Another name: water chestnut, water chestnut

Family name: Rhodophyta Trapaceae , Rhododendron Trapa

(1) An aquatic plant. It is cultivated or wild in the southern provinces of China. Its pulp is edible, young stems can be used as vegetables, fruit with horns, commonly known as rhombus. Growing in the lake, rhombus vine long green leaves, stems are purple-red, bright yellow flowers.

Rhombus is an annual herbaceous aquatic plant, also known as the "water drop flower", fruit "rhombus" for the nut, pendant in the water under the dense leaves, must be taken up the whole plant upside down, can be seen, usually in the spring of February, we have to set up a nursery, intensive cultivation of seedlings to the end of May to the beginning of early summer in early June after the first phase of the rice harvest, it will be the whole paddy rice field to build the ground, building ridges, diversion into the field, transplantation of rhombus seedling. Transplanting rhododendron seedlings.

Rhombus has a green, red and purple color, the skin is crisp and meat is beautiful, is considered a good fruit, can also be used as food. Generally steamed and eaten, or dried and chopped into fine grains, porridge can also be eaten.

Rhombus is rich in starch, protein, glucose, fat and a variety of vitamins, such as vitamin B1, B2, C, carotene and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements. Ancient people believe that eating more rhododendron can make up for the five organs, in addition to all diseases, and can be light, the so-called light, is to have weight loss and bodybuilding effect, because rhododendron does not contain fat to make people fat. The Materia Medica Compendium" said: rhododendron can supplement the spleen and stomach, strong knees, health and energy, beneficial to the stomach and intestines, can solve the internal heat, the elderly often eat good. According to recent pharmacological experiments reported: rhombus has a certain anti-cancer effect. Available prevention and treatment of esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, uterine cancer. The method is to use the raw rhombus 20 meat, add the right amount of water with the fire into a thick brown soup to take, 1 day 3 times; or rhombus 100 grams of meat, add barley 30 grams, cooked into porridge to eat can also be.

(2) Taste: raw sweet, cool, non-toxic; cooked sweet, flat, non-toxic.

The meridian: into the stomach, intestines.

Effects: Diuretic and lactating, quenching thirst, and quenching the poison of alcohol.

Treatments: sores, warts, recently used in folk medicine to treat esophageal cancer, stomach cancer.

Reference:

1, fresh rhododendron stems (leaves and roots) 120 grams, water decoction, treatment of pediatric head sores, but also to relieve alcohol.

2, the old rhombus coal deposits sex, research into fine powder, with sesame oil dressing the affected area, the treatment of head and face yellow water sores.

3, red rhododendron dried and ground, fasting 10 grams, red dysentery with old wine, white dysentery with rice soup, dysentery.

4, fresh rhododendron (rhododendron handle), applying rubbing the affected area, several times a day, the treatment of warts (youthful flat warts, multiple common warts).

5, rhombus, chebula, Job's tears, wisteria tumor 10 grams each, decoction, twice a day, treatment of esophageal cancer, stomach cancer.

6, raw rhombus meat boiled into brown soup, daily with 20-30 rhombus. The soup is divided into 2-3 times, which can cure uterine cancer and stomach cancer. According to Japanese reports, this formula for long-term use, repeated results.

7, rhododendron porridge: 100 grams of rice, porridge, cooked to half-cooked, add rhododendron powder 30-60 grams, cooked with the same, with the appropriate amount of brown sugar seasoning to eat. There are spleen and stomach, qi anti-cancer effect. Apply to chronic diarrhea, malnutrition, old age and weakness. And has the prevention and treatment of stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, uterine cancer role.

8, rhododendron powder 10-50 grams, sugar, water fried into a paste to eat. There are clear summer heat, remove boredom and thirst, benefit the spleen, detoxification effect. It is suitable for bitter mouth, thirst, sore throat and other symptoms caused by alcoholism.

The opposite is true! Although the rhododendron has great medicinal value, but the consumption of attention should not be excessive, attention should not be cooked with pork with food, easy to cause abdominal pain.

Cooking guide

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1. Fresh fruits eat too much raw easy to damage the spleen and stomach, it is advisable to cook and eat.

2. Rhododendron congee is good for the stomach and intestines, and can relieve internal heat.

Therapeutic effects

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Rhombus is sweet, astringent, and flat;

It has the effect of replenishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening the femur and knee, and strengthening the strength of the qi.