The efficacy and function of chestnut shell

We are all familiar with chestnut shells. Chestnut shells are not only edible but also have very high medicinal effects. Eating chestnut shells regularly can play a very good health-preserving and health-care role.

[Source] It is the exocarp of chestnut , a plant of the Fagaceae family.

【Nature and flavor】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "sweet and astringent, neutral, non-toxic."

【Functions and indications】 Treats nausea, epistaxis, and bloody stool.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, grind into powder or make into pills.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating diaphragmatic qi: calcine the black shell of chestnut, add equal parts of it to the bran from pounding rice, and make honey pills the size of tung nuts. Take 30 pills on each empty stomach. (Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica")

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Dietary Materia Medica". "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplement": Chestnut shell is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" to treat nausea, thirst, and bloody diarrhea, and nothing else. It is not known that it can counteract the power of ginseng, which is better than radish. "Yang Chunya's Experience Prescription" says to boil ginseng and chestnut shells into a soup and drink it.

The above is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of chestnut shells. Your choice should be based on your own needs, so that it will not harm your body and can achieve a good effect in improving the disease.