The efficacy and effects of horseshoe

March 31, 2023
Water chestnut is commonly known as horseshoe because it is shaped like a horse's hoof. It is also known as ground chestnut because of its similarity in efficacy to chestnuts, and depending on the region, water chestnut can also be called water taro and red ciguatera. Water chestnut is cold and slippery, sweet and cool, rich in starch, protein, sugar, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamins and other nutrients. What are the effects and functions of water chestnut?

Clearing heat and resolving phlegm

Water chestnut is cold in nature and can clear lung heat. It is also rich in water and mucus, which has the effect of moistening the lung and resolving phlegm, and can be used in the dietary treatment of cough with lung heat, coughing and spitting yellow mucus and pus phlegm, as well as heat illness and fluid injury.

Quenching thirst

Water chestnut is white, tender and juicy, which is good for quenching thirst, clearing chest congestion and relieving thirst from fever.

Diuretic and detoxification

Drinking water chestnut decoction can diuretic and detoxification, which has a certain effect on urinary dripping and astringent pain, and is a good food for patients with urinary tract infection. Since water chestnut is cold and slippery, it also has diuretic and blood cooling effects and detoxification.

Rectify bowel movement

Water chestnut is rich in crude protein and starch to promote colon peristalsis, and has the effect of slippery bowel and laxative, can be used to treat constipation and other symptoms.

Eliminate food stagnation

Water chestnut is cold and sweet in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the function of clearing heat, promoting the production of body fluid, moistening the lung and resolving phlegm, eliminating food accumulation and opening the stomach.

Antibacterial and antibacterial

Water chestnut contains water chestnut Ying, which has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus aeruginosa and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and can be used to prevent cold and flu infection; at the same time, water chestnut has good therapeutic effect on septic infection, tonsillitis, pneumonia, septicemia and urinary tract infection.
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