How to boil water chestnuts

Water chestnut is a kind of fruit with delicious and crisp taste. It can also be used for cooking. Many people also use water chestnut to make desserts, soups or some pastries. The role of water chestnut is very wide, because the combination of water chestnut can relieve greasiness and achieve a refreshing effect at the same time. Water chestnut can be boiled with sugarcane to drink the water, which can not only nourish the stomach, but also nourish yin and moisten the throat, help clear away heat and detoxify, and alleviate many problems.

The efficacy of boiling water with water chestnuts and sugar cane

Sugarcane and water chestnut water has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, harmonizing the stomach and stopping vomiting, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.

Clearing away heat and reducing fire

Water chestnuts and sugarcane are both cold foods with sweet taste. Eating cold foods can remove the dryness and heat in the body, relieve the symptoms of getting a sore throat caused by the dryness and heat, and have the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire. Therefore, eating water chestnuts and sugarcane boiled in water can clear away heat and reduce fire.

Produce body fluids to quench thirst

Water chestnuts and sugarcane are rich in water, which can replenish water. Sugarcane and water chestnuts are cold in nature, which can remove dry mouth and tongue caused by dryness and heat. Therefore, drinking water boiled with water chestnuts and sugarcane has the effect of promoting salivation and quenching thirst.

Moisturizes the lungs and relieves dryness

Water chestnuts are cold in nature, sweet in taste, and enter the lung and stomach meridians. Sugarcane is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. Both enter the lung meridian, so drinking water boiled with water chestnuts and sugarcane can directly act on the lungs. The cold nature of the water chestnuts can remove lung dryness, and the sweet taste has a nourishing effect. Therefore, drinking water boiled with water chestnuts and sugarcane can moisten the lungs and remove dryness.

Improves appetite

The carbohydrates contained in sugarcane and water chestnuts can stimulate the secretion of saliva in the mouth and increase appetite, while the fruit acid they contain can help stomach acid digest food. In addition, both water chestnuts and sugarcane enter the stomach meridian and can nourish the stomach. Therefore, drinking water boiled with water chestnuts and sugarcane can increase appetite.

Imperata root, bamboo sugarcane, radish, water chestnut water

raw material:

2 taels of fresh Imperata root, half a catty of bamboo sugarcane, 1 carrot, and half a catty of water chestnuts (if you like it sweeter, you can add 1 piece of rock sugar or a few candied dates).

1. Wash all the materials. You can peel the water chestnuts. If you don't want to peel them, brush them clean with a brush.

2. Cut the bamboo cane into small pieces, break the imperata root into small sections, dice the carrot with a rolling knife, and cut the water chestnut into two halves;

3. Add 6 bowls of water to all the ingredients, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over medium-low heat for 50 minutes.

4. Drink more soups that can clear away heat and moisten the lungs, reduce internal heat and dryness. You don’t have to worry about eating too many melon seeds.

2. Carrot and water chestnut water

1. Materials needed: 6 water chestnuts, 1 carrot

2. Cut carrots into small pieces

3. Cut the water chestnut into small pieces

4. Put carrots and water chestnuts into the pot and fill it with water

5. After boiling, turn to medium heat and cook for another 10 minutes

6. Pour it out and drink it