Is a leech a leech? Actually, I don't know. Yesterday, yes, yesterday morning, I asked Ms. Liu Jinluan, a Chinese medicine practitioner, and she said yes.

I have a feeling of oppression in my right upper abdomen. Originally, I wanted to do a CT or something in Jiaxing Second Hospital, but I didn't have much time, so I came to the moxibustion hall.

Dr. Liu, an old acquaintance, asked me if my stomach was upset again. I said that my right upper abdomen felt oppressive, and occasionally it hurt a little. She said to have a look, feel the pulse first, and then press the stomach and liver area, saying that there is no big problem.

I was relieved to hear that there was nothing serious. What should I do? She said that liver qi was uncomfortable in spring, so she should prescribe some Chinese medicine.

I said it was the only way, so she began to write a lot of prescriptions, such as bergamot, licorice and so on, and later said to add another leech, so I asked, is leech a leech?

She said, yes, it's leeches.

I said to myself, this is revenge!

I remember I was about eighty or ninety years old when I was a child. There were many leeches by the pond at that time. Somehow, they got into my feet and legs.

The worst time was when I came back from school, it was raining, and I was still wearing rubber shoes. As a result, grasshoppers got into my ankles in rubber shoes, more than one or two!

I still don't understand how such a big leech can get into the skin unnoticed. I'm afraid to think about it now. It is inconceivable that anyone dares to eat.

I want to eat it today! But I can't taste it.

Leech is a common name for leech, but sometimes other leeches are also called leeches. In some areas, the tradition of eating leeches is very popular. In fact, it is to blanch leeches, fry them, or cook them directly. Rumors taste good.

Leeches generally live in water and feed on biological blood or body fluids. Some species have certain medicinal value, and there are leech farmers in many places in China. Put the leech seedlings into the pond and set an escape net around the pond. Feed leeches with fresh meat or live fish bought in the market. When you throw them into the pond, a large number of leeches will smell them. When leeches grow to a certain shape, leech farmers will take them out and blanch them with boiling water, and then dry them into dried leeches. Dried leech is a medicinal material. In medicine, people also use hirudin in leeches to make the blood of wounds not coagulate.

A leech.

But leeches do not always live in water. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, some bloodsucking leeches are called "leeches". They live in leaves, grasslands, rocks and other places in the jungle, waiting for passing animals all the time. Once a live animal passes by, they will try to climb up and suck blood. It won't leave until it sucks blood, and then the blood from the wound will flow for a certain time without coagulation.

Having said that, don't catch the leeches yourself.

Seeing the word "leech", I can't help but think of those years when I was scarred by leeches, and I still have a lingering fear. In the past, water sources in rural areas were rarely polluted and the water quality was very good. Rivers, gullies, ponds and rice fields are simply paradise for aquatic animals, and "blood-sucking" leeches are one of them. When I was a child, we always liked to play with water or touch snails in the river ditch in summer. Almost every time, our friends are bitten by leeches. Sometimes the leeches haven't sucked enough blood. No matter how we pull them with our hands or scrape them with twigs, we can only let our friends pee on the leeches before they let go. Later, the production team implemented the system of "dividing fields into households". On weekends, I occasionally pull weeds in rice fields with my parents. After staying in the field for a while, five or six large and small leeches crawled on my feet ... I can't describe my inner collapse and fear in words!

In fact, leeches are leeches, leeches are common names, leeches are common names.

Leech is a kind of cold-blooded annelid, which is widely distributed and has many kinds. There are more than 500 species in the world, and there are nearly 2 orders, 8 families and 33 genera in China 100 species. Common ones are as follows. 1. Japanese leech

, also known as medical leech. Living in paddy fields and swamps, feeding on human, livestock, aquatic animals and other blood, its blood intake can reach 6 times its body size. Medical leeches are agile and have strong regeneration ability. If it is cut off and put into water, it can regenerate a new body from the broken part. 2. Niu Fei leech, also known as Mani quasi-medical leech, is usually called Phnom Penh leech. Living in ditches or ponds, it mainly sucks the blood of people and animals, mainly vertebrates. Philippine leech has high nutritional value and is rich in hirudin. Clinically, it has the functions of anticoagulation, thrombolysis, anti-platelet aggregation, reducing blood lipid and improving blood circulation, and has no obvious toxic and side effects. It is a kind of medicinal animal with great development potential. 3. Wide-bodied golden leech, which lives in paddy fields, rivers and lakes. Its body is long, slightly spindle-shaped, with small front sucker and underdeveloped jaw teeth. It does not suck blood, but feeds on plankton, small insects, mollusk larvae and muddy humus in the water.

4. Camptotheca acuminata leech, also known as leech, brown leech, leech, turtle, etc. The body of the leech is slender and slightly smaller than that of the leech. Its diet is miscellaneous, feeding on water worms and insect larvae, but it likes to suck cow blood, so it is named "cow turtle" and "cow leech".

As for the taste of leeches, is it delicious?

As a veteran foodie, if I mean using leeches as ingredients to make dishes, I am deeply ashamed-I have never eaten them and have no courage to taste them! I have never seen friends or relatives eat it. However, according to an article on the Internet, Gypsies in India suffer from leech disease, so they eat leeches in curry, and "curry leeches" have become a local specialty. There is also an article on the Internet that people in a certain place in Guangdong like to cut open leeches and clean them, then blanch them until they are cooked, and then fry them with Chili and garlic ... I don't know if these rumors are true or not, even if they are true, I think they are just a gimmick for a farm or enterprise to attract people's attention! From the appearance, the leeches in cooking should be broad-bodied golden leeches, which do not suck human and animal blood and have relatively thick meat. But no matter how delicious the food is, I will feel queasy, let alone eat it! However, leech is a traditional special medicinal aquatic animal in China, which has extremely high medicinal value. After drying in the sun, slicing or making into powder, it can be used as an expensive Chinese herbal medicine for treating diseases or dietotherapy. Some patients use leech powder and other ingredients, herbs, etc. Cook porridge or take it (according to the doctor's advice), and some patients slice leeches and soak them in yellow wine for external use (with the effect of expelling wind, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals). At present, living leeches (mostly leeches) are popular in some places in Guangxi to treat diseases by sucking blood in vitro, that is, living leeches with peristaltic function are adsorbed on the neck, back, feet or diseased parts of patients to suck the blood of patients, so as to achieve the therapeutic effect of eliminating carbuncle and treating erysipelas. This leech blood-sucking therapy has been recorded in ancient medicine, and there are also cases of using this therapy to relieve postoperative congestion abroad. However, there are many bacteria in leeches. If leeches are allowed to suck blood for a long time, patients will inevitably face the risk of infection or anemia.

Eat, the leeches can still live when burned to ashes, and there are leeches everywhere in your body.

Leeches can be eaten. Leeches are not allowed to eat. Because it tastes bad.

Xiao Wei likes to eat alone, so leave us southerners out of it.

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