Medicine and food words chestnuts

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Chestnut, known as "the king of dried fruit. It not only rich in starch, can be used to cure hunger, and rich nutrition, is the tonic kidney strong sun wen. Tang dynasty renowned medical sun simiao says chestnuts as "the fruit of the kidney. Chestnut have nourishes the spleen, the kidney, strong, waist, strong gluten, blood circulation, etc DuoZhong efficacy. Because of the deficiency of the kidney is especially suitable for is the result of lumbar debility, waist and feet, urinate frequency more things and spleen deficiency of the kidney cold cause of disease such as chronic diarrhea.

        The song dynasty writer su zhe old chestnut healed their eat waist-leg disease, he therefore chanting songs disppeared a: "old to add the waist and feet disease, mountain take the party members chestnut old customers, for said, three pharynx xu morningside late charge white jade pulp."

        According to modern nutritionists analysis, every 100 grams chestnuts sugar and starch of 70 grams, protein 8.5 g and 5.6 grams of fat, also contain vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin P and inorganic salt. Chestnut contains unsaturated fat and DuoZhong vitamin, to high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis and other diseases, and have a good prevention and treatment effect. Old people often eat chestnuts, can achieve resist aging, prolong life purpose.

        But, chestnut although can be medicine and food, but not eat more: raw to digest, cooked food and gas will lag, so a glutton shoulds not be too much. LiShiZhen advocate food method can be for reference: "to the bag ChengSheng chestnut, suspension airing, every morning to eat more than 10 star, or with chestnuts and pig kidney cooking porridge, long service will be healthy."

        Our country folk to sort out a lot of complaints about chestnut method, the following a few introduce.

        Chestnut soup lean lean 120 g chestnuts, pig lean lean 500 grams, yam 60 g, 1 slice dried tangerine or orange peel. Chestnuts to shell, with boiled water ironed, and then took off his coat. The yam, dried tangerine or orange peel, lean lean clean. Then four pour into the pot, add water right amount, soft fire pot 3 hours, the food put a little salt. This product fill gas spleen, temperature bowel diarrhoea.

        Chestnut chicken feet soup chicken feet only 10, 500 grams lean lean, 90 g chestnuts, walnuts meat 60 g, dried tangerine or orange peel to 10 grams. Will the above clean, add some water, soft fire slow heat 3 hours. This product kidney strong gluten, enriching qi, the treatment of kidney deficiency, waist knees weak, giddy, the evening frequency, the spleen deficiency diarrhea disease such as long, and the result is good.

        Chestnut soup sparrows only 12 finches meat, 30 g chestnuts, water chestnut powder 15 grams, and the green Onions 2 root. The sparrow to hair and the internal organs, and other clean, in the pot to cook together, soft fire pot 2 hours, can be eaten. The benefit of kidney function of spleen, tonify deficiency help Yang, be helpful for sexual function. Particularly suitable for older body is weak, or weak after illness, and diabetes patients. (MeiChengDing)