pills suddenly healed. Kidney main stool, chestnut can pass the kidney, in this can be verified. Experience" treatment of kidney deficiency waist and foot weakness, to bag the raw chestnut hanging dry, every day to eat more than ten, the second eat pig kidney porridge to help, long time must be strong and healthy. Cover the air-dried chestnuts, better than day exposure, and fire simmering oil fried, better than cooking and steaming, still must be chewed, even liquid swallowing, it is beneficial, if eaten to satiety, anti-injury to the spleen carry on."

③ "Jade Rowan medicinal solution": "Chestnut, tonic to help gas, full of false benefit discouragement, cultivate the soil solid spleen, all things do not catch. But more food is difficult to eliminate gas stagnation, less mouthfuls of gas up to the easy to gram ear."

6.15 Extracts from

*Dictionary

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