Chestnuts also have high medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts can nourish the stomach, strengthen the spleen, strengthen the waist and kidney, promote blood circulation and stop bleeding. Among dried fruits, chestnuts provide high heat energy, which can satisfy hunger and promote fat metabolism, so it can replenish qi, strengthen spleen and nourish stomach. Compendium of Materia Medica says that it can cure kidney deficiency and weakness of waist and feet, hang chestnuts in bags, eat more than ten chestnuts every day and eat pig kidney porridge to help them, and they will be strong over time. Chestnuts are sweet and warm, enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, and have the functions of tonifying spleen and kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. It is suitable for chronic diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach weakness, soreness of waist and knees, lumbago and leg pain, frequent urination, swelling and pain caused by kidney deficiency, etc. So people with kidney deficiency may wish to eat more chestnuts.
Chestnuts can be eaten in a variety of ways, not only fresh, cooked, fried with sugar, eaten as vegetables, but also processed into various foods. Cooking with chestnuts is a feast in the south. Chestnut black-bone chicken, stewed mutton with chestnuts, fried chicken with chestnuts and stewed pig's trotters are all famous. Chestnuts fried with sugar in the north are waxy, fragrant, sweet and delicious. Grind chestnut meat and cook porridge with glutinous rice, which is delicious and is also a fine medicinal diet. Chestnuts and japonica rice can strengthen the spleen and stomach, stimulate appetite, strengthen the kidney and bones, and are especially suitable for those with loss of appetite and weak waist and knees caused by functional degradation of the elderly.
Chestnut is not easy to digest when eaten raw, and cooked food is easy to lag. Eating too much at a time will hurt the spleen and stomach. When you eat chestnuts, you should chew them carefully until there is no residue in the taste and they become pulpy. Only when you swallow them bit by bit can you have a health care effect.