Water Chestnut (Trapa natans)
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Trapa natans · Plant
1
Indications
2
With studies in people
Cautions
May affect blood glucose; caution with diabetes medications; generally safe in food amounts; limited safety data for medicinal use.
Indications
What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Water Chestnut for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.
Inflammation Syndrome
TCM actions
What the catalogue says Water Chestnut does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.
Benefit AntioxidantBenefit DigestiveBenefit Immune
In the literature
PubMed records whose title or abstract names Trapa natans and the indication, and how many of those are indexed as studies in people. A record names the two together; it does not show that one treats the other, and most are laboratory or animal work.
- Benefit Antioxidant6 records, 1 in people
- Benefit Digestive2 records
- Benefit Immune2 records
- Inflammation Syndrome4 records, 1 in people