Water chestnuts are very popular in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and are an essential ingredient in every household. This is because the planting area of water chestnuts in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions is large, making it an important local crop. Water chestnuts have very high nutritional value, rich in starch, and can supplement body energy and nutrition after eating. Let’s take a detailed look at the explanation of the effects of water chestnuts below.

Water chestnuts are a fruit of the Trapa genus, Trapa family. Also known as waist chestnuts, water chestnuts, and water chestnuts, they are sweet, cool, and non-toxic, and are the fruit of the annual aquatic herb Trapa. The skin of water chestnuts is crisp and the meat is delicious, which can be eaten after steaming and peeling, or can be cooked into porridge. Water chestnuts are rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids, and various vitamins and trace elements. They have the effects of diuretic, lactogenic, thirst-quenching, and alcohol detoxification.

Main Effects

Suitable for: Suitable for general population.

Nutritional Properties: Water chestnuts are sweet, astringent, and cool in nature;

8. Tonify the spleen and benefit the qi, strengthen the thighs and knees, and invigorate the qi.

7. Anti-cancer, the alcohol extract of water chestnuts has inhibitory effects on the degeneration of cancer cells and tissue proliferation.

6. Weight loss, water chestnuts have diuretic, lactogenic, and alcohol detoxifying properties, making them an auxiliary food for weight loss.

4. Alleviate skin diseases, assist in the treatment of infantile scalp sores, facial and neck scalded sores, skin warts, and various other skin diseases.

In addition to water chestnuts, they can calm the passions of both men and women. ‘The Materia Medica of Food Therapy’ points out: ‘All fruits in water, this thing is the most cold, harming the yang, causing the jing to wither and decay.’

Water chestnuts are beneficial for the elderly to eat regularly. According to recent pharmacological experiments, water chestnuts have certain anti-cancer effects. They can be used to prevent and treat esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, uterine cancer, and other types of cancer.

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