What plant is the fruit of water chestnut?

Water chestnut is the fruit of the annual herbaceous aquatic plant Ligusticum, which belongs to the rhombus family. Also known as waist Ling, Water Chestnut, Ling Shi, crisp skin and beautiful meat, after cooking, peeling and eating, you can also boil porridge. Water chestnut is rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids and a variety of vitamins and trace elements. It has the effect of diuresis, relieving thirst and detoxifying alcohol.

First, the effect of water chestnut

Suitable for the crowd: the general population is edible.

Therapeutic efficacy: water chestnut tastes sweet, astringent and cool

1. Tonifying the spleen, tonifying qi and invigorating the spleen, strengthening the knee, invigorating and invigorating qi

two。 Anti-cancer, the alcohol extract of Lingshi can inhibit the degeneration and tissue proliferation of cancer cells.

3. Weight loss, water chestnut diuresis, milk, detoxification, is a supplementary food for weight loss.

4. Relieve skin diseases, assist in the treatment of children's head sores, yellow water sores on the head, skin warts and other skin diseases.

In addition, water chestnut can quell the lust of men and women. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" pointed out: "where the fruit in the water, this thing is the most air-conditioned, people refrigerate, damage Yang, make the jade stem decline."

Water chestnut is good for the elderly. According to modern pharmacological experiments, water chestnut has a certain anticancer effect. Available for prevention and treatment of esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, uterine cancer and so on.

Second, edible suggestions

Try not to eat raw water chestnut, water chestnut, lotus root, and do not gnaw the skin with your teeth. When eating raw, be sure to wash it thoroughly and soak it in boiling water for a few minutes or in the sun for a day before eating. Wash your hands if you come into contact with aquatic plants or sewage to prevent metacercaria contamination.

1. If you eat too much fresh fruit, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach and should be cooked.

two。 Lingfen porridge is good for the stomach and intestines and can dissolve internal heat.

Medicinal value of water chestnut

Water chestnut, sweet, astringent and cold

1. Anti-cancer, the alcohol extract of Lingshi can inhibit the degeneration and tissue proliferation of cancer cells.

2. Tonifying the spleen, tonifying qi and invigorating the spleen, strengthening the knee, invigorating and invigorating qi

3, relieve skin diseases, assist in the treatment of children's head sores, yellow water sores on the head, skin warts and other skin diseases.

4. Weight loss, water chestnut diuresis, milk dredging, alcohol detoxification, is an auxiliary food for weight loss.

5, red Lingjiao sun-dried research powder, take 10 grams on an empty stomach, red dysentery sent with old wine, white dysentery sent with rice soup to treat dysentery.

6. Fresh Lingti (diamond handle), rub the affected area several times a day to treat verruca verruca (youth verruca plana, multiple warts).

7. Fresh turquoise stem (defoliated and fibrous root) 120g, fried in water to treat children's head sores, but also can relieve alcohol.

8, the old water chestnut coal storage, research into fine powder, with sesame oil to apply to the affected area, treatment of head yellow water sore.

9, water chestnut powder 10-50 grams, appropriate amount of sugar, water fried into a paste to eat. It has the effect of clearing heat and relieving fever, eliminating annoyance and relieving thirst, replenishing qi and invigorating spleen, detoxifying alcohol. It is suitable for bitterness, thirst, sore throat and other diseases caused by alcoholism.

10, water chestnut, chebula, barley, wisteria tumor each 10 grams, water frying, twice a day, the treatment of esophageal cancer, gastric cancer.

11. Boil raw water chestnut meat into brown thick soup, using 20-30 water chestnuts a day. Decoction for 2-3 times, can treat uterine cancer, gastric cancer. According to Japanese reports, this prescription has been used for a long time and has been effective.

12, water chestnut porridge: 100 grams of rice, boiled porridge, boiled to half-cooked, add 30-60 grams of water chestnut powder, cooked together, seasoned with an appropriate amount of brown sugar. It has the effect of invigorating spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and preventing cancer. It is suitable for chronic diarrhea, malnutrition, old age and infirmity. It also has the effect of preventing and treating gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and uterine cancer.

The nutritional value of water chestnut is relatively high, suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to eat more, and delicious, in the season, eat more, otherwise you will have to wait for another year.