Did you know that chestnuts contain up to 70 percent starch, 11 per cent protein, and around 7 percent fat? Chestnuts are also rich in vitamins, minerals, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and vitamins C, B1, and carotene—all of which it has more of than most foods.
Chinese medicine thinks that chestnuts are sweet in taste, warm in nature, nourishing to the stomach, and strengthening to the spleen and kidneys.
Chestnuts eaten raw can stop vomiting [of] blood, nose bleeding, blood in the stool, and other blood diseases.
According to the renowned Chinese medical doctor, Li Shizhen, from the Ming Dynasty, who made in-depth studies on chestnuts: “People who have cold inside and heavy diarrhea, let them eat 20 to 30 roasted chestnuts. The disease will be healed.” They are also good for a weak spleen, a weak stomach, or kidney deficiencies.
Modern medical research says chestnuts can prevent hypertension and hardening of the arteries.
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