How to eat Cishi

People who have some knowledge of health preservation should know that Cishi is actually an aquatic plant that can be eaten raw or used as a side dish to make a health-preserving meal. It is recorded in traditional Chinese medicine that Cishi can help regulate the spleen, stomach and kidneys and replenish a large amount of nutrients. People who often suffer from diarrhea and weak spleen and stomach can eat it often for good health-preserving effects. There are many health-preserving meals that can be made with Cishi. Making it into paste or porridge with yam, walnuts, and lentils are all good choices.

The efficacy and function of Gorgon Fruit

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dried Gorgon fruit is sweet, astringent and flat in nature, and enters the spleen and kidney meridians. Its main functions are to tonify the spleen and stop diarrhea, and to consolidate the kidneys and astringe semen.

"It strengthens the essence and qi, makes the ears and eyes sharp, long-term consumption makes the body light and not hungry, and resists aging like a god." This sentence considers Gorgon fruit to be a top-grade tonic, and this sentence comes from "Shennong's Herbal Classic".

The Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Glutinous rice and dried gorgon fruit can be used to make porridge, which can improve the essence and will, sharpen the ears and eyes, open up the five internal organs, and improve the complexion." The Southern Yunnan Materia Medica states: Dried gorgon fruit can "quench thirst and benefit the kidneys, treat incontinence, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, and vaginal discharge."

How to eat Gorgon fruit?

1. Gorgon Fruit Porridge: Stir-fry 50 grams of Gorgon Fruit and 100 grams of glutinous rice, cook into porridge and eat. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stopping diarrhea, strengthening the kidney and astringing the semen, and improving hearing and eyesight.

2. Gorgon fruit and yam paste: 500 grams of Gorgon fruit, 500 grams of yam, and 250 grams of lotus seed meat, fry them separately until they turn yellow, grind them into powder together, add 250 grams of lotus root powder, mix well into powder, take any amount each time, add appropriate amount of white sugar, mix into a paste and eat, 1 to 3 times a day, can cure diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, especially for those with long-term diarrhea.

3. Gorgon fruit and walnut paste: 30 grams of Gorgon fruit powder, 15 grams of walnut meat (crushed), 7 red dates (pitted). First, add cold water to the Gorgon fruit powder to make a paste, add boiling water and stir, then add walnut meat and red date meat, cook until it becomes a paste, add sugar and mix in. Take it at any time for several weeks. It can cure symptoms such as weak kidney qi, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, and soreness of the waist and legs. (Note: If you have urethral pain and a feeling of incomplete urination, it is due to damp heat in the bladder. Do not take this medicine.)

4. Gorgon fruit and lentil porridge: stir-fry 30 grams of Gorgon fruit, 20 grams of stir-fry lentils, 10 red dates, 100 grams of glutinous rice, add water and cook into porridge. It is effective for people with weak spleen and stomach and loose stools or diarrhea.

How much water chestnut is suitable to eat a day?

In fact, Gorgon fruit does not have to be taken every day. If patients need to take it for a long time, 50 grams is enough. If you have a bad spleen and stomach, it is best not to take it every day or take a large amount at one time. Because whether Gorgon fruit is eaten raw or cooked, it is best not to eat too much at one time, otherwise it will be difficult to digest. "Eating too much raw food will cause cold wind, while eating too much cooked food is not good for the spleen and stomach and is difficult to digest. Children who eat too much will not grow well." People who usually have symptoms of abdominal distension should avoid eating cooked food.