Nanhua Walnuts

Nanhua Walnuts

　　Walnuts are an excellent food remedy. Whether used in combination with medicine or eaten raw, boiled, coated in sugar, or cooked in dishes, they offer multiple health benefits such as enriching blood and qi, nourishing kidney essence, relieving cough and wheezing, moistening dryness, and improving bowel movement. There are many ways to prepare walnuts—boiling them in a proper amount of salted water, then drinking the water and eating the residue can help treat kidney deficiency-induced back pain, seminal emission, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus, and frequent urination. Boiling walnuts together with coix seeds and chestnuts to make congee can help relieve frequent urination, seminal emission, loose stools, and diarrhea before dawn. Making sugar-coated treats with walnuts, sesame, and lotus seeds can nourish the heart and improve brain function, as well as treat night sweats. Eating raw walnuts along with longan flesh and hawthorn can enhance heart function. Walnuts are also widely used in treating conditions such as neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema, and stomachache.