What are the effects of boiling water with horseshoe skin?

Water chestnut is a particularly popular food ingredient in life. Its meat is white and tender, the skin is mostly purple-black, and it tastes sweet and juicy. People can absorb rich nutrients after using it, and it can also clear away heat, reduce phlegm, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. However, people usually take off the shell and throw it away when eating water chestnuts. They don’t know that this shell also has a high utilization value and can be used directly to boil water to drink. Boiling water with water chestnut skin also has certain health benefits for the human body, and can enhance physical fitness and prevent the occurrence of some common diseases.

What are the benefits of boiling water with horseshoe skin?

1. Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough

Horse hoof skin has certain medicinal value. It can eliminate many bacteria and viruses in the human body. It is cold in nature. People can boil water with it to drink to remove heat and toxins from the body. It can also relieve human lung heat and dryness. It has a good preventive and alleviating effect on human cough caused by lung heat or sputum caused by fever. It is extremely beneficial to maintaining the health of the human respiratory system.

2. Prevent high blood pressure

Drinking water boiled with water chestnut skin can also prevent the occurrence of high blood pressure, because water chestnuts are rich in trace element potassium, which can accelerate the body's sodium salt metabolism. The nutrients it contains, such as vitamin C and trace element phosphorus, can directly act on the human cardiovascular system, promote blood circulation, and prevent high blood pressure. Drinking water boiled with it regularly can keep blood pressure stable and normal.

3. Calcium supplementation and bone strengthening

Horse hoof skin contains many trace elements that are beneficial to the human body, among which the content of trace elements calcium and phosphorus is relatively high. People can absorb and utilize these calcium and phosphorus as soon as possible by boiling water with it. They are important constituents of human bone cells, can accelerate the regeneration of collagen in the human body and promote bone cell metabolism, can significantly increase human bone density, and can also promote bone development. Regular consumption can supplement calcium and strengthen bones and improve human bone health.

4. Anti-inflammatory and sterilizing

Horse hoof skin is a traditional Chinese medicine with bactericidal effects. People can eliminate many sensitive and pathogenic bacteria in the body by boiling it in water and drinking it, and can prevent the human body from being infected with diseases due to bacterial growth. When people suffer from enteritis, dysentery and urinary tract infections, drinking water boiled with horse hoof skin can significantly alleviate the patient's condition. Boiled water with horse hoof skin can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, improve human kidney function, and regular consumption can prevent body edema and excessive obesity.