Snow clam, scientific name "Northeast forest frog", is a valuable frog amphibian, growing in the Changbai Mountain range, small Xing'anling most of the Zhang Guangcai Ling hinterland area to wild fruits and insects for food, because of its hibernation in the cold winter can be up to five months long, so the name of "snow clams "
Snow Clam
The snow clam has a very traditional name, called the "Northeast forest frog", or forest frog for short. Forest frogs look like a giant frog, growing in the Xiaoxing'anling and Changbai Mountain broad-leaved forests and mixed coniferous forests, and the bear's paw, the monkey's head, and the flying dragon and the Northeast "four mountain treasures". To wild fruits and insects for food.
Each forest frog has a capsule in its stomach, like cream and oil, which stores energy, and in winter, when it can't find anything to eat in the snow, the frogs rely on the capsule in their stomachs to maintain their lives, and this living capsule is the oviducts of the forest frogs.
The Chinese People's **** and State Pharmacopoeia records: the efficacy of forest frog oil is "tonifying the kidney and essence, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. Used for physical weakness, post-disease disorders, mental deficiency, palpitations and insomnia, night sweats, coughing up blood". It is salty and flat in nature, not dry and not hot, rich in protein, amino acids, a variety of trace elements and a small amount of hormones that are beneficial to the human body.
Snow clams will release a large amount of collagen protein, amino acids and nucleic acids after sufficient foaming. It can promote the metabolism of skin tissues, prevent skin brown pigmentation, reduce skin aging, and play a role in skin care and beauty.