The efficacy and therapeutic effects of chestnuts

Although chestnuts are not good-looking and have hard shells that are difficult to open, they are very delicious. Let's learn more about them.

It nourishes the stomach and spleen, nourishes the kidney and strengthens the tendons, activates blood circulation and stops bleeding. It is mainly used to treat nausea, diarrhea, dysentery, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in the stool, tendon injury, fracture, bruises, pain, scrofula and other symptoms.

1. Replenishing Qi and Strengthening the Spleen, Strengthening the Stomach and Thickening the Intestines Chestnuts are a type of dried fruit with a high carbohydrate content, which can provide the human body with more heat energy and help fat metabolism. They ensure the basic nutritional supply of the body and are known as "iron crops" and "woody grains". They have the effects of replenishing Qi and strengthening the spleen, and thickening the stomach and intestines.
2. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. Chestnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, multiple vitamins and minerals, which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis, and are beneficial to human health.
3. Strengthen muscles and bones, delay aging. Chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles. It can prevent and treat osteoporosis, sore waist and legs, muscle pain, fatigue, etc., delay human aging, and is an ideal health fruit for the elderly.
4. Eat chestnuts raw, 5 to 8 pieces a day. It is suitable for people who suffer from vomiting blood or bloody stools.
5. Eating 2 raw chestnuts in the morning and evening is good for elderly people with kidney deficiency and frequent urination. Boiling 10 chestnuts with pig kidney, coix seed and rice into porridge can treat waist and leg weakness caused by general kidney deficiency.
Chestnuts are rich in nutrients. Every 100 grams of chestnuts contains 62-70 grams of sugar and starch, 5.1-10.7 grams of protein, 2-7.4 grams of fat, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin PP and inorganic salts. Modern medicine believes that the unsaturated fatty acids and multiple vitamins contained in chestnuts have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. If the elderly eat chestnuts regularly, they can achieve the purpose of anti-aging and longevity.
Chestnut is also a good medicine for nourishing and curing diseases. According to traditional Chinese medicine, chestnut is sweet and warm in nature, and has the effects of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the kidney, strengthening the waist, strengthening the tendons, promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding and reducing swelling. It is suitable for soreness of waist and knees, weak waist and feet, frequent urination caused by kidney deficiency, chronic diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, traumatic fractures, blood stasis and swelling, skin sores and tendon and bone pain. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "the kidney governs the bones, and the waist is the home of the kidney." Therefore, symptoms such as soreness of waist and legs are mainly caused by kidney deficiency. Chestnut is the fruit of the kidney, which can benefit the kidney, and eating it is naturally effective. The ancients used chestnuts to treat diseases and nourish in many ways. Use 30 grams of chestnuts, add water and cook, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and take it once before going to bed every night. It is effective for physical weakness after illness, soreness and weakness of limbs; it is used to replenish kidney qi and strengthen tendons and bones. Chestnuts and rice can be used in appropriate amounts to cook porridge, add white sugar and eat once a day. Elderly people with kidney deficiency, backache and weak legs can eat 7 dried chestnuts every morning and evening, chew them into pulp and swallow them; you can also use 30 grams of fresh chestnuts, simmer them over a fire and eat them once a day in the morning and evening. To treat injuries from falls, congestion and swelling, you can peel the raw chestnuts, grind the meat into a paste, and apply it to the affected area.
Chestnuts are difficult to digest when eaten raw, and they can easily cause gas stagnation when eaten cooked, so it is not advisable to eat too much at one time; people with spleen deficiency, indigestion, or severe fever should not eat chestnuts. In addition, chestnuts must be eaten raw to treat diseases. The method introduced by Li Shizhen is: "Put raw chestnuts in a bag, hang them up to air dry, eat more than ten chestnuts every morning, and then eat pig kidney porridge to help. You will be strong in the long run." When eating, chew them carefully, without any residue, and turn them into slurry. Swallow them bit by bit to achieve the effect.
Introduction to Chestnut
[Nature and flavor and meridians entered] Warm in nature, sweet and mild in taste; enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.
[Nutritional ingredients] Every 100 grams contains 5.7 grams of protein, 2 grams of fat, 40-45 grams of carbohydrates, and 25 grams of starch. The vitamin content of raw chestnuts can be as high as 40-60 mg, and the vitamin content of cooked chestnuts is about 25 mg. Chestnuts also contain inorganic salts such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, as well as carotene, B vitamins and other ingredients.
1. The rich unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals contained in chestnuts can prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases. It is a good tonic for anti-aging and longevity.
2. Chestnuts contain riboflavin. Eating chestnuts regularly is beneficial for children's mouth sores and adults' oral ulcers.
3. Chestnut is a kind of dried fruit with high carbohydrate content. It can provide more heat energy to the human body and help fat metabolism. It has the effect of invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, and nourishing the stomach and intestines.
4. Chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles. It can prevent and treat osteoporosis, sore waist and legs, muscle pain, fatigue, etc., delay human aging, and is an ideal health fruit for the elderly.
【Healthy Recipes】
1. Chestnut cake 200g chestnuts, 500g glutinous rice flour, 50g sugar, 10g melon seeds and pine nuts. Shell the chestnuts, boil them in water until they are very soft, add glutinous rice flour and sugar, knead them evenly, steam them in a hot steamer over high heat, and sprinkle melon seeds and pine nuts on top when they are out of the steamer. This cake is sweet, sticky and soft, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen, replenishing qi and stomach, strengthening tendons and bones, and replenishing deficiency. It is suitable for the elderly, the weak, sore waist and knees, and loss of appetite.
2. Chestnut paste 500g chestnuts, appropriate amount of sugar. Peel the chestnuts, dry and grind into powder. Take appropriate amount of chestnut powder, add water and cook until paste, then add sugar. Chestnut paste has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, thickening the intestines, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on diarrhea in children.
3. Chestnut Yokan 250g chestnuts, 1000g red beans and sugar, 500g mutton, 40g jelly powder. Wash the chestnuts, boil them slightly, remove the skin, and then put them into the pot to cook; soak the red beans in water and cook them until they are soft, rub off the bean skin and sieve them, then filter out the water with gauze to make bean paste; boil the water, add the jelly powder and boil it, then add sugar, filter out the residue after boiling, and cook it with the bean paste, stirring while cooking, until the bean paste becomes sticky; first pour half of the bean paste into the square plate, then put the cooked chestnuts on it, pour the other half of the bean paste on the chestnuts, wait for it to solidify, and cut it into small rectangular cubes. This soup has the effect of replenishing qi and strengthening the spleen, dispersing blood and stopping bleeding. It is suitable for spleen deficiency diarrhea, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in the stool and other symptoms. It can strengthen the body for those who are not sick.
4. Chestnuts and Chinese Cabbage 300g raw chestnuts, 500g Chinese cabbage, appropriate amounts of sugar, wet starch, and peanut oil. Boil the chestnuts until half cooked, remove them, peel off the shells, and cut them in half; wash the Chinese cabbage and cut them into long strips; heat peanut oil in the pot, fry the chestnuts briefly, remove them and drain the oil; leave a little bottom oil in the pot and heat it, fry the cabbage briefly, add the chestnuts, add water, soy sauce, refined salt, and white sugar, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until cooked, thicken with wet starch, remove from the pot and serve. This dish has the effects of tonifying the spleen, benefiting the kidneys, and stopping bleeding. It is suitable for symptoms such as weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite and bloody stools, fatigue, kidney deficiency, weak waist and knees, bloody stools, and scurvy.
【Notes】
1. Chestnuts are "extremely difficult to digest when raw, and easily cause gas stagnation when cooked." People with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion should not eat too much.
2. Fresh chestnuts are easy to deteriorate and rot. Eating moldy chestnuts can cause poisoning, so spoiled chestnuts should not be eaten.
3. People with weak spleen and stomach, poor digestion or rheumatism should not eat it.
【Suitable for】General population can eat
1. Suitable for the elderly with kidney deficiency, especially for the middle-aged and elderly people with back pain, weak legs and feet, and frequent urination; suitable for the elderly with bronchitis, cough and asthma, and internal cold diarrhea;
2. Diabetics should avoid eating it; infants, young children, people with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, and people with rheumatism should not eat too much.
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