Chinese medicine nutritional science, chestnut has the spleen and qi, tonifying the kidney, strong tendons, stop bleeding and other effects, can be boiled, fried and eaten.
Chestnut is flat in nature, sweet and slightly salty in flavor, and belongs to the spleen meridian and kidney meridian. It has the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the tendons, invigorating the spleen and benefiting the qi, stopping bleeding, and promoting blood circulation to eliminate swelling. It can be used for spleen deficiency and diarrhea, regurgitation and vomiting, sore feet and knees, bruises and swelling pain, scrofula (mainly refers to cervical lymph node tuberculosis), vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in stools and so on.
Chestnuts are commonly eaten fried or cooked porridge, note that food accumulation (food indigestion and stagnation in the stomach) stagnant people should not eat.
Chestnut treatment of disease efficacy is weak, can not replace the drug. If you have symptoms such as spleen and kidney deficiency, treatment should be carried out under the guidance of a physician.