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Water chestnuts can be eaten as a fruit or cooked as vegetables. The functions of water chestnuts are to prevent acute infectious diseases, clear away heat and purge fire, cool blood and detoxify, diuretic and expectorant, eliminate food and swelling, regulate hemorrhoids or dysentery and bloody stools. In addition, water chestnuts contain an antiviral substance that can inhibit meningitis and influenza viruses, and can be used to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis and influenza.