Medicinal Properties of Chestnut

Chestnut, a speciality of Korea, is good for health as it contains lots of nutritive elements like starch, sugar, protein, oil and vitamins. You can eat chestnuts raw, roast or boiled, and make various foods with them.

First, there is a chestnut porridge. To make the porridge, prepare 100 grams of chestnuts, polished rice and hulled millet respectively and then make the porridge with them. When you often eat the porridge it helps treat lumbago and strengthen weak limbs.

Next, you can make chestnut pork soup. Prepare 500 grams of lean pork and 250 grams of chestnuts, and then make the soup with them.

The soup is good for the treatment of chronic bronchitis. And you can make chestnut and jujube pork soup. It needs 10 grams of fresh chestnuts, four red jujubes and a proper quantity of lean pork.

The soup is effective in treating coughing caused by poor vitality and asthma.

Besides, if you eat 30 or 60 grams of chestnuts raw three times a day, it helps treat chronic laryngitis. In particular, chestnuts are good for the elderly, who usually have pains in the waist and legs, and are often afflicted with coronary artery diseases. Eating chestnuts can prevent the diseases. If the elderly eat 30 grams of roast chestnuts in the morning and evening, they can treat their bed-wetting.