1. Antibacterial

2. Antiheat and detoxification

Water chestnut is a cold food, with good effect of clearing away heat and fire. It is suitable for fever patients as it can clear the heat and produce fluids, as well as replenish nutrients. It has the efficacy of cooling blood and detoxifying, diuretic and laxative, resolving dampness and expelling phlegm, eliminating food and removing bloating.

3. Prevent infectious diseases

4. Promote physical development

The horseshoe contains high levels of the mineral phosphorus, which, like calcium, is a major component of bones and teeth, accounting for about 1% of the human body weight. Phosphorus can promote human growth and development and body fat, sugar, protein metabolism, and through the proper discharge of acid and alkaline substances from the urine to regulate the acid-base balance in the body.

5. Maintain acid-base balance

The phosphorus content in water chestnuts is the highest in all stem vegetables. Phosphorus not only promotes the body's development, but also enables the body to carry out a normal metabolism of sugar, fat, and protein, and maintains acid-base balance.

6. Clear lungs and phlegm

Water chestnut is sweet, cold, can clear lung heat, and rich in mucus, have the effect of generating fluids and moisturizing the lungs and phlegm, so it can clear phlegm and heat, treatment of lung heat and cough, coughing and spitting yellow viscous phlegm and other diseases.

7. laxative

The horseshoe is rich in starch and crude fiber, water content is also very high, tender and juicy, can promote peristalsis, speed up the metabolism, with laxative effect on the urine blazing heat, food constipation has a therapeutic effect.

The contraindications of water chestnut

1. Horseshoes are cold and sweet, have the effect of laxative, and it is easy to eat too much at one time to have bloating or diarrhea. The elderly, digestion and poor digestion is also not advisable to eat more.

4. Water chestnut is a cold food, which is not very suitable for people who have cold spleen and stomach, loose stools and those who have blood stasis should not eat.