Chestnut health care method chestnut effect

People have used chestnuts for nourishment and treatment since ancient times. There are many ways to do this, but people usually eat them cooked. Eating chestnuts raw is more effective in nourishing the kidneys.

Chestnut

As early as the Tang Dynasty, medical scientist Sun Simiao said that chestnuts are "the fruit of the kidneys, and are suitable for people with kidney diseases." It is worth noting that he added in "Qianjin Fang·Food Therapy" that "eating it raw can cure waist and leg paralysis." He emphasized the usage of "eating it raw."

Eating raw chestnuts has the effect of stopping bleeding

Wang Jue from Beijing Nanyuan Hospital said that as people get older, their yang energy gradually declines, and they will not only experience soreness in the waist and knees and pain in the limbs, but may also have loose and falling teeth. These are all manifestations of insufficient kidney energy, so we should start with tonifying the kidneys and prevent them early. Eating raw chestnuts is one of the feasible methods.

Su Che, one of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, once wrote a poem to explain that he ate chestnuts according to the "old recipe" to treat sore waist and knees: "As I get older, I suffer from waist and leg diseases. The old man in the mountain takes chestnuts according to the old recipe. When guests come, they tell me that they get up early and stay up late. They swallow the white jade juice three times slowly." Su Che is telling the elderly how to eat chestnuts to nourish the kidneys in a scientific way: every morning and evening, put fresh chestnuts in your mouth and chew them carefully until your mouth is full of white juice, and then swallow them slowly again and again, and you can get better tonic and curative effects. If middle-aged and elderly people develop the habit of eating 5 to 10 dried raw chestnuts every morning and evening, they can effectively prevent and treat kidney deficiency, sore waist and leg pain. It should be noted that people with poor spleen and stomach should not eat more than 5 raw chestnuts.

In addition, eating raw chestnuts has the effect of stopping bleeding, and can treat common bleeding diseases such as vomiting blood, epistaxis, and blood in the stool. Shelling raw chestnuts, mashing them into mud, and applying them to the affected area can treat bruises, congestion, swelling and pain, etc. Chinese medicine has clinically proven to have a certain effect.

Chestnuts are sweet and warm in nature. They can be fried or boiled, and have the effect of soothing the stomach and strengthening the spleen. Now, due to the improvement of living conditions, parents often pay too much attention to the nutrition of their children. Strong food and partial food can lead to the common clinical syndrome of spleen deficiency in children. The so-called "spleen deficiency" refers to the child's pale complexion, fatigue, thin body, anorexia or refusal to eat.

At this time, chestnut kernels can be steamed and boiled, ground into powder and made into cakes, which are suitable for children who eat less, are thin and have frequent diarrhea, to increase their appetite, astringe diarrhea and regulate the stomach. Chestnut porridge made with chestnuts and glutinous rice is suitable for all ages. It can be used for the recovery of chronic diarrhea patients caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and is also suitable for long-term treatment of poor appetite and qi deficiency and fatigue caused by functional degeneration in the elderly.

Therapeutic recipe: Chestnut stewed black-bone chicken

In late autumn and early winter, I would like to provide you with a dietary recipe that nourishes both the lungs and kidneys using chestnuts and black-bone chicken as ingredients: black-bone chicken stewed with chestnuts.

Ingredients: 10 fresh chestnuts and a black-bone hen.

Method: Shell the fresh chestnuts and set aside the kernels. Remove the feathers from the black-bone chicken, remove the internal organs, wash and dry. Put the black-bone chicken and chestnut kernels into a sand pot, add water to cover the chicken and chestnuts, put a piece of ginger into the water, cover and simmer for 2 hours. Remove from the pot and add a small amount of salt, preferably without MSG, and serve.

Efficacy: Black-bone chicken, sweet and mild, enters the lungs and kidneys, nourishes yin and replenishes qi, and can nourish both the lungs and kidneys. Chestnuts, nourish the kidneys and strengthen the tendons.

Eating these two foods together can nourish the lungs in autumn and prepare for kidney nourishment in winter.