With the improvement of living standards, modern people eat more and eat more carefully, which increases the burden on the spleen and stomach. Therefore, the more common spleen and stomach problems now are more due to "tiredness". For this Spleen and stomach diseases caused by tiredness are very suitable for using water treasures to regulate the spleen and stomach.

The treasure of health preservation: "Underground Sydney"

This "Underground Sydney" is water chestnut, also called water chestnut. Northerners regard it as "Jiangnan ginseng", which has the functions of clearing away heat, reducing phlegm and nourishing yin. It has the functions of promoting body fluids and eliminating accumulation.

"Luo Shi Hui Yue Medical Mirror" records that "water chestnuts can replenish qi and calm the heart, whet the appetite and eliminate food, remove heat and promote fluid production, stop dysentery and quench thirst, treat jaundice, treat bleeding, and relieve pain."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says it "is sweet in taste, slightly cold, slippery, and non-toxic. It mainly relieves thirst and numbs heat, warms the middle and replenishes qi, removes elixirs, eliminates wind and poison, and removes excess heat in the chest." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that water chestnuts are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm and eliminating accumulation. It can cure fever, thirst, jaundice, red eyes, sore throat, red and hot urine, shortness of urine, and accumulation of phlegm.

1. Clear the lungs and resolve phlegm

Water chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature and can clear away heat from the lungs. They are also rich in mucus and have the effect of promoting body fluids, moistening the lungs and reducing phlegm, so they can clear away phlegm. Heat, used to treat cough caused by lung heat and vomiting yellow sticky phlegm.

2. It is laxative

Water chestnuts contain crude protein and starch, which can promote large intestine peristalsis. They are often used clinically to treat food accumulation, fullness and dry stools caused by heat evil; Water chestnut decoction can diuretic and relieve stranguria. Patients with urinary tract infection may wish to eat more water chestnuts.

3. Antibacterial and anti-cancer

Water chestnuts contain a substance called water chestnut, which has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Aerobacter aerogenes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. , and also has a certain effect on lowering blood pressure. In addition, water chestnuts also have a preventive and therapeutic effect on cancer. Therefore, patients with bacterial infections, constipation, hypertension, and cancer can eat more water chestnuts.

For those with indigestion and stagnation in the spleen and stomach, you might as well try Snow Soup Decoction, which can eliminate stagnation and relieve constipation.

Snow soup

Ingredients:

6 fresh water chestnuts, 30 grams of jellyfish. Jellyfish can also clear away heat and calm the liver, eliminate phlegm and phlegm, and moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation.

Method:

Soak 30 grams of jellyfish in warm water, wash and chop into pieces. Peel 15 grams of fresh water chestnuts. Put them in a pot and add appropriate amount of water. Cook over low heat for one hour. Drink it all at once or in divided doses.

Efficacy: It can treat indigestion, gastrointestinal stagnation, yellow face, weight loss, and diarrhea.

Contraindications: It is not recommended for people with spleen and stomach deficiency.

Tip 1:

When buying water chestnuts, be sure to choose water chestnuts with shorter buds, because such water chestnuts are sweet and very easy to peel. The water chestnuts you choose are the ones listed above. A little flat.

First wash the water chestnuts with clean water, then take a fruit knife and remove the top and bottom of the water chestnuts. Then take a peeler and peel off the excess peel in the middle of the water chestnuts. In this way, the water chestnuts can be eaten after being peeled.

Tip 2:

Prepare a larger empty bowl, put the water chestnuts in the bowl, and then pour in an appropriate amount of hot water, just enough to cover the water chestnuts. Next Pour a small amount of table salt into the bowl, then place a plate upside down on top and wait for about three minutes.

After that, take off the plate and expose it to the air for about two minutes. Because of the expansion and contraction due to heat and cold, the skin of the water chestnuts can be easily peeled off, and the added salt can quickly remove the water chestnut skin. With the evaporation of molecules, it becomes very easy to peel water chestnuts with a peeler.

The general population can eat water chestnuts. It is most suitable for children and patients with fever. Cancer patients with cough and phlegm, dry throat and sore throat, indigestion, and difficulty in urination and defecation can also eat more; for those with high blood pressure, constipation, diabetes, excessive urination, stranguria, stranguria, and urinary tract It has certain effects on infected patients, and can also prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis and influenza.

It is not suitable for children with weak digestion, weak spleen and stomach, and blood stasis.