Medicinal value and side effects of chestnut peel

Everyone must have eaten chestnuts. They are known to be sweeter and more nutritious. However, when people eat chestnuts, they usually remove the shells and only eat the flesh inside. However, the chestnut shells that people remove also have high utilization value. After being collected and processed, they can be used as medicine. It is a Chinese herbal medicine with excellent medicinal effects. The following is a detailed introduction to its medicinal value and side effects. If you want to know more about chestnut shells, you can take a look at it.

Medicinal value of chestnut peel

1. Treat nausea and vomiting

After being used as medicine, chestnut peel can enter the stomach meridian and can improve the human stomach digestive function, and can play an important role in soothing the stomach and stopping vomiting. It has obvious therapeutic effects on common nausea and vomiting in humans. During treatment, directly take 20 grams of chestnut peel, add water and boil it before taking it.

2. Treat cough and asthma

Coughing, asthma, and excessive sputum are common diseases in humans, which are mostly caused by upper respiratory tract infections. The medicinal herb Bailipi has obvious therapeutic effects on these human diseases. It can reduce inflammation, kill bacteria, and resist viruses. It can quickly reduce inflammation in the human trachea and lungs. People can relieve cough, reduce phlegm, and relieve asthma by boiling it in water and taking it.

3. Treating diaphragmatic qi

Diaphragmatic qi is a common disease in humans, and after the disease occurs, people will feel very uncomfortable, and in severe cases it will affect their appetite. The chestnut shells used as medicine have an obvious therapeutic effect on this disease. During treatment, the collected chestnut shells need to be dried in a pot first, then ground into fine powder, and appropriate amount of honey and blended into sugar-free seed-sized pills. Taking 30 pills each time with rice soup is best.

4. Treatment of scrofula

Chestnut shell is also a commonly used medicine for treating human scrofula, and the therapeutic effect is particularly good. During treatment, it can be combined with lean pork to make soup and taken once a day. After five to seven days of continuous use, the condition can be significantly alleviated.

Side effects of chestnut shells

Chestnut shells are non-toxic and have no obvious side effects, but this Chinese medicinal material is relatively hard and cannot be taken directly orally, otherwise it will increase the burden on the human gastrointestinal tract and lead to a decline in gastrointestinal function.

After reading the above introduction to the medicinal value and side effects of chestnut shells, do you have a new understanding of chestnut shells? In the future, you can also collect the shells of chestnuts when you eat them and use them reasonably when needed.